The Weekly of Business Aviation

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The NTSB has located the wreckage of the DHC-3 Turbine Otter seaplane that crashed in the Puget Sound off Whidbey Island, Washington.

De Havilland Canada is providing engineering support to modify a Dash 8-100, replacing one of its two P&WC PW120-class turboprops with a 2-megawatt parallel hybrid-electric powertrain.

The company wants to certify its technology for continuous autopilot engagement through all phases of the Cessna 208’s operations, including taxi, takeoff, cruise, landing, braking and rollout.

“Much of the focus in advanced air mobility today has been on the vehicle,” says David Stepanek, the Bristow Group’s chief transformation officer. “There hasn’t been a lot of focus, or any focus at all, on what happens after production."

The challenges involved in electrifying aviation powertrains remain considerable, but an important developmental corner may have been turned, according to Rolls-Royce.

Details of the five-year agreement were not provided as part of the Sept. 7 announcement.

The FAA has awarded type certification of the Matternet M2 quadcopter after a four-year evaluation, the company has announced.

Patrick Gallagher, who joined NetJets in 2010, currently serves as president of sales, marketing and service.

The various crises faced by Europe’s aviation sector in recent months are often presented as headwinds the industry has to contend with.

Gil Wolin, a former publisher of BCA, died on Sept. 5.

Explosive growth in demand for private aircraft charter following the COVID-19 pandemic has remained on the rise since 2021.

The company is building an extension to its facility at Subang Airport as it reaches capacity from growing business aviation activities in the region.

The number of pre-owned twin-engine helicopter retail sales declined during the first half of 2022 compared to the same period a year ago, as did

Gulfstream Aerospace has completed the first flight of a second fully outfitted G700 production-test aircraft.

KIELCE, POLAND—A Polish company is advancing flight-testing of a single-engine very light jet. The five-seat, single-pilot Flaris Lar 1, which first

The decision by Rolls-Royce narrows the list of potential engine providers for the Mach 1.7 Overture airliner project.

The FAA has awarded Dassault Aviation a supplemental type certificate (STC) allowing installation of Universal Avionics’ InSight display system upgrade on the Dassault Falcon 900B trijet, Universal announced on Sept. 6.

The NTSB on Sept. 6 took over the search for wreckage of a DHC-3T Turbine Otter seaplane that crashed in the Puget Sound northwest of Seattle, with the presumed loss of all 10 people aboard.

Against the backdrop of an increasingly pressing need for new flight decks, Dassault Aviation has been working with ISAE-SupAero’s Department of Aerospace Vehicles Design and Control (DCAS) in Toulouse, which has set up a teaching and research chair on the architecture of cognitive air systems.

Montreal-based startup VPorts plans to build a network of vertiports in Quebec, focused initially on regional cargo and medical transportation using electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

The move signals the growing importance of electric power in new aircraft designs.

Shanghai-based Vertax has flown a half-scale model of its design and is targeting certification in 2026.

The aircraft is expected to begin remotely piloted test flights before the end of the year.

The funding was awarded by the U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration.