The Weekly of Business Aviation

Tony Osborne
Mauro Moretti, CEO of Leonardo, has reiterated his demand that the ATR regional airliner joint venture with Airbus needs to begin development of a 100-seat aircraft.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Piper Aircraft has taken a firm order for 50 Piper Archer single-engine aircraft from China Air Shuttle, its dealer in China said.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 9 declined to hear Flytenow’s case seeking to overturn lower court-decisions in support of the FAA’s interpretation that its online flight-sharing website was in violation of the FAA’s “common carrier” requirement.
Business Aviation

The FAA is proposing 12 new high-altitude jet routes along the U.S. East Coast, part of a modernization strategy to replace legacy ground-referenced routes with GPS-based, performance-based navigation (PBN) routes.
Business Aviation

By Kirby Harrison
David Wayne Hooks Airport in Houston is near completion of Phase 2 of its capital improvement program, which includes the recent resurfacing of the general aviation runway and refurbishment of the Gill Aviation FBO terminal building.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
British air accident investigators looking into the cause of an unstable landing of a Sikorsky S-92 helicopter onto a North Sea oil platform have focused their attention on a damaged tail rotor component.
Business Aviation

By Bradley Perrett
The latest Mitsubishi Aircraft MRJ prototype to arrive at the program’s U.S. test base has begun flying there.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Sikorsky has called for Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) and tail rotor inspections of the S-92 utility helicopter following an incident on a North Sea offshore platform in December.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Business aviation departures in Europe declined 0.6% year-over-year in December, while departures for the full year declined 0.3% compared to 2015, according to WingX Advance.
Business Aviation

The FAA has issued new rules that make it easier and cheaper for general aviation pilots to gain required medical certifications to fly.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
MemberJets President Ty Carter wants to introduce private aviation to more travelers by making it more accessible and affordable.
Business Aviation

Larry Rohrbach has joined Winner Aviation in Vienna, Ohio, as maintenance sales manager.

The market for aircraft flight control systems for business, commercial and military aircraft is projected to grow from $11.85 billion in 2016 to $16.59 billion by 2021.

By Joe Anselmo
On a visit to Washington, Paulo Cesar de Souza e Silva, president and CEO of Brazilian aircraft builder Embraer, sat down for a roundtable with editors from The Weekly of Business Aviation.

View the Monthly Program Profile: The Citation X chart in PDF format.

By Molly McMillin
Piper Aircraft has received a type certificate for its single-engine M600 from Transport Canada.

By Molly McMillin
Constant Aviation has expanded its aircraft-on-the-ground mobile team coverage in the central U.S. region with the addition of Denver and Rifle, Colorado.

By Molly McMillin
CTT Systems has received an order for its Cair VIP humidification system for an Airbus ACJ330-200 VIP completion.

By Molly McMillin
Jet Aviation’s maintenance center in Geneva has completed its first 192-month, ultra-heavy maintenance check on a Gulfstream V.

By Molly McMillin
Astronics Max-Viz, a division of Astronics Corp., was awarded certification for its Max-Viz 1200 Enhanced Vision System for fixed and rotor wing aircraft.

By Molly McMillin
328 Support Services GmbH and Duncan Aviation have partnered to deliver and certify a full cabin completion on a Bombardier Challenger 604.

By Molly McMillin
AirFlyte has changed its name to Rectrix MRO.

By Molly McMillin
FlightServ, an independent fixed base operation, opened Jan. 1 at the Trenton-Mercer Airport in New Jersey.

By Molly McMillin
Lynx FBO Network, a division of the Sterling Group, has completed acquisitions of Cirrus Flight Operations and Key Air Twin Cities.

By Molly McMillin
Textron AirLand’s first production conforming Scorpion jet completed its first flight.