Monaco-based Boutsen Aviation closed 2016 with a record four sales in December, chalking up a Gulfstream G550 in Basel and a GV in Luton, as well as “a double sales transaction” of two Falcon 7X jets in the U.S., for a total of 15 aircraft for the year.

Dry ice and holograms were deployed in Palexpo yesterday as Airbus introduced Airbus Corporate Helicopters as a comprehensive vertical lift solution for high-net-worth individuals, corporations, or business aviation operators.

​Geneva Airpark says its covered parking and associated range of services for business jets “once again registered an increase in 2016, despite a slowdown in traffic generated by business aviation that has been going on for several years at Geneva Airport.”

Forget that ‘Top Gear’ stuff of car-versus-airplane; combine the best of the two. That’s what Airbus Corporate Jets (Booth Z58) has done in teaming with Italian hypercar Atelier Pagani Automobili to produce a new cabin design for the ACJ319neo, called Infinito.

​Daher sees sales prospects for its TBM family in the recent – some would say, belated – European approval for single-engine commercial operations under IMC. Since March 22, regulation (EU) 965/2012 has allowed aircraft including the TBM850, 900, 910 and 930 to take advantage of the new freedom. But, as always, the devil is in the detail.

Pratt & Whitney Canada arrives at EBACE in a festive mood, having just celebrated the manufacture of its 100,000th gas turbine engine.

In March of this year, AMAC Aerospace Group COO Bernd Schramm noted that the company’s four hangars were operating at full capacity with maintenance work packages on aircraft including three ACJ340s and a VIP Boeing 777.

Bombardier has established five new line maintenance stations in Europe, all supporting Learjet, Challenger and Global business aircraft.