Business & Commercial Aviation

Questions for Neil Book, president and CEO of Jet Support Services Inc. of Chicago.

Readers' Feedback (December 2017): Letters To The Editor

The entire information industrial complex is seeing enormous genuine potential in artificial intelligence, big data and machine-learning.

Most pilots have experienced a black-hole approach or departure—a nighttime phenomenon that, if gone unrecognized, can lead to disaster.

The tables above show results of a price survey of U.S. fuel suppliers performed in November 2017.

Tradewind Aviation has launched an interline agreement with United Airlines for travel to certain Caribbean destinations.

Rectrix MRO at Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport in Westfield, Mass., is now an authorized dealer for Rockwell Collins.

These new features bring advanced capabilities and even more functionality to new and existing GTN 650/750 navigators. These new features and capabilities for the GTN 650/750 are available immediately for hundreds of fixed-wing aircraft makes and models.

West Star Aviation announced its Chattanooga, Tennessee (CHA) facility has entered into agreement with Embraer to receive Authorized Service Center approval for all Legacy models by year-end 2017 with the Lineage 1000 and 1000E and Phenom 100 and 300 aircraft in 2018.

Teterboro Airport was the most searched business aviation airport for users of acukwik.com in October 2017, according to site traffic reports. Meanwhile, an analysis of the site traffic suggests business aviation’s role in relief after the late summer hurricanes has stabilized and, in some places, subsided.

Fast Five with Janine Iannarelli, President of Par Avion Ltd.

Selected accidents and incidents in September 2017. The following NTSB information is preliminary.

With Honeywell's HTF7700L turbofan newly certified for the Cessna Longitude, the engine family powers almost all super-midsize jets on the market today.

Textron Aviation has delivered its first fully configured Hawker 400XPR. The aircraft, which is owned by a Seattle-based company, was upgraded at Textron's Wichita Service Center with new winglets, Williams International FJ-44 engines, a refurbished interior and a new paint scheme.

A U.S. Bankruptcy Court in California has approved Zetta Jet's request to appoint a Chapter 11 trustee and the U.S. Trustee's Office was expected to act accordingly and quickly.

The TrueNorth Avionics brand will be transitioning to Satcom Direct in the coming months, reflecting the integration of the two companies.

Bombardier Aerospace and its largest union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, have reached a new collective labor agreement at its Wichita facility.

The Corporate Angel Network raised $435,000 during its charity auction at the NBAA-BACE on Oct. 11.

Wheels Up, the private membership lift provider, reports it closed an equity-based fund raising round of $117.5 million and increased its enterprise value to $1 billion—making it akin to a so-called unicorn in start-up investment circles.

Companies that use business aviation to further their success outperform those that do not, according to a new Nexa Advisors study of S&P 500 companies.

Italy's Leonardo has moved another step toward bringing its AW609 tiltrotor to market with the certification of the aircraft's Pratt & Whitney Canada powerplant.

Dassault Aviation's long-delayed Falcon 5X development program is facing a further holdup after Safran Aircraft Engines encounters new problems with the aircraft's Silvercrest turbofans during recent ground and flight tests.

The TAG Aviation Maintenance Service Center in Geneva has expanded its on-site aircraft refurbishment services by adding an off-the-shelf cabin wood revarnishing process for aircraft cabin interiors.

Duncan Aviation's satellite avionics shops will offer flat-rate installations of LoPresti's BoomBeam High Intensity Discharge lighting systems on a variety of business aircraft.

The NBAA's 2017 Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition attracted around 27,000 attendees and some 100 aircraft on display at Henderson (Nevada) Executive Airport and within the convention hall.