The Weekly of Business Aviation

UK-based maintenance provider Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) has rejected reports that it is facing a winding-up order.

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London Oxford Airport has a new tenant in its refurbished hangar, The Children’s Air Ambulance.

Titan Aviation Group has joined the Air Charter Safety Foundation, affiliating with an organization that already had 176 other member companies.

The U.S. Senate on Oct. 3 passed the bipartisan FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 by a 93-6 vote, clearing the way for the bill to be signed into law by President Donald Trump.

Western Aviation plans to open a new business aviation center.

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The Polish Medical Air Rescue has placed an order with Tecnam for three P2008JC Mk II aircraft.

Gemini Air Group of Scottsdale, Arizona, has opened a 60,000-sq.-ft. hangar at Scottsdale Airport in Arizona.

Stack.aero has launched software called CharterMetrics, which it says is industry’s first “workflow solution solving the challenges” caused by business aviation’s fragmented operational systems.

Duncan Aviation has developed six Supplemental Type Certificates for the Gogo Avance L5 system.

AviationManuals and the Air Charter Safety Action Program plan to go live with their Aviation Safety Action Program for business aviation operators.

C&L Aerospace has signed a distributor agreement with Essex Industries in St. Louis.

Jet Aviation, based in Basel, Switzerland, has acquired KLM Jet Center at the Amsterdam and Rotterdam International airports in the Netherlands.

The FAA is superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2017-14-03 for Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Sikorsky) Model S-92A helicopters.

Sean McGeough has been named Wheels Up executive vice president of sales, where he will head corporate sales.

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Mark Johnstone became CEO of Signature Flight Support on April 1. Johnstone, who joined BBA Aviation in 2008, also serves as CEO of BBA Aviation, Signature’s parent company.

Safran will be providing the turbine engine for startup Zunum Aero’s hybrid-electric small regional aircraft.

Boeing has teamed with Robotic Skies, a brokered global network of more than 160 independently-owned and operated repair stations providing MRO on commercial UAVs, including to offer supply chain management and analytics.

A new version of a small business jet concept called the Tadpole, with a teardrop-shaped fuselage that maximizes cabin volume while minimizing drag, has been wind-tunnel tested by Russian aerohydrodynamic research institute TsAGI

Aura, a recently announced private air passenger service based in Miami, is offering what it describes as “a newly crafted flying experience."

General Electric is working with Jetoptera to demonstrate the startup’s fluidic propulsion system (FPS) for vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) aircraft.

Air Plains Services is a small Kansas company with a big mission to keep older aircraft airworthy.

Virgin Atlantic Airways has completed the first commercial flight using a blend of biofuel produced from industrial waste gases.