Business & Commercial Aviation

This year’s EBACE gathering drew something like 12,000+ attendees from 100 countries, 450 exhibiting companies and 54 show aircraft on the static line next door at Geneva International Airport.

Readers respond to articles in recent issues of BCA.

“. . . the most important stall recovery step in a multi-engine airplane is the same as it is in all airplanes: Reduce the angle of attack [AOA]."

Ineffective risk management or poor aeronautical decision-making can be associated with almost any type of fatal general aviation accident.

Selected accidents and incidents in May and June 2018.

“The art of international flight operations includes the science of knowing how to pick up the pieces when they fall.”

The tables show Jet-A and avgas prices from a survey of U.S. fuel suppliers conducted in May 2018.

Avflight Corp. opened its new 5,000-sq.-ft. FBO in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in May.

Elliott Aviation has announced its addition to the Tamarack Aerospace Group’s dealer network authorizing its to install Tamarack Active Winglets at three of its facilities.

Is it possible to hack into an aircraft in flight, worm into the higher avionics functions, and take over control of the plane?

The International Transport Forum says: "Experts from the transport policy community outside of aviation will also need to be engaged in the policy debate on drones.”

Listen in as William Garvey, Editor-in-Chief of Business & Commercial Aviation interviews Steve McCaughey, Executive Director of Seaplane Pilots Association.

The tables show Jet-A and avgas prices from a survey of U.S. fuel suppliers conducted in May 2018.

Citation X program officials recall favorite moments, including increasing maximum speed rating and record-setting flight.

Textron Aviation recently chalked up orders for 52 Cessna 172 Skyhawks from two Cessna-authorized sales and service representatives in China, with deliveries expected to be completed this year.

Gulfstream Aerospace plans to build a $55 million, 202,000-sq.-ft. service center at its Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport campus in Georgia, and employ an additional 200 people there.

OneJet, a three-year-old air transportation network that provides scheduled nonstop service between small and medium-size cities primarily east of the Mississippi River using regional operating partners, is acquiring Ultimate JetCharters.

Production of the Citation X, Cessna Aircraft’s 520-kt. muscle rocket, is ending after 22 years. It was Cessna’s signature technical masterpiece of that era.

Fractional aircraft operator Flexjet plans to move its Richardson, Texas, operations to the Braniff Center at Dallas Love Field. A private terminal and 60,000-sq.-ft. maintenance hangar are scheduled to open in mid-2019.

A privacy watchdog organization has filed suit against the FAA’s Drone Advisory Committee, charging that the industry-government group has failed to release records and make subcommittee and task group meetings open to the public.

Congress recently clarified that aircraft management fees should not be subject to Federal Excise Tax, nor should flights operated by the aircraft owner. However, there are still many gray areas for business flight operations.

The FAA is investing $17 billion to move the National Airspace System through a massive modernization effort known as NextGen that ultimately will impact almost all aircraft movements.

Textron Aviation has halted production of its Cessna Turbo Skyhawk JT-A, which was certified by the FAA and European Aviation Safety Agency just last year.

Bombardier Business Aircraft has launched an online recurrent training course for Challenger 605 and 650 business jet pilots.

Workhorse Group, a maker of electric pickups and vans, has joined the small, but growing, rank of companies flight-testing full-size electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft, with the first flight of its hybrid-electric multirotor SureFly April 30 near its Cincinnati headquarters.