Minsheng Financial Leasing is aiming to construct the world’s largest business aircraft leasing operation, while seeking to build its position in the now slower mainland Chinese market.
A single-engine turboprop aircraft that Textron Aviation announced last year will be roomier and cheaper than competing types, the company says, while declining to give details of the program.
The top Democrat on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is adamant about his opposition. “Air traffic control privatization is just not going to happen,” Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) said in a Senate floor speech.
A Sunday ban on tourist helicopter flights in New York began on April 3, and is part of “a series of steep reductions” in the number of these flights this year,” according to the City Council.
A new airport serving the remote, British island territory of St. Helena is preparing to welcome its first jet aircraft in preparation for the beginning of air passenger operations at the South Atlantic Ocean outpost in the coming weeks.
JetSuite has launched a public charter operation offering weekday service from the San Francisco Bay Area to the Los Angeles region and weekend service to Las Vegas.
Dassault Aviation’s new flagship Falcon 8X landed at Teterboro Airport April 5 on a global test campaign that began in mid-March to showcase the aircraft’s performance and reliability in various conditions ahead of certification this year.
Cessna Aircraft, a division of Textron Aviation, has delivered a Cessna Skyhawk 172 to Epic Flight Academy as part of a recently signed multiyear agreement.
The FAA, the EAA and Dynon Avionics say they have made a “breakthrough” to improve flight safety and reduce avionics upgrade costs for certain aircraft.
Nordam is upgrading and moving aircraft exhaust repair operations from its former Tulsa, Oklahoma, headquarters to its nearby repair division facility.
Piper Aircraft, based in Vero Beach, Florida, has taken an order for 112 Archer and Seminole aircraft from the UND Aerospace Foundation’s John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences.
New technology like “big data” and analytics will dramatically change the world of aerospace maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), according to two well-known competing consultants speaking at Aviation Week's MRO Americas 2016 symposium.
Honeywell International’s CEO announced April 4 that Darius Adamczyk has been appointed to the newly created role of president and chief operating officer.
