The Weekly of Business Aviation

The first meeting of FAA’s rechartered Drone Advisory Committee (DAC) will be held July 17 in Santa Clara, California.

Kansas State University’s Polytechnic Campus in Salina, Kansas, has received an FAA waiver to fly unmanned aircraft systems beyond the line-of-sight.

SOAR Aviation, a private flying school based in Melbourne, Australia, has placed an order for eight Tecnam P2008 light sport aircraft, the company said.

Planet Nine, a boutique ultra long-haul charter company based in Los Angeles and London, has secured its FAA Part 135 operating certificate and is making its first Dassault Falcon 7X available for charter.

Web Manuals, based in San Diego, has added its first aircraft manufacturing customer, Nextant Aerospace.

Aerion has named Sparfell & Partners in Geneva as a sales representative for the sale of its AS2 supersonic business jet.

Zeusch Aviation, based in Lelystad, Holland, has taken delivery of its third aircraft, a King Air 200.

Nextant Aerospace will end its introductory discount pricing of ProLine Fusion on Challenger 604XT aircraft at the end of July. Aug. 1 will begin a new market price, it said.

MEKCO Group, based in Miami, has signed an agreement with Donica to become a dealer and authorized repair facility for Donica’s inflight entertainment and connectivity equipment sales and repair, it said.

Spirit AeroSystems has expanded its manufacturing operations in Subang, Malaysia, with the opening of a 50,000-sq.-ft. logistics warehouse.

Duncan Aviation will open a satellite avionics shop in Bedford, Massachusetts in early August

Silver Air has added an 11-passenger Gulfstream GIV to its jet management program and is now available for charter operations.

Embraer has delivered its first Phenom 300E in the Asia Pacific.

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Kirti Odedra has been named director of sales for Planet Nine, based in Los Angeles and London. Bill Wulf will serve as chief financial officer. Wulf is a former senior vice president and chief financial officer of NetJets.

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Clay Lacy Aviation has opened a new office at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York.

Global Jet Capital, based in Boca Raton, Florida, has closed a securitization of about $674 million.

Bombardier Aerospace said that its Global 7500 mockup is continuing its worldwide tour in Europe after stops in Dubai, Singapore and Shanghai.

Washington State has formed an electric aircraft working group to explore the opportunities and challenges of electrifying aviation.

TAG Farnborough Airport has been awarded carbon neutral status by the Airports Council International Europe (ACI Europe), making it the world’s first carbon-neutral business aviation airport.

NASA has laid out a three-phase program to collect data on public acceptance of reduced sonic booms using the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works-developed low-boom demo.

The UK government urgently needs to hammer out a withdrawal agreement from the European Union to avoid massive disruption to the aerospace industry on both sides of the Atlantic, said Michael Huerta, the former FAA administrator.

The C Series program that the new Airbus-Bombardier joint venture takes over July 1 is better than just a few months ago.

ATP Flight School, based in Jacksonville, Florida, has taken delivery of 10 new Cessna 172 Skyhawks from Textron Aviation, the flight school announced.