The Weekly of Business Aviation

The consensus in the industry is that China’s business aviation market is starting to take off again and that Southeast Asia is experiencing some good growth.

The first customer Pilatus PC-24 left Switzerland Jan. 30 bound for its Broomfield, Colorado, site for delivery to fractional ownership company PlaneSense.

AviationManuals recorded a 35% increase in revenue and a 30% increase in its manual and software subscription services in 2017.

The National Air Transportation Association has launched a Safety 1st Subscription Program.

Ansett Aviation Training is developing a new three-bay aviation training center for Brisbane, Australia.

SmartSky was awarded the first supplemental type certificate for its airborne network.

Boutsen Aviation, based in Monaco, closed on 17 aircraft transactions in 2017, including a Global XRS and a Falcon 7X in late December.

Bombardier Aerospace will provide support for customers at the Super Bowl in Minneapolis on Feb. 4 and the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea Feb. 9-25.

Eclipse Aviation, along with Advent Aircraft Systems, has launched a promotion of Advent’s eABS anti-skid brake system for Eclipse 500 twin-engine jets with the IFMS 2.08 software package.

The FAA is adopting a new AD for certain Aerospace Welding Minneapolis Inc. mufflers, part numbers A1754001-23 and A1754001-25, installed on airplanes.

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Bryan Moss, formerly president of Gulfstream, has joined the board of directors of Aerion.

Feb. 6-9—NBAA Schedulers & Dispatchers Conference, Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California, https://www.nbaa.org/events/sdc/2018/

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Venture capital is flowing into the nascent urban air mobility market and related fields of electric propulsion and autonomous systems.

Business aviation flight activity turned in its best year in 2017 since 2008, with more than 3 million flights in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean.

Gulfstream Aerospace has delivered a fourth G650ER to Qatar Airways for its Qatar Executive commercial charter service.

Embraer has delivered a Legacy 500 midsize business jet to an undisclosed customer in Malaysia, the company said.

Bell Helicopter sees China as the brightest spot in its Asian universe.

Gulfstream Aerospace’s new G500 is entering the final stage of its flight test and certification program, while the G600 completed field performance testing.

Business aviation services company Shanghai Hawker Pacific will bring its second hangar into operation in March, more than doubling its undercover space.

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has dropped its complaint with the FAA against Waukegan National Airport outside Chicago.

The Series B funding round was led by Intel Capital and includes JetBlue Technology Ventures, Toyota AI Ventures and Singapore-based EDBI, an investor in mobility, robotics and artificial intelligence. California-based Joby, founded in 2009, has now raised $130 million.

Dassault Aviation has unveiled the Falcon 6X, a new long-range business jet powered by Pratt & Whitney Canada engines.

The Vahana single-seat electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft developed by A³, Airbus’ Silicon Valley outpost, made its unmanned first flight at Pendleton, Oregon, on the morning of Jan. 31.