2024 Corporate Aviation Leadership Summit

Chad Trautvetter

NBAA announced yesterday that Georgia Gov.

Georgia Gov. To Keynote NBAA Opening Session 

Gregory Polek

Airbus has started making parts for the <link news/single-news-page/article/airbus-to-compress-a350xwb-flight-test-schedule-24868/ _blank>A350 XWB</link> i

Airbus Starts A350 XWB Production in Germany  

The criminal trial of the American pilots of the Legacy jet that <link ain-and-ainalerts/aviation-international-news/single-publication-story/browse/0/arti

Judge Refuses To Hear Midair Witnesses  

Honda Aircraft in late July said that power was switched on for the first time in its first conforming flight-test HondaJet light jet, while the fuselage a

First Conforming HondaJet Powered On

Aviation data and services firm Argus launched a new online registry of charter operators that features the company’s charter evaluation and qualification 

Argus Rolls Out Online Charter Registry

Dassault Falcon received EASA certification to equip the Falcon 7X with its enhanced flight vision system (EFVS).

Enhanced Vision Gets EASA OK for Falcon 7X

Latin America, which has historically been the third-largest market for business aircraft, is poised to play an important part in business aviation’s recov

Latin America Could Be Key in Bizav Recovery

Curt Epstein

For the seventh straight quarter, total deliveries of business jets and turboprops declined year-to-year, according to the second-quarter statistics releas

Deliveries decline in 2Q, but billings increase again

Charles Alcock

Abu Dhabi’s <link news/single-news-page/article/aircraft-movements-on-the-rise-at-al-bateen-24718/ _blank>Al Bateen Executive Airport </link>will commissio

Al Bateen expands to IFR service

Chances that Boeing will fit new engines on the existing 737 appear slimmer now than at any time since the company began talking publicly about the prospec

Boeing Leaning Away from 737 Re-engining 

Matt Thurber

After landing at Santa Barbara Municipal Airport on August 28, King Schools owners John and Martha King were puzzled when ATC insisted that they taxi to a 

Wrong ID of ‘Stolen’ Cessna Causes Gunpoint Drama 

An alert radar controller monitoring traffic at Shannon air traffic services is credited with helping to prevent a Gulfstream IV-SP from crashing into the 

Alert Controller Saves Gulfstream IV from Crashing

Andrew Wood

Bird strikes are as old as aviation itself, with the Wright brothers reporting the first such hit during an early test flight.

FAA Issues Advisory Circular for Bird Tracking Radar 

The FAA, EASA and Transport Canada approved Goodrich's rotor-blade ice-protection system (Rips) for the AgustaWestland AW139 medium twin, the Charlotte, N.

AW139 Obtains Flight-in-icing Approvals 

Bill O'Connor

Boeing vice president Pat Shanahan has assumed oversight of the <link news/single-news-page/article/mcnerney-boeing-747-8-at-more-risk-of-schedule-slippage

Boeing's Shanahan To Oversee Struggling 747-8 

AIN Staff

In 1986, Mario Diaz came from his native Argentina as a boy "to spend a couple of months." Twenty-five years later he is CEO of Cabin Crafters, a fast-grow

Cabin Crafters is the American success story

The U.S.

DOJ Approves UAL-CAL Merger Plan 

Gulfstream Aerospace on Friday evening said its G650 S/N 6001 skirted the speed of sound on August 12, reaching Mach 0.995 during flutter testing as part o

G650 Slips the Surly Bonds at Mach 0.995

Gama Charters of Stratford, Conn., and Hop-A-Jet Worldwide Jet Charter of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Friday became the latest air charter operators to gain 

Gama, Hop-A-Jet Latest To Attain ACSF Charter Registry Approval

Aviation safety is once again under scrutiny in Latin America after the <link news/single-news-page/article/ntsb-team-assisting-investigation-of-aires-boei

Fatal Aires Airline 737 Crash Renews Safety Focus on Latin America

The <link airshow-convention-news/farnborough-air-show/single-publication-story/browse/0/article/sikorsky-tooling-up-for-ch-53k-17573/ _blank>Sikorsky CH-5

CH-53K Marks Key APU Light-off Milestone

After investigating four accident flights operated under code-sharing arrangements in the past three years, the NTSB will hold a two-day symposium on Octob

