Business & Commercial Aviation

NASA has selected Lockheed Martin to build an X-plane to show that sonic booms can be reduced to a level low enough to justify lifting the ban on civil supersonic flight over land.

Duncan Aviation has completed installation of the newly released Gogo Avance L3 Wi-Fi system in a Cessna Citation 560XLS.

The general aviation industry suffered a slight setback in 2017, with revenues dipping 3.6% compared to those in 2016, according to the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA).

Honeywell's Aspire 400, its newest satellite communications system for flight crews and passengers, is now available.

Bye Aerospace's battery-powered Sun Flyer 2 took flight for the first time April 10 at Denver's Centennial Airport.

With a surging market and operations climbing, the outlook for the avionics business has never been brighter, right? Never mind the Wall Street turbulence—things are looking up for business aviation.

Flying-car developer Terrafugia says it hopes to add at least another 50 employees to its payroll by the year-end.

There is a pilot-staffing crunch coming to business aviation that could have a severe impact on safety of flight as air carriers suck up top talent from business and charter flight departments.

Mission Aviation Fellowship International recently ordered five Cessna Caravan 208 turboprops for its operations in Papua New Guinea, with the option for an additional two aircraft.

Frugal and Gulfstream are in deep harmony at a high-energy business that is keeping legacy members of one of the best-known purpose-built business jet series alive and humming.

Dublin Municipal Airport began selling unleaded aviation fuel for piston aircraft in March, making it the first Texas airport to offer Swift Fuels' UL94 unleaded fuel to customers.

Former FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said the effort to spin off U.S. air traffic control (ATC) from the FAA failed because it became too focused on the structure of a proposed new entity.

The U.S. Air Force has allocated $250 million in its fiscal 2019 budget to equip 20 aircraft types for ADS-B Out position reporting.

FlightSafety International has designed a three-day leadership workshop for flight department personnel called"Leadership Elements for Flight Department Professionals."

Jet Midwest has acquired the first of four Gulfstream GIV aircraft with Rolls-Royce Tay 611-8 engines as its first commitment to a Gulfstream product.

Naval aviator Lt. Cmdr. Anthony "Pampers" Kochanski is emblematic of military pilots who are lured away by the airlines because of pay and benefits.

Tamarack Aerospace Group received additional EASA and FAA approvals for its active winglets on the Cessna Citation business jet line, with new supplemental type certificate (STC) authorizations for the C525A series including the CJ2 and CJ2+ aircraft. Tamarack already has approvals on the C525 and C525B CJ series.

Daher introduced the latest features and functionality on the Garmin G3000 all-glass integrated flight deck configuration for the TBM 930 — the high-end model in Daher’s turboprop aircraft family.

New from Cloudbase are sunglasses that feature Carl Zeiss lenses chosen specifically for pilots. These lenses are designed to provide high contrast, outstanding optical clarity and excellent UV protection.

The headset has phone and audio interface and, smart audio muting that allows you to choose what auxiliary audio you hear, including automatic muting of aux audio when the intercom is active.

Continental Motors Group and the Aviation Industry Corp. of China have received three new type certificate validations from the Civil Aviation Administration of China.

The number of used business jets available for sale in February fell 8% from a year ago to 5.5% of the active fleet.

News of business aviation promotions, appointments and honors.

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

Soon the NTSB will issue its probable cause of the May 15, 2017, crash of a Gates Learjet 35A just short of Runway 1 at Teterboro Airport, New Jersey.