FlightSafety International Unmanned Systems Training has added a specialized sUAS Civil/Government Services Remote Pilot Course to assist federal, state and local government agencies to establish a UAS program or increase the effectiveness of existing ones.
Metro Aviation, based in Shreveport, Louisiana, has taken delivery of the first Airbus EC145e helicopter produced at the Airbus assembly plant in Columbus, Mississippi.
AviationManuals has expanded its portfolio with a new Fixed Base Operations Manual designed to help managers and staff improve the professionalism, standards and safety of their operations.
Infrastructure investment banker Nexa Capital Partners has formed Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Geomatics, a business intelligence entity focused on helping industry to use geospatial data to accelerate investment in the nascent market.
Swiss company Meteomatics and TruWeather Solutions of the U.S. have formed a partnership to provide “hyperlocal” weather forecasting using data-gathering drones to support commercial drone operations.
German startup Fraundorfer Aeronautics plans to fly a next-generation autogyro demonstrator in 2020, and aims to introduce an initial two-seat production version by 2022 and a six-seat air taxi by 2025.
The push is on for aircraft owners and operators to comply with the required upgrades for automatic dependence surveillance broadcast, which goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2020.
Over the next decade, the business aviation fleet in the Middle East and Africa is expected to remain constant at nearly 1,200 aircraft, according to the Aviation Week 2019 Business Aviation Fleet & MRO Forecast.
Bombardier has pledged to invest nearly $13 million to offer more than 1,000 paid internship positions in Canada for the 2019-2020 academic year, the company announced Sept. 12.
Salaries and benefits in the business aviation industry are generally equal to or higher than other aviation segments, including the airlines, according to a 2019 compensation survey by the Canadian Business Aviation Association.
Environmental protest group Heathrow Pause plans to disrupt flights at London Heathrow Airport for at least five days starting Sept. 13 by illegally flying UAVs within the airport’s exclusion zone.
Textron Aviation has opened an aircraft parts warehouse in Australia to support regional growth of its fleet of business jets, turboprops and piston aircraft.
Leading small drone manufacturer DJI and French drone services company Delair announced a partnership on Sept.12 to provide visual data collection and analysis products for industrial applications.
The “LuxStream” service will connect with SES’ managed Ku-band satellite network to offer data speeds of up to 25 Mbps in the U.S. and 15 Mbps globally.
Mooney International has sold out of its Mooney Ovation Ultra and Acclaim Ultra aircraft until March 2020, according to Premier Aircraft Sales, a Florida-based authorized Mooney dealer.
Good requirements resolve security issues with drones, according to an executive with the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), which operates a large fleet of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) that includes DJI drones made in China.
