The Weekly of Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Textron Aviation has added a mobile service unit at the Hayward Executive Airport to support Citation, King Air and Hawker aircraft in Northern California.

By Molly McMillin
Sun European Partners, a private investment firm, has acquired C&K Holdings, a producer of electromechanical switches based in Newton, Massachusetts.

By Molly McMillin
Ruag Aviation in Munich has completed a 15-month and 30-month heavy maintenance inspection on a Gulfstream G550.

The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Ameri-King Corporation emergency locator transmitters (ELTs) as installed on various aircraft.

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David Warfel has been named Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty Head of Aviation, North America, effective Oct. 1.

Oct. 3-5—MRO Europe, ExCel London, London, U.K. For more information go to www.aviationweek.com/events

View the Monthly Program Profile: Cessna Citation Excel, XLS, XLS+ chart in PDF format.

By Molly McMillin
BRS Aerospace has launched a nationwide Cessna Parachute System Authorized Installation Network to perform whole aircraft parachute installations on Cessna 172 and Cessna 182 aircraft.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Bombardier Aerospace’s fourth Global 7000 flight-test vehicle arrived at the Bombardier Flight Test Center in Wichita on Sept. 30 to join the first three flight-test aircraft currently in flight testing.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. has a program called Aircraft Ownership Service (AOS), a suite of aircraft maintenance and flight operations services.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
Ride-hailing giant Uber is focusing its efforts to develop an urban air transport network on airspace access and ground infrastructure.
Business Aviation

By Michael Bruno
Proponents of moving U.S. air traffic control out of the FAA and into a nongovernment, nonprofit entity are looking for a significant victory in October.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Bombardier Aircraft’s fourth Global 7000 flight-test vehicle flew for the first time Sept. 28.
Business Aviation

By Lee Ann Shay
Properly tightened and torqued B-nuts are essential to engine fluid lines and hoses, on an engine properly functioning.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
The general manufacturing industry will benefit from the provisions, which include the reduction of costs and delivery times for aircraft exports across the Atlantic, Bunce said.
Business Aviation

By Michael Bruno
U.S. lawmakers are bumping up to the deadline for extending the FAA’s authorization, after a controversial bill passed the House of Representatives Sept. 28 but still faced an almost equally uncertain chance of becoming law.
Business Aviation

Jet Aviation San Juan has resumed its fixed-base operations (FBO) in Puerto Rico and is coordinating nearly all the humanitarian flights to hurricane-damaged Puerto Rico and the rest of the Caribbean region.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Jet Aviation has ceased its maintenance, repair and overhaul operations at Laurence G. Hanscom Field Airport in Bedford, Massachusetts, the company told customers in a letter.
Business Aviation

By Jens Flottau
Embraer CEO Paulo Cesar de Souza e Silva says he welcomes the preliminary ruling by the U.S. Commerce Department to impose a 220% duty on Bombardier C Series imports to the U.S.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Companies that use business aviation to support their missions outperform those that do not as demonstrated by a number of metrics, a new study of S&P 500 companies finds.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Embraer has delivered the first Legacy 500 midsize business jet assembled at its Melbourne, Florida, facility.
Business Aviation

By Bradley Perrett
If the Comac ARJ21 was a genuinely commercial program, the manufacturer would by now be saying it had done its best but, as everyone had always known, developing a jet airliner without experience was tough.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
View Sounding Board: Five Minutes With VistaJet President Ronald Silverman in PDF format.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Dubai authorities have begun the first flight trials of an urban air mobility system using the German Volocopter 2X multicopter.
Business Aviation