The Top 10 Roundup From Business Aviation Week 2020

COVID-19 has caused a divide in business aviation. This is not like the bifurcation of the market after the 2008 economic crisis, when wealth destruction and over-production caused light-jet demand to collapse while sales of large-cabin jets continued largely unscathed.

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They never happened or were only technology testers, but somebody has to lay the foundations and take the hard knocks that come before success.

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Ron Draper is the president and CEO of Textron Aviation, which builds and services Beechcraft, Cessna and Hawker products. He tells Molly McMillin, editor-in-chief of The Weekly of Business Aviation, how his company has been weathering the COVID-19 crisis and why the recovery will be different from the 2008 financial crash. 

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Data from market intelligence specialist WingX breaks down 1.3 million bizav departures—type-by-type, region-by-region in the March-August  period—to show which aircraft were working hardest during the pandemic. 

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Airbus on Oct. 6 unveiled the latest in its family of corporate business jets, the A220-based ACJ TwoTwenty, with orders for six aircraft.

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Projects to demonstrate the viability of electric propulsion have gathered momentum over the last several months.

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Every aspect of the aviation ecosystem has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing downturn in travel demand, but in a small number of instances the effects have been beneficial. One area to have seen an enhanced and increased focus is sustainability.

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With many aircraft spending more time on the ground than in the air, owners and operators are performing maintenance that might otherwise have waited. A number of MRO houses are proceeding with expansions planned before COVID-19 hit, others in part in response to it.

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David Coleal is the outgoing president of Bombardier Aviation. Molly McMillin, editor-in-chief of The Weekly of Business Aviation, spoke to him just days before his departure was announced on Oct. 1 for Business Aviation Week 2020 about how the business jet-maker was adapting to the new business environment following the outbreak of COVID-19.

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Only two years have passed since the U.S. Air Force canceled the $3.2 billion Joint Stars recapitalization programs, under which 17 business jets would have been acquired with a new generation of synthetic aperture radars.

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