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Dassault boosts production to reduce order backlogs

Aircraft sales numbers often catch the big headlines, but it is the delivery figures that matter most to aircraft manufacturers.
Avionics

Universal upgrades EFB trip planning

Universal Weather and Aviation is demonstrating its new electronic flight bag CD-ROM and online editions of its UVTripPlanner airport information database
Aircraft

Proponents say VLJs will revolutionize Euro air travel

Eurocontrol plans to launch a so-called Very Light Jet Integration Platform (VIP) to discuss issues relating to the introduction of the new generation of b
Safety

Study Claims Aviation Emissions Kill Hundreds a Year

FAA Administrator Marion Blakey said that “aircraft greenhouse gas emissions might become a serious barrier to aviation growth long-term” in a speech last
ATC

FAA Study Says NextGen Will Help Reduce Delays

An analysis of 56 airports’ operational capacities has concluded that the FAA must “move forward aggressively” to implement the NextGen system or risk furt
Charter & Fractional

NetJets Europe Orders 32 Hawker 4000s

Less than two months after completion of the sale of Raytheon Aircraft to the investment firms GS Capital Partners and Onex Partners for $3.3 billion, the
Accidents

Legacy Cockpit Voice Recorder Strengthens Pilots’ Case

Cockpit voice recordings from the Embraer Legacy that collided with the Gol Airlines 737 over the Amazon last September indicate that the two business-jet
Aircraft

Dassault Expands Use of Winglets, Adds Them to 2000EX

Dassault revealed a new Falcon 2000 with winglets at EBACE in Geneva yesterday.
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Spectrum aims its bizjets at airline passengers

Spectrum Aeronautical, the California-based start-up manufacturer, said it is taking orders for its all-composite business jets “faster than we can build t
Avionics

Honeywell flight display may be adaptable to 3-D airport maps

Future versions of Honeywell’s integrated primary flight display (IPFD) may include 3-D airport maps that would give pilots a clear view of the entire airp
FBOs

Gestair to invest $115 million in its fleet

Gestair Private Aviation has announced a $115 million investment over the next four years to further expand its 30-aircraft fleet.
Finance, Taxes, Insurance

New jet financing firm is created

Guggenheim Partners and UBS have formed Guggenheim Aero Finance, a corporate jet financing company that will combine worldwide reach with a streamlined app
Finance, Taxes, Insurance

Jetalliance offers new kind of aircraft lease

Austrian-based operator Jetalliance announced here on Tuesday that it is now offering what it claims to be a new kind of business aircraft financing called

Global economic growth is fueling business aviation

Much of the unprecedented recent growth in sales of business aircraft has been driven by the international market, where advantageous exchange rates have m
Engines

Venerable King Air 200 is refreshed with new engines

The newest version of the 12,500-pound-mtow Beechcraft King Air B200 already boasts Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 avionics, which the smaller 10,000-pound-m
Aircraft

PrivatAir’s jet card practically selling itself

PrivatAir has taken $10 million in deposits for its Select jet card, which enables customers to pre-buy blocks of flight hours.
Aircraft

Eclipse wins kudos for ‘green’ fire suppression

Eclipse Aviation (Booth No.
Aircraft

Honeywell TFE731-50 to enter service on new Hawker 900XPs

Honeywell has delivered the first batch of 32 TFE731-50R engines destined for Hawker’s new 900XP midsize business jet.
Aircraft

Cirrus Aviation adds G200 and Legacy 600 to stable

Cirrus Aviation, based in Saarland, Germany, is adding a new Gulfstream G200 and a second Legacy 600 to its fleet, which will  expand to include 17 ai

‘Nice’ work boosts LHT to OEM status

Lufthansa Technik (Booth No.
Aircraft

FSI adding Hawker 750 sim at F’boro Airport

FlightSafety International (FSI) plans to build a Hawker 750 simulator for installation at its UK training center at Farnborough Airport an hour southwest
Aircraft

Lufthansa, Bombardier seek expansion in Germany

Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation Services (LBAS) celebrated its 10th birthday in Berlin on Saturday night with news of an expansion plan that will see the joi
Avionics

Gulfstream switches to Collins HUD

Rockwell Collins’ new HGS-5860 is the first head-up display (HUD) system with an LCD projector to be certified on a business jet–Dassault’s Falcon 7X.
Aircraft

EASA delivers Mustang’s certificate

Cessna has received European Aviation Safety Agency airworthiness approval for the Citation Mustang, the first very light jet to be certified on this side
Aircraft

Vaunted Eclipse VLJ takes EU road trips

Eclipse Aviation president and CEO Vern Raburn did not wax eloquent with regard to the Avio NG (next generation) avionics upgrade program for the Eclipse 5
Aircraft

Embraer’s Phenom 100 preps for flight

Cessna and Eclipse are about to feel some Brazilian heat.

Adam invades China with order for 50 A700 VLJs

Hainan Zhong Hangtai General Aviation Airlines Company, the China-based operating entity of Los Angeles, California company Ameritec, placed a firm order f
Aircraft

Skytime inks a Lear 40XR and a 45XR

Bombardier yesterday announced the sale of two Learjets here at EBACE to European Skytime of Gloucestershire in the UK.
Aircraft

New King Air 90 to fly with Collins Pro Line 21

Hawker Beechcraft’s latest King Air, the model C90GTi, is joining its larger siblings with a new Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 avionics suite.