NTSB To Host Code-share Symposium

The investigation continues into the cause of last month’s crash of a de Havilland Canada DHC-3T Otter turboprop-conversion floatplane in Alaska that kille

Stevens crash investigation under way

Statistics released by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) for the month of July clearly reflect an <link news/single-news-page/article/iata

IATA: Strong Demand Continues as Recovery Enters Slower Second Phase 

Thierry Dubois

Business jet manufacturers are quietly progressing toward more-electric architectures, where electricity replaces hydraulic and pneumatic power in systems 

OEMs embrace more-electric aircraft systems

Operating an aircraft accounts for 80 percent of the machine’s lifetime environmental footprint, according to a newly released Dassault study.

Committee studies eco-friendly production, dismantling

Rockwell Collins, as a member of a consortium of industry partners led by Swedish air navigation service provider Luftfartsverket (LFV), has been awarded a

Rockwell Collins Plays Key Role in Green Connection Evaluations

Boeing’s Chicago downtown headquarters has earned the U.S.

Boeing Headquarters Earns EPA Energy Star

Honeywell is offering a new emissions monitoring service for business  jets operating in European airspace to assist in compliance with  European Union emi

Honeywell Launches New Emissions and Monitoring

Five aerospace companies have been awarded a total of $125 million in contracts as part of an environmental initiative to spur development of new aircraft 

FAA Awards $125M in Green Contracts

With the deadline for the comment period on the Environmental Protection Agency’s advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) to phase out leaded avgas 

EPA begins ruling process to phase out leaded avgas

Eurocopter and parent company EADS have teamed with Argentina-based BioCombustibles del Chubut (BC) to study the feasibility of building an aviation biofue

Eurocopter joins biofuel quest

The alternative aviation fuel industry continues to conduct flight tests to validate the use of new jet-fuel blends.

Alternative fuels still face hurdles

Turbofan manufacturers are developing cleaner, quieter and more environmentally friendly engines that will meet current and future regulatory requirements.

Turbofan manufacturers continue ‘green’ efforts

Jennifer Harrington-Snell

The benefits of implementing NextGen and its European counterpart, the Single European Sky ATM Research (Sesar), are threefold: not only will the new proce

Next-gen ATC promises environmental rewards

There is no silver bullet for reducing the effect of business aviation on the environment, most industry analysts agree, but the combination of new technol

Business Aviation and the Environment

If the FAA reauthorization bill currently under debate in Congress is finally passed in its present form, one provision that it contains could seal the fat

FAA bill could end Stage II operations

Current FAA terminology for an air traffic controller’s instruction for a pilot to taxi onto the runway and await takeoff clearance is “position and hold.”

FAA Adopts ICAO’s ‘Line Up and Wait’ Terminology  

The Nigerian government’s announcement last month that it is buying two Falcon 7Xs and one Gulfstream G550 has yielded a rare public viewing of business ai

Nigerian jet buy lifts veil on discounts

In the three years since the Latin American Business Aviation Conference &amp; Exhibition (Labace) was relaunched, it has benefited from an increasingly he

Labace 2010 rides wave of Latin American growth

King Schools, distributor for Redbird Flight Simulation’s desktop TD and TD2 flight training devices, demonstrated a new Redbird feature, the Parrot contex

Parrot Helps Pilots Transmit

Jack Elliott

A highlight of AirVenture 2010 was the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the venerable Douglas DC-3, which changed aviation from a novelty to a major 

 AirVenture Hosts 75th Birthday of the Venerable DC-3

Mona Brown

AirVenture 2010 was blessed with few accidents.

Premier Crashes at AirVenture

Aviation Partners (API) broaught a Falcon 50 equipped with radical-looking spiroid winglets to AirVenture, the airplane’s first public appearance after a t

Aviation Partners Debuts Spiroid Winglets

EAA AirVenture, as usual, brought the aviation family together for another week of celebration, innovation and pure enjoyment at Wittman Regional Airport i

AirVenture 2010

The new Raisbeck Engineering Learjet 60 aft fuselage locker made its Labace debut as part of the Bombardier exhibit.

Raisbeck’s Learjet 60 Fuselage Locker Makes Debut

Boeing today announced yet another delay to the 787 program, following “an assessment of the availability of an engine needed for the final phases of fligh

Boeing Pushes First 787 Deliveries into Mid-First Quarter 

U.S.

