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Given the bucks or the ability to borrow them, buying a business jet ought to be a straightforward affair.

Next month’s June opening of the new Encore Euralair FBO at Aéroport Côte d’Azur in Nice, France, brings more U.S.-style FBO services to the European busin

A new exhibitor here at EBACE, Brussels-based Sabena Flight Academy, is at Booth No.

Newly formed Gulf charter company Prestige Jet has been set up by principals previously involved in Dubai-based charter company Gulf Jet.

One of Eurocontrol’s senior navigation managers says the business aviation community should be acting now to prepare for the introduction of the EGNOS (Eur

Arinc (Booth No.

French executive charter operator and broker Aviaxess has launched what it claims to be the first frequent-flier loyalty program in the business aviation m

In a ceremony yesterday that briefly took on the appearance of a celebratory conga line at the Bombardier stand (Booth No.

Phoenix, Arizona-based engine and avionics manufacturer Honeywell (Booth No.

Almost 70 years after contributing to the aerial security net around London during the Battle of Britain, Biggin Hill Airport is again to secure the safety

The expanding business aircraft market in the Asia Pacific region will be one of the key issues that will be debated at the Asian Aerospace International E

Computer-generated virtual cabin concepts for Boeing’s latest large bizliners are appearing with some regularity as the order book for the executive/VIP ve

It can take up to two years to outfit a VIP widebody jet.

The twin-engine Eurocopter EC  135 helicopter, well established in the emergency medical services and law enforcement sectors, is gaining greater acce

Jet Aviation was acquired by European private equity firm Permira Funds in 2005 and, barely a year later, bought major independent aviation services and co

The Solar Impulse has made significant progress toward its aim of being the first solar-powered aircraft able to fly at night.

The ultra-light Akoya, an original amphibian twin-seater, is to make its first flight by this summer.

Skylliance, a charter partner program set up by Jet Aviation for smaller air-taxi companies and first announced at EBACE 2006, now has five members: Homac

Dassault Falcon Jet’s Little Rock, Arkansas completion center is ramping up its capacity to meet demand for Dassault’s newly certified Falcon 7X, while con

Rolls-Royce, widely known for heavy engines, such as the Trent powering the Airbus A380 and Boeing B747, is in fact a pre-eminent provider of business jet

The Middle East Business Aviation Association (MEBAA) has grown to 41 members since the last EBACE show, up from 30.

Operators of jets powered by Honeywell TFE731 engines with digital electronic engine controls (DEECs) will be able to participate in the fault-code reporti

Nayak Aircraft Services Group, headquartered in Cologne, Germany, has teamed with LoPresti Speed Merchants of Vero Beach, Florida, to certify, market, inst

Boeing Business Jets president Steven Hill couldn’t help upstaging himself in a press conference yesterday, initially ignoring the announced subject of lar

Piaggio Aero Industries’ speedy Avanti II, long acknowledged as the fastest turboprop aircraft in the world, is now even faster.

At EBACE, Piagg

At the Embraer booth (No.

Bombardier Aerospace is another manufacturer celebrating the rapid growth of European business aviation, announcing that Zug, Switzerland-based VistaJet ha

An order for two Grob SPn jets to newly formed Abu Dhabi-based operator Prestige Jet, announced here yesterday, marks a breakthrough into the growing Middl

European politicians and the wider environmental lobby have made it clear that aviation is firmly in their sights in the struggle to halt what is broadly p

To meet surging demand for its executive jets, Airbus is appointing Stork Fokker in the Netherlands as an additional completion center and reviving the def