The Weekly of Business Aviation

Precision Heliparts, based in Atlanta, has opened a new sales facility in...

Flightstar Corp. has received an FAA Supplemental Type Certificate for installation of its ...

FlightSafety International’s simulator for the Sikorsky S-76C+ and S-76C++, located in Singapore, has been qualified to ...

Crystal Cruises has added a Bombardier Global Express XRS jet to its fleet.

Piper Aircraft has named Legacy Flight Training as the provider of training for its ...

Meridian Air Charter has added a Falcon 7X to its growing fleet of private business jets.

Gulfstream Aerospace has delivered its first G650 ER into China.

B-N Group (BRITTEN-NORMAN) [Docket No. FAA-2015-7777; Directorate Identifier 2015-CE-036-AD; Amendment 39-18432 ....

Dave Labrozzi has been named Global Jet Capital’s chief operating officer and Vivek Kaushal has been named chief risk officer.

Mar. 22—15th Annual Aviation Summit, “Fascination of Flight” Renaissance Hotel, Washington, D.C., https://www.uschamber.com/

An FAA reauthorization bill making its way through the U.S. Senate could require the Department of Transportation to create within two years a “final rule authorizing the carriage of property by operators of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for compensation or hire within the United States.”

The business jet market is holding steady for Textron Aviation, RBC Europe analyst Robert Stallard wrote in a note to investors March 17.

Beechcraft Corp., a division of Textron Aviation, has won European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certification for its Beechcraft King Air 350i/ER and King Air 250 equipped with Pro Line Fusion-avionics.

The U.S. civil aviation maintenance industry – often an unseen part of the aviation industry – employs more than 270,000 people and generates $43.1 billion in economic activity, according to the 2016 Global Fleet & MRO Market Assessment

Remos AG, which sold light sport aircraft in North America, has reorganized with new management and returned to business, the company announced.

Dassault Aviation Chairman and CEO Eric Trappier says his company has agreed to a revised development and certification schedule with Safran for Silvercrest engine development, and that Dassault is obtaining compensation from its Snecma motors division to mitigate the impact of the nearly three-year Silvercrest delay.

Sen. Bill Nelson’s (D-Fla.) prediction at the start of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee’s executive session on March 16 to mark up the chamber’s FAA reauthorization bill did in fact come true. But there were obvious doubts in the room.

Skytech is adding aircraft charter to its list of services, which include aircraft sales, maintenance, aircraft management and fixed based operations.

Aero Electric Aircraft Corp. hopes to stimulate aviation flight training by offering a lower-cost all-electric aircraft, the two-seat Sun Flyer.

Advanced Technology Services has announced a new division, ATS Aviation Services, that focuses on the needs of the aviation maintenance and parts industry.

Italian aerospace and defense group Finmeccanica will rebrand itself to Leonardo, in memory of the master painter and inventor.

Bombardier Business Aircraft’s service center network will provide hardware sales and installations for SmartSky 4G, a network that delivers unrestricted access to the Web.

Honda Aircraft Co.’s HondaJet light jet has received type certification from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority of Mexico, the Direccion General de Aeronautica, the company said March 16.

A failure by helicopter pilots to monitor instruments and make use of onboard automated systems were key factors in the loss of a CHC Scotia-operated AS332L2 Super Puma off the Shetland Islands in 2013, U.K. crash investigators have concluded.

Airbus Helicopters is set to certify a new lightweight health and usage monitoring system (HUMS), finally opening the technology to light helicopter operators.