Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.’s G650ER ultra long-range business jet has set a new speed record with a 7,475 nm flight from Singapore’s Changi Airport to San Francisco in 13 hr. and 37 min.
Mente Group, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Aero Law Group are sponsoring a course for flight department leaders and managers called The Business of Business Aviation.
The size of the global Western civil turbine rotorcraft fleet is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 1.6% over the next 10 years, Aviation Week Network’s 2019 Helicopter Forecast says.
Three members of Oregon’s congressional delegation are urging the U.S. comptroller general to consider the impact of an “arbitrary” provision from the 2012 FAA Modernization and Reform Act that they say has jeopardized funding to rural airports across the country.
Regional airline Cape Air and express cargo carrier Mountain Air Cargo announced a pilot “pathway” program that allows pilots to transition between the two airlines to gain flight hours and experience.
Worldwide business and general aviation avionics sales totaled $2.72 billion in 2018, the largest dollar amount of avionics sales since reporting began in 2012, according to the Aircraft Electronics Association.
With the FAA’s deadline for ADS-B equipage approaching, an important goal in the business and general aviation industry is to finish the task of equipping the fleet, said Pete Bunce, General Aviation Manufacturers Association president.
Hard on the heels of Boeing making a significant investment in Aerion, one of its biggest suppliers has signed on to design the forward fuselage for the supersonic business jet developer’s Mach 1.4 aircraft, the AS2.
Airbus hopes to fly its CityAirbus electric vertical takeoff and landing urban air mobility demo aircraft in March after a series of successful ground runs.
