The nine-month-old NetJets pilot contract, which raised wages substantially, isn’t having the speculated adverse effect on profits at the fractional provid
Philippe Patricio, 21, who in June last year stole a Cessna 172 at Danbury Municipal Airport, Conn., and flew it on a drunken joyride to Westchester County
September 18 is the comment deadline on a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to establish operational life limitations designed to prevent widespread fat
Under an FAA proposal issued late last month, an airline’s annual “average seat size” would have to be equal to or greater than the airport-wide target of
A long-awaited interim final rule extends until at least mid-2008 the FAA’s mandated flight-reduction program to ease congestion at Chicago O’Hare Internat
Adam Aircraft of Englewood, Colo., last month completed a $93 million funding round led by venture-capital firm DCM, a new investor in the start-up manufac
Expect Cessna at the NBAA Convention next month to announce the Citation CJ4, a stretched version of the CJ3 with a slightly swept wing based on the Sovere
Calculation and theory go only so far in an aircraft development program, and last month it was time for Dassault’s Falcon 7X S/N 003 to jump in and get it
Despite a rash of accidents in June involving U.S.-registered turbine business airplanes, there were fewer fatalities in the first six months of this year
Brazilian charter operator Taxi Aereo Marila (TAM) believes the future of business aviation in Brazil includes very light jets (VLJs), and lots of them.
Gulfstream secured bragging rights as the first airplane manufacturer to offer synthetic vision, formally launching an SVS certification program at last mo
Bombardier Aerospace reached outside the company last month to appoint Pierre Gabriel Côté president of Bombardier Business Aircraft, a position that had b
Eurocontrol, the European international body that coordinates upper-airspace IFR traffic, recently published a study about business aviation in its 31-nati
Into an environment in which airlines perceive business aviation as competition for high-end travelers comes a study suggesting that business aviation is n
International Water-Guard (IWG) Industries, a Canadian firm specializing in water treatment products for aircraft, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit
Based on a study of 11 accidents that occurred between December 2002 and February this year, the NTSB expressed “serious concern” about the effectiveness o