The Weekly of Business Aviation

OneSky has acquired PrivateFly, an online booking platform for private jet charter, where it will join forces with brokerage firm SkyJet, the company said.

Flexjet is in the process of consolidating the operations of Flight Options and Flexjet onto the Flexjet certificate.

Nordam could soon resolve the lawsuit with Pratt & Whitney over the nacelles it manufactures for the Gulfstream G500 and G600 and emerge from bankruptcy in the next few months.

Bombardier Business Aircraft is making an avionics upgrade to its Learjet 75 and Learjet 70 light aircraft with the installation of the Garmin G5000 avionics suite.

Los Angeles-based Planet Nine Private Air has added a second Dassault Falcon 7X to its charter fleet.

Saudi Arabia will require 8,800 pilots and 11,700 technicians by 2024, according to the National Aviation Academy (NAA).

With just 11 working days remaining for the U.S. Congress to pass legislation reauthorizing the FAA, industry watchers are expecting the most likely path forward to be another short-term extension that would last through the end of the year.

An Airbus spinoff company has been contracted to provide parafoils for the ships which support the airframer’s manufacturing process.

Melissa Rudinger has been elected to the board of directors of RTCA

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Alain Rondeau has been appointed senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for Bombardier.

Avflight Harrisburg is pre-leasing space for its new 30,000 ft.2. hangar in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, has begun construction on a new $15 million, 23,196 ft.2 aircraft rescue and firefighting facility.

Bombardier Aerospace has appointed Danny Di Perna chief operating officer.

Flightdocs, a cloud-based aircraft maintenance tracking, compliance and inventory management service, has partnered with HondaJet Owners & Pilots Association to offer discounted services to association members.

Big Game Air has partnered with former football wide receiver Tim Brown, a Notre Dame Heisman Trophy winner and NFL Hall of Fame inductee, to greet Big Game’s private jet at South Bend International Airport in Indiana on Sept. 1.

The Learjet 75 is a twin-engine business jet that is produced by Learjet, itself a subsidiary of Canadian manufacturer Bombardier.

Parts provider and aftermarket specialist Heico on Aug. 30 announced its Flight Support Group has acquired Optical Display Engineering (ODE).

Baker Aviation has named Aircraft Specialties as its domestic stocking dealer for its Hot-Stop “L” Fire Containment kits.

Gulfstream Aerospace has selected ClearStar as its contract labor screening provider.

Textron Aviation’s Singapore Service Center has expanded its jet and turboprop service with additional authorizations from the FAA and authorities across the Asia-Pacific region.

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Martha King, co-owner of King Schools, has been named to the Civil Air Patrol Board of Governors.

Olivier Langeard has been named director of aftermarket programs and business development at Dassault Falcon Jet. Langeard joined the company in 2003.

Textron Aviation is working on a fix to meet FAA requirements for fuel tank flammability requirements on the Citation Longitude that can be done before the first aircraft are delivered to customers.