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.
SyberJet says it plans to return the SJ30 light jet to production within two years and has selected Cedar City, Utah, as its headquarters and assembly plant location. MT LLC, which acquired the program from bankruptcy in April 2011, renamed the operation SyberJet. State and local officials offered MT a $43 million package to locate in Cedar City, as well as expand the facilities of SyberJet's sister company, Metalcraft Technologies, which is also based there. In the works under various owners since 1986, the Ed Swearingen-designed jet was finally certified in 2004.
Aircell announced that it has signed an agreement with P3 Voith Aerospace GmbH, Hamburg, Germany, to develop several new Supplemental Type Certificates (STCs) for the Aviator 200 inflight connectivity system in the European market. Under the program, Aircell will provide complete, no-cost STCs to operators installing an Aviator 200 system at an authorized Aircell dealer and activating a new SwiftBroadband service plan with Aircell. The company is seeking aircraft to be used as the certification platform for future STCs. Aircell