The Weekly of Business Aviation

The aerospace and defense ducting systems market is expected to grow 5.9% a year during a forecast period from 2016 to 2021.

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Textron Aviation has selected Ametek Aerospace & Defense to provide the flap system for its new clean-sheet Cessna Denali single-engine turboprop now under development.

Gulfstream Aerospace has received an order from the Polish Ministry of National Defense for two Gulfstream G550 aircraft.

Cape Air and Tecnam have entered formal aircraft delivery negotiations.

Bell Helicopter has received approval from Transport Canada for the Bell 206 Polycarbonate Windshield.

Constant Aviation has completed its second 750-hr. inspection of an Embraer Legacy 500 aircraft at its maintenance, repair and overhaul facility.

Ecocopter has taken delivery of a Frasca International EC-135 Helicopter Flight Training Device at its flight training facility at the Eulogia Sanchez Airport in Santiago, Chile.

Northwest Texas Healthcare System and Med-Trans Corporation have expanded its Lifestar partnership with the addition of a King Air E-90 turboprop aircraft.

JetAviation in Basel, Switzerland has signed an agreement with an undisclosed customer to perform its 10th C-Check on a Dassault Falcon F7X.

Bliss Jet will launch shared private jet service from LaGuardia Airport to London’s Stansted Airport in January.

AirBP, an aviation fuel and services supplier, and AKR, an Indonesian distributor of petroleum, logistics and supply chain services, have signed a joint venture agreement.

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The FAA is superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2015-02-23, for certain Bombardier, Inc. Challenger 600 Series.

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Michelle Hoover joined Cutter Aviation as HondaJet regional sales manager for Southern California, Southern Nevada and Hawaii.

The second Citation Longitude flight test aircraft has completed its first flight.

The mid-to-intermediate size business jet market offers a $50 billion opportunity over the next decade, Jefferies analyst Howard Rubel says.

Embraer has begun negotiations with its metalworkers union for a temporary employment suspension affecting up to 2,000 workers in Brazil.

NetJets and FlightSafety International owner Berkshire Hathaway have reversed course and made a $1.3 billion investment in three U.S. airlines, not including an undisclosed investment in a fourth, regulatory documents show.

Honda Aircraft has plans to boost production of its $4.5 million HondaJet entry-level business jet over the next two to three years.

Since releasing its Part 107 Small Unmanned Aircraft System rule on Aug. 29, the FAA as of Nov. 9 had received more than 30,000 new aircraft registrations from commercial operators and more than 22,500 remote pilot applications.

Straightline Aviation (SLA), launch customer for Lockheed Martin’s LMH-1 heavy-lift cargo hybrid airship, has signed an agreement to provide dedicated shuttle services for Canadian rare-earth mining company Quest Rare Minerals.

Straightline Aviation (SLA), launch customer for Lockheed Martin’s LMH-1 heavy-lift cargo hybrid airship, has signed an agreement to provide dedicated shuttle services for Canadian rare-earth mining company Quest Rare Minerals.

Drone delivery startup Flirtey has begun the first commercial trials of autonomous pizza delivery, flying to customers’ homes from a Domino’s Pizza store in Whangaparaoa, north of Auckland, New Zealand.