The Weekly of Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
View the Sounding Board: Five Minutes With NBAA President And CEO Ed Bolen in PDF format.
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View the Monthly Program Profile: King Air 350 in PDF format.

By Molly McMillin
Constant Aviation Rotable Exchange (CARE), based in Cleveland, has launched a Beechjet Engine program for Beechjet 5 and ...

By Molly McMillin
Rockwell Collins and Stellar Labs have partnered to develop a flight operations management platform for business aviation through ...

By Molly McMillin
Bombardier WAVE (Wireless Access Virtually Everywhere) Ka-Band high-speed internet is now available for Global business aircraft at all ...

By Molly McMillin
Thomas Global Systems was awarded an FAA Supplemental Type Certificate for its TFD-8601 Electronic Flight Instrument System upgrade on ...

By Molly McMillin
Zetta Jet, a charter operator based in Singapore, has added a Bombardier Global 6000 jet to its fleet.

By Molly McMillin
Duncan Aviation has become the sole U.S. distributor of Inairvation’s Integrated Smart Cabin Upgrade for Gulfstream 450 and 550 business jets.

By Molly McMillin
Robert Sumwalt from the National Transportation Safety Board is the winner of Bombardier’s 2016 Safety Standdown Award.

By Molly McMillin
Nomad Aviation has added a Beechcraft Premier 1 to its charter fleet.

By Thierry Dubois
Wijet, a France-based executive air charter specialist, is taking over UK-based competitor Blink in a move looking for synergies in a combined fleet of 15 Cessna Citation Mustang very light jets.
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By Molly McMillin
The FAA has initiated an investigation requiring the city of Santa Monica, California, to explain its rationale for issuing evictions to two fixed base operators at Santa Monica Municipal Airport after declaring a policy to close the facility.
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By Graham Warwick
The first four-seat aircraft powered by a hydrogen fuel cell has been flown by H2Fly, a consortium spun off from German aerospace center DRL.
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By Graham Warwick
An international flight research effort is underway over the Atlantic Ocean from Sept. 19-Oct. 16 to help understand the influence of the jet stream on weather.
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By Molly McMillin
The regional aircraft market is stabilizing following seven years of erratic swings in production, with long-term growth projected, according to a new Forecast International study.
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By Tony Osborne
Bell has launched a high-technology, VIP interior for its Model 525 super-medium helicopter in a bid to widen its appeal to the VIP and high-net-worth individual market.
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By Graham Warwick
A Lufthansa subsidiary has begun inspecting wind-turbine blades using drones as part of the strategic partnership of the Nordex Group, which manufactures turbines for the in-shore wind-energy market.
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Companies around the world could need up to $178 billion in funding to purchase as many as 5,400 business jets between now and 2025, a Global Jet Capital analysis said.
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By Molly McMillin
Embraer is cutting nearly 1,500 employees from its workforce in Brazil as it moves to reduce costs in the midst of a challenging market.
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By Molly McMillin
Spirit AeroSystems is selling its Chanute, Kansas, manufacturing facility to Orizon Aerostructures, based in Kansas City, Missouri.
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By Molly McMillin
With the National Business Aviation Association’s biggest event a month away, The Weekly of Business Aviation caught up with NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen in Wichita Sept. 27 at Bombardier’s 20th annual SafetyStanddown.
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By Molly McMillin
Gulfstream Aerospace will cease production of its G150 midsize business jet to focus on the super-midsize and large-cabin aircraft market, the company said Sept. 28.
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By Kirby Harrison
On-demand private jet charter operator XOJET and JetSmarter, a private jet “mobile marketplace” charter consolidator, have formed a partnership, saying it signals “the continued evolution of private access.”
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By Kirby Harrison
Sentient Jet, a private aviation jet card company, has launched a booking app which allows Jet Card holders to instantly book private jet flights through their smartphones or electronic tablets using Android or Apple operating systems.
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By Molly McMillin
There were times when golf legend Arnold Palmer was not a golfer. Those were the times he spent in the cockpit of an airplane.
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