Solena’s GreenSky Turning Garbage into Green Jet Fuel

Dassault Falcon president and CEO John Rosanvallon sees Brazil as “one of the fastest-growing markets in the world,” and his company expects to deliver 13 

Dassault Sees Brazilian Market Growth

Airlines that will be subject to Europe’s new <link ain-and-ainalerts/aviation-international-news/single-publication-story/browse/0/article/emissions-tradi

Airline Bean Counters Need To Count Emissions Carefully

Bombardier’s first safety standdown in Latin America drew a crowd the day before the opening of the annual Labace show.

Bombardier Safety Standdown Draws a Crowd 

Engine manufacturer Pratt &amp; Whitney Canada and the Brazilian maintenance and engineering division of TAP Portugal announced an agreement to provide “co

Pratt & Whitney Joins with Tap for Engine Overhaul

In what might prove the biggest cross-border airline merger ever between two <link news/single-news-page/article/asian-latin-carriers-join-buying-binge-255

LAN-TAM Merger Reflects Growing Latin American Solidarity

The possibility of Hawker Beechcraft moving some of its Wichita-based manufacturing elsewhere came up again early last month with the release of the compan

Hawker’s 2Q earnings and its backlog shrink

Business jet charter, sales and acquisition firm Zenith Jet released a “bottom-up segment dynamics” forecast that predicts 10,940 business jets worth some 

Crystal ball: $208B in sales by 2019

Faced with leaving for vacation without passing an FAA reauthorization bill that would tighten pilot training rules, lawmakers stripped those provisions fr

Interim FAA bill includes new pilot training rules 

Although support for accelerated depreciation for major equipment purchases is growing, Congress left for its summer recess without making it so.

Congress delays decision on bonus depreciation renewal

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano chose a general aviation event–EAA’s AirVenture– to unveil a streamlined process for business aviation users t

DHS streamlines waiver procedure 

The third <link news/single-news-page/article/superjet-100-sees-deliveries-by-year-end-25466/ _blank>Sukhoi Superjet 100</link> landed in Italy for the fir

Sukhoi Superjet 100 Makes First Appearance in Italy

Rolls-Royce today filed a complaint alleging infringement by United Technologies Corp.

Rolls-Royce Sues UTC for Patent Infringement

Desert Jet, an aircraft charter company based near Palm Springs, Calif., yesterday launched what it claims is the first air charter quoting program accessi

Desert Jet Launches Facebook-enabled Charter Quoting

World Fuel Services on Monday announced an agreement to acquire Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Western Petroleum, including its branded aviation fuel distributi

World Fuel To Acquire Western Petroleum

In its just-released world commercial helicopter market <link http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/press-release.pag?docid=210035359 _blank>report</link>, res

Civil Helicopter Outlook Good, Says Frost and Sullivan

Sales of pre-owned business jets, turboprops and turbine helicopters increased in the first seven months versus the same period last year, though at the sa

Pre-Owned Turbine Aircraft Sales Up, Prices Down

<font face="Verdana">An Airbus-led partnership with Air France and the air navigation service providers from the UK, Canada and the U.S.—respectively, NATS

Airbus-led Aire2 Trials To Spearhead Green Trajectories with A380

Spectrum Aeronautical has slowed development of the lightweight high-performance S.40 Freedom and S.33 Independence jets due to resource constraints.

Spectrum Aeronautical Slows Its Jet Programs

Nextant Aerospace has begun full-power ground runs of its Beechjet-based 400XT with the Williams International FJ44-3AP engines.

FJ44s Ground Tested on Nextant 400XT

Carl Hirschmann, Jet Aviation’s former CEO and the eldest son of company founder Carl W.

Former Jet Aviation scion dies

From his perspective as v-p of market intelligence for Embraer Executive Jets, Claudio Camelier says “The economy is getting better this year.” <br /><br /

Manufacturers see evidence of recovery

Cavu Companies has added a new hold-over time (Hot) module to its EFB-Pro performance software to help pilots ensure compliance with regulatory re quiremen

EFB-Pro software gets hot module

Richard Santulli, founder of fractional-share company NetJets, is back in the aviation business with a new business jet and helicopter leasing company call

Santulli returns to bizav with leasing company

Executive Flight Services, a subsidiary of Kansas City, Mo.-based  Executive AirShare, established a maintenance base at Midwest National  Air Center in Ke

