The Weekly of Business Aviation

The London Heliport in Battersea currently enjoys an exemption from EASA rule CAT.POL.H.305, which defines additional monitoring rules that operators need to adopt when flying helicopters where there is no assured safe forced-landing capability available.

Priced at less than $1 million, the Redkite electro-optical (EO) system is designed to broaden the market for wide-area airborne surveillance beyond the military to include law enforcement, border security, disaster relief, event security and firefighting.

Chromalloy , based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, is expanding its capabilities with a new facility that will double its capacity in Guaymas, Mexico

PRATT & WHITNEY DIVISION turbofan engines [Docket No. FAA-2015-0787; Directorate Identifier 2015-NE-10-AD] – proposes to adopt a new airworthiness

L.D. Buerger has been selected as director of operations for advanced aircraft programs at Gulfstream Aerospace . He reports to Dan Nale, Gulfstream

Jun. 9-10—SAE Aviation Technology Forum, Renaissance Shanghai Pudong Hotel, Shanghai, China, www.sae.org/events/atf/ Jun. 12-16—AMAC Annual Airport

The FAA, wrapping up a 15-year effort to improve runway safety areas, has formally kicked off its next airfield safety initiative—reducing incursions

The FAA, wrapping up a 15-year effort to improve runway safety areas, has formally kicked off its next airfield safety initiative—reducing incursions

LONDON—The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) plans to trial Saab’s remote tower system in Cork and Shannon as part of a demonstration program paving the

The FAA has initiated an audit of its Flight Service Station program. In 2005, the FAA awarded a five-year, fixed-price incentive contract to

The Flight Safety Foundation is expanding its Basic Aviation Risk Standard, or BARS, suite of documents aimed at managing aviation risk for contracted

The FAA has proposed a $75,000 civil penalty against Murray Aircraft Manufacturing of Ypsilanti, Michigan, for allegedly operating an aircraft not in

Duncan Aviation in Lincoln, Nebraska, plans to hold a free NextGen seminar, focusing on ADS-B and FANS 1A mandates. The seminar will be hosted by

TAG Aviation has regrouped all of its maintenance centers under the name TAG Aviation Maintenance Services to unify its business. The move will take

Wheels Up is sponsoring a thoroughbred racehorse, American Pharoah, as it competes at Belmont Stakes on June 6. The Wheels Up brand will appear as the

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Airbus Helicopters is pushing ahead with testing on the first prototype of its H160 twin-engined medium helicopter.

Bell Helicopter has opened a 85,950-sq.-ft. pilot and maintenance training facility at a new location in Fort Worth.

Gulfstream Aerospace is expanding its site at Long Beach Airport in California and creating at least 50 jobs in product support.

With a wingspan of 164 ft., but weighing only 350 lb., the Solara 50 UAV developed by Google company Titan Aerospace crashed soon after takeoff. The aircraft came down in farmland, causing no injuries or damage. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash.

Cessna Aircraft Co.’s new Citation Latitude midsize business jet has received FAA type certification, the company has announced.

Kaman is to restart production of its K-Max commercial external-lift helicopter, with the potential market for unmanned versions a factor in its decision.

Gulfstream Aerospace celebrated being awarded the 2014 Robert J. Collier Trophy by setting a city-pair record with its G650ER between Paris and Washington, D.C.

Managers at London’s only licensed heliport say they are concerned about the impact of new helicopter performance rules brought in by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).

Bombardier has appointed Louis Veronneau as vice president of mergers and acquisitions as the company prepares for an initial public offering (IPO) of a minority stake in its Bombardier Transportation division.