By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Jet Support Services Inc. (JSSI) and Hong Kong-based Metrojet, a business aircraft services provider, have signed an airframe maintenance agreement to offer customers on JSSI maintenance programs the ability to access airframe maintenance service at a Metrojet facility.
By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Embraer has begun delivering the initial Legacy 500 jets assembled at its Melbourne, Florida, facility. The first was handed over to an undisclosed customer in the U.S.
After all, shouldn’t dining en route to Paris be no less elegant than the $60 million private jet that is whisking its passengers across the Atlantic at Mach 0.85?
By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. has a program called Aircraft Ownership Service, a suite of aircraft maintenance and flight operations services that allow aircraft owners, flight departments and management companies to customize to their needs, the company said.
By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
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.
By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
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.
By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Pratt & Whitney Canada unveils the first significant information and images about research and development tests of electronic engine controls and an integrated propeller controller for a new 2,000-shp-rated PT6.
These graphs are designed to illustrate the performance of Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet under a variety of range, payload, speed and density altitude conditions.
By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
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.
By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
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.
By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
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.
By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
The tables show results of a price survey of U.S. fuel suppliers conducted in October 2017 by Aviation Research Group/U.S. It reflects prices reported from over 200 FBOs located within the 48 contiguous states.
The DU-875 units can be installed in the DU-870 tray without making any wiring changes. The LCD units also permit replacement of flight-deck displays one at a time or many at the same time.
By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
VistaJet has launched VistaJet Direct, a digital membership app that provides members access to empty-leg flights on VistaJet's fleet of more than 70 aircraft.
By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
With firm orders for 12 of its new SKYe SH09 rotorcraft and letters of interest for about 100 more, Marenco Swiss Helicopters recently began flying its third prototype and anticipates adding a fourth to the certification program in early 2018.
By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Pilatus is ceasing production of its PC-6 Porter multirole aircraft, which has been produced without interruption since 1959. Production will end in early 2019.