Executive Flight Services Opens

The FAA issued a draft policy memorandum that would change  circuit-breaker layouts in aircraft electrical systems, as well as how  pilots deal with trippe

FAA’s Circuit Breaker policy could change

The FAA is seeking a civil penalty of $580,000 from Hillsboro Aviation  of Hillsboro, Ore., “for allegedly performing improper repairs,  deliberately falsi

FAA levies Fine on Hillsboro Aviation

After months of posting positive trends, the recovery in business aircraft flight activity sputtered in July, falling 0.9 percent from a year ago, accordin

Bizav flight activity recovery slows

The  NTSB has released the ­preliminary report on the crash of a Hawker  Beechcraft Premier IA during the EAA AirVenture show in Oshkosh, Wis.

Details of Roush Crash Released

Cessna Aircraft and the union that  represents 2,300 of the company’s factory workers–the International  Association of Machinists Lodge 774–began contract

Cessna, IAM Start Negotiations

Pratt & Whitney has completed assembly of its first <link news/single-news-page/article/pw1000g-core-surpasses-100-hours-of-testing-24883/ _blank>PurePower

Pratt & Whitney Assembles First PurePower PW1524G Engine for Bombardier CSeries  

David A. Lombardo

Dart Helicopter Services (DHS), a producer and distributor of more than 3,000 certified helicopter accessories, has entered into an exclusive agreement wit

Hawker Pacific Teams with Dart Helicopter Services on Parts Distribution

GE Aviation is offering an on-wing engine upgrade program for certain configurations of the CF34-3A2 that will allow the engines to go from a hard-time mai

CF34-3A2 Engine Upgrade Yields Longer Time on Wing 

Ever wished you could tell the FAA that some regulation is outdated or doesn’t make sense? You can, and the agency has a little-known means to do it.

FAA To Techs: Tell Us about Bad Regs

September 30 and October 1 are the dates for the Professional Aviation Maintenance Association’s inaugural <link http://www.pama.org/symposium _blank>North

PAMA To Hold Northeast Airworthiness Symposium

Changes to the FAR Part 21 manufacturing rule published last October 16 are slated to go into effect on April 16 next year, including a modification to the

FAA Changes Rule on Commercial Parts

Nextant Aerospace recently began full-power ground runs of its 400XT with the Williams International FJ44-3AP engines, the company announced yesterday.

Williams FJ44s Ground Tested on Nextant 400XT

Cessna Aircraft and the union that represents 2,300 of the company’s factory workers–the International Association of Machinists Lodge 774–began contract n

Cessna, IAM Start Contract Negotiations 

The Nigerian government’s announcement last week that it is buying two Falcon 7Xs and one Gulfstream G550 for its presidential fleet has yielded a rare loo

Bizjet Discounting Veil Lifted in Nigeria Order 

Nexa Advisors and NBAA are soliciting participation in a new <link http://www.nbaa.org/surveys/nexa2010 _blank>study</link> examining the value of business

New Study for Bizav Use at Small and Midsize Companies 

An Embraer E190 operated by China's Henan Airlines overshot the runway at Yichun City's Lindu Airport in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, killing

Chinese E190 Overshoots Runway, Killing at Least 43  

Following the recent delivery of its first A318 Elite, Al Jaber Aviation (AJA) yesterday became the first Middle East customer to offer an Airbus for VIP c

Al Jaber Offers First ACJ in ME Charter Market 

Chris Pocock

Oman is set to buy a further 18 <link news/single-news-page/article/plenty-of-life-is-left-for-exported-f-16-25560/ _blank>Lockheed Martin F-16</link> Bloc

Oman To Buy More F-16s, and Switch Recce Pod Provider  

Lockheed Martin has begun flight testing a new sensor for the F-35's targeting system, developed by the company's missiles and fire-control division.

New F-35 Fire-Control System Begins Flight Testing on CATBird  

Reports from Washington suggest that a new arms package being assembled for Saudi Arabia could reach record proportions, as much as $60 billion.

Huge U.S. Arms Deal with Saudi Arabia Pending

India signed a contract for 57 more <link news/single-news-page/article/bae-hawk-marketing-refocused-after-jet-trainer-eliminated-in-singapore-17134/ _blan

More Hawks for India, as BAE Eyes Iraq and Poland

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