The Weekly of Business Aviation

By Matthew Orloff
Even if you are not a fan of golf, chances are that as a business jet owner, operator, or charter broker, you were probably familiar with the popularity to head to Augusta Regional Airport in Georgia recently for the Masters.
Airports, FBOs & Suppliers

By Bill Carey
Vertiports designed for future electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft are beginning to pop up around the U.S.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Sean Broderick
Long-time agency official Lirio Liu will take over as executive director of FAA’s Aircraft Certification Service, replacing Earl Lawrence, who moves to the NextGen Office to become deputy assistant administrator.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
German startup Theion is targeting electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft as an early market for solid-state, lithium-sulfur batteries that promise three times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion cells.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Bill Carey
Start-up Overwatch Imaging of Hood River, Oregon, has closed an $11 million Series A financing round to advance its precision imaging payloads designed for drones and general aviation aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Swiss aircraft manufacturer Pilatus claimed its highest-ever revenues in 2021 but the company warns that it is now facing supply chain bottlenecks.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Matthew Orloff
While NBAA’s 2022 Schedulers and Dispatchers Conference was in full swing, Signature Flight Support announced the addition of Derek DeCross as the company’s new SVP of global customer engagement.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Wing will launch the first commercial drone delivery services in a major U.S. metropolitan area on April 7 in Dallas-Forth Worth.
Advanced Air Mobility

Aviation Week Network staff
Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation has intensified the development of an import-substituted version of its Superjet (SSJ) 100 regional jet—which remains almost the only commercial passenger aircraft Russian domestic carriers can use for international flights now.
Aerospace

By Bill Carey
The FBO division of Europe’s Luxaviation Group plans to develop ground infrastructure for future advanced air mobility (AAM) vehicles as it pursues a growth strategy based on building and acquiring new facilities.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Aircraft manufacturers at the 2022 Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo report continued robustness in the market for business and general aviation aircraft despite recent world events, although they face continued pressures from supply chain concerns.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Cleveland-based Fractional ownership provider Flexjet plans to hire 350 pilots as it adds 50 additional business jets to its North American fleet by the end of 2022 to meet record customer demand, the company says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Hexcel has signed a letter of intent with Archer Aviation to provide high-performance carbon fiber materials for the electric vertical takeoff and landing startup’s production air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
The European Investment Bank on April 6 unveiled roughly $17.4 million in financing for Dutch company Airborne International.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Piasecki is planning to fly an 80-kW fuel-cell powertrain in an off-the-shelf commercial helicopter as a key demonstration step toward development of its PA-890 hydrogen-electric light helicopter.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Diamond Aircraft’s five-seat Diamond DA50 RG carbon fiber aircraft, on display at Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo in Lakeland, Florida, will begin deliveries into North America later in 2022, officials say.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
Business aviation has bounced back stronger since the annual NBAA Schedulers & Dispatchers Conference (SDC) ended prematurely in 2020, President and CEO Ed Bolen told conference attendees April 6.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
In a major step forward in its digitalization, including overhauling how it designs and builds new aircraft, Boeing announced a series of deals with the highest-profile cloud-computing providers.
Aerospace

By Garrett Reim
Universal Hydrogen plans to flight test its 1-megawatt, hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion system on a De Havilland Canada Dash 8-300 regional aircraft starting around September.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
FlyExclusive has placed an order with Textron Aviation for up to 30 Cessna Citation CJ3+ light jets.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
Even as biofuel suppliers and fixed-base operators (FBOs) ramp up the availability of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), aircraft operators remain uncertain about the composition of SAF and complexity of using it to claim emissions reductions, business aviation leaders say.
Sustainability

By Graham Warwick
Canada’s National Research Council has begun flight tests of a Cessna 337G Skymaster modified into a hybrid-electric propulsion testbed.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
South Korea’s Doosan Mobility Innovation (DMI) has secured a 27 billion won ($22 million) investment, primarily for the development of cargo drones powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Daher kicked off the Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo in Lakeland, Florida, April 5 by unveiling the TBM 960, the latest version of its pressurized single turboprop family of aircraft, with digital power.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Helicopter leasing company Lobo Leasing has signed a letter of intent with Pipistrel that includes deposits for the acquisition of 15 Nuuva V300 hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing unmanned cargo aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility