Jessica is Executive Editor of Business & Commercial Aviation magazine. She started as Editor of ShowNews Online, Aviation Week's on-site trade show daily published at the Paris Air Show, NBAA Annual Convention, Singapore Air Show and at other significant aerospace gatherings.
Jessica has worked in television production and management consulting. While not yet a licensed pilot, Ms. Salerno has received flight instruction and has soloed.
The first Cessna CE680A Citation Latitude prototype is slated to fly in first quarter 2014, according to Scott Ernest, company CEO and president. Developed as a derivative of the Citation CE680 Sovereign, the Latitude is the first Citation in three decades to have a fuselage diameter larger than that of the Citation III. It offers passengers 6.0 ft. of headroom with a flat floor and 6.4 ft. of cabin width. It will be able to depart a 4,030-ft. sea-level runway, and fly five passengers 2,500 nm and cruise as fast as 440 KTAS.
Strong growth and renewed confidence in the market for Beechcraft aircraft will allow the Wichita planemaker to bump up its prices in 2014. Boosted by rising orders in several key sectors — and the added lift from its recent $1.4 billion order from Wheels Up — Beechcraft says that a pricing increase is now not a matter of if, but when. “We have exceeded market forecasts, and even our own plans, on deliveries so far this year and we are headed into the fourth quarter with an excellent tailwind,” says Shawn Vick, Beechcraft's executive vice president, sales and marketing.
Nov. 1— At 1742 CDT, a Beech C90 (N269JG) crashed 4 mi. southeast of the Springdale Municipal Airport, Springdale, Ark. The private pilot and passenger were fatally injured and the airplane was destroyed. The C90 was registered to J&G Aviation, LLC, and operated by the pilot, both of Camden, Ark., as a personal flight. The flight originated from Pine Bluff, Ark., about 1700 and was operating VFR with no flight plan.
