The Weekly of Business Aviation

Alphabet company Wing is playing down Australian media criticism of noise from its drone delivery operations as it prepares to launch its latest commercial service in Logan, south of Brisbane in Queensland.

World View Enterprises Inc. has exceeded by more than two days its goal of a 30-day demo Stratollite balloon mission for sustained navigational stratospheric flight.

ExecuJet, a division of the Luxaviation Group, plans to exit Cambridge City Airport and open a larger fixed base operation at another UK airport.

Jet Linx celebrated the opening of a 3,000-sq.-ft. dedicated private terminal for members at Teterboro Airport, New Jersey, serving the New York City market.

The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Fokker Services B.V. Model F28 Mark 0070 and 0100 airplanes.

Baines Simmons, the consulting and training division of Air Partner, is offering aviation safety training courses in Amsterdam for the first time.

Tonit Calaway has been appointed to the board of directors of Astronics Corp.

Avflight has begun construction of a new FBO and hangar on a five-acre leased parcel at Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) plans to hold a public board meeting on Dec. 10 to determine the probable cause of a fatal doors-off helicopter crash.

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Jet Support Services has acquired Tracware, a maintenance, repair and overhaul software provider.

Jet Aviation has partnered with Amira Air, a Vienna, Austria-based aircraft operator, to add a Global Express to its fleet in EMEA.

Gulfstream is reducing jobs as it realigns its business, but it is too soon to say how many positions will be impacted, a spokeswoman said.

Former NASA aeronautics head Jaiwon Shin has been appointed to lead South Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor Group’s new Urban Air Mobility (UAM) division.

Farnborough Airport has been purchased by infrastructure specialists Macquarie in a surprise deal.

The long-awaited and now FAA-type certified super-midsize Citation Longitude is entering a crowded market niche, but its prospects appear bright because NetJets intends to buy up to 175 aircraft.

Thales and StandardAero have signed a long-term partnership agreement to certify and distribute Thales’ TopMax wearable head-up display (HUD) for business aviation aircraft, the companies announced Sept. 26.

NASA has completed loads testing on the cruise-optimized wing for the X-57 Maxwell electric propulsion demonstrator.

British unmanned aircraft developer Blue Bear has completed the first flights of UAVs equipped with a lightweight Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) transponder.

Unmanned aircraft maker AeroVironment is losing its chief financial officer (CFO), Teresa Covington, to another private company, and is searching for a new one, but shareholders are not taking the news well.

FAA Deputy Administrator Dan Elwell has told House appropriators that all participants on the Gulfstream G500/600 flight standardization board (FSB) were properly credentialed, contradicting recent findings from an investigation by the Office of Special Counsel (OSC).

FAA Deputy Administrator Dan Elwell has told House appropriators that all participants on the Gulfstream G500/600 flight standardization board (FSB) were properly credentialed, contradicting recent findings from an investigation by the Office of Special Counsel (OSC).

Avic expects to achieve airworthiness certification next month for the AC312E helicopter while also working on a successor type, a company manager said.