The recent decision by U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) to scrap his idea of privatizing the ATC system was met with relief throughout the business and general aviation communities.
Is China's airport development program a serious attempt to bring air transportation to the country's far-flung regions? Are the hundreds of airports planned going to truly open China to business aviation?
XTI Aircraft says its TriFan 600 prototype is on budget and on schedule for a first flight later this year. A unique design, it is a six-passenger vertical- and short-takeoff luxury aircraft expected to reach speeds of more than 260 kt. and have a range of slightly more than 1,200 nm.
FlightSafety International is offering FAA-approved Part 142 Night-Vision Goggle initial and recurrent training in simulators for helicopters built by Bell, Airbus and Sikorsky.
I know people who commute daily down Interstate 26. They complain bitterly about the morning and evening crawls and how the experience is worsening as more and more Yankees move to South Carolina.
Dassault Aviation took the wraps off its 5,500-nm Falcon 6X at a day-long technical briefing at Paris Le Bourget Airport on Feb. 28. The new, top-of-the-line Falcon is slated for first flight in 2021 and entry into service in 2022.
Oriens Aviation recorded a strong 2017, with the sale of five new Pilatus PC-12 aircraft to customers. The company also has secured its first new-build delivery position for 2018.
Fifty years ago, BCA covered the Piper PA35-18 commuter liner, JetStar and Fan Jet Falcons. The April 1968 issue contained the Purchase Planning Handbook; the 2018 handbook is coming out in May.
Initial wind-tunnel testing of the Cessna SkyCourier twin turboprop has been completed and Brad Thress, senior vice president-engineering, reported making "outstanding progress" in development of the all-new design.
When Duncan Aviation recently installed LoPresti Aviation "Boom Beam" high-intensity discharge (HID) lighting in a Phenom 300 light jet, the technology was described by Vice President of Sales David LoPresti as a work in progress.” Indeed it was, and is. The Sebastian, Florida-based company has already installed the HID lighting in 550 different aircraft models, from owner-flown light turboprops to widebody VIP personal jets.
StandardAero Component Services is expanding its facilities in Cincinnati and Hillsboro, Ohio, and Miami by a total of 260,000 sq. ft. at a cost of $16 million.
Piper's $3 million PA-46-600TP flagship, marketed as the M600, is settling solidly into a niche between the $2 million M500/Meridian turboprop and $4-5 million rivals.
