If Airbus Helicopters proceeds much further with its line of ever-more-luxurious choppers, it will soon be fitting rotor blades to a feather bed.

Had it not been for the maiden flight on Monday of the second prototype Pilatus PC-24, Williams International would have been announcing 4,998 FJ44 engines flying and 9,999,999 airborne hours generated by them.

PPG Industries’ aerospace transparencies group is in Vegas in the light of its recent receipt of Parts Manufacturer Approval for its new-design, glass-faced acrylic windshields for Hawker-related business jets.