Business & Commercial Aviation

Although ONE Aviation intends the Williams FJ33-powered Eclipse 700, now under development, to succeed the Eclipse 550, the company says the latter is still in production.

Embraer has made significant improvements to the Phenom 100EV that are aimed at helping it rise above the flood of entry-level light jets in the pre-owned market.

The midair of a Cessna 310 and Piedmont 727 near Hendersonville, N.C., on July 19, 1967, has touched off pleas from politicians and newspapers for lightplane restrictions in terminal areas.

This past July, Gulfstream Aerospace delivered its 550th G550 ultra-long-range jet, making it the most successful model in the plane maker's history.

New U.S. Transportation Department transparency requirements may result in delays or stranded charter passengers.

Could there be a more ideal pairing of an airplane and floats? That was our first thought when we settled comfortably on to Lake Winnebago this past July while flying the Quest Kodiak 100.

The number of U.S.-registered business jet and turboprop accidents, including fatalities, fell during the first quarter of 2017 compared to the same time a year ago.

Selected U.S. aircraft accidents and incidents in July 2017. The NTSB information is preliminary.

New NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt is a good man with a passion for safety.

July was a peak month for business aviation departures in Europe, with a total of 87,826 departures, a 2.5% increase from a year ago.

Flying Colours installs the Rockwell Collins Future Airspace Navigation System 1/A and ADS-B Out equipment on a Canadian-registered Challenger 604.

Russian Helicopters Holding Co., along with Iran Helicopters Support and Renewal Co., has finished testing the Ka-226T for usability at ambient temperatures up to +50C.

Bombardier delivered 36 business jets in the second quarter, down from 42 in 2016, the company reports.

SkyQuest International, based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, recorded July aircraft sales of one Fokker 50, one Quest Kodiak 100 and one AgustaWestland AW139 helicopter.

National Gay Pilots Association recently opened a chapter in Canada, boosting the organization to 13 chapters based there and in Britain and the U.S.

In July, a Cessna 182 powered by an SMA compression-ignition engine flew nonstop from Olympia, Washington, to EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on just 80 gal. of Jet-A.

GlobeAir, a private jet on-demand operator, recorded a 53% increase in flights to London during the first five months of 2017 compared to a year ago.

ForeFlight has introduced Scout, a portable, dual-band ADS-B receiver that delivers inflight weather and traffic information to the ForeFlight Mobile app.

Hospital Wing, a Memphis, Tennessee-based nonprofit air medical transport service, has taken delivery of a new Airbus H130 helicopter, joining three H130s already in service.

A compliance issue that stopped air charter operators from adding certain Pilatus PC-12 single-engine aircraft to their certificates has been resolved, the National Air Transportation Association said.

It's back-to-school time and Textron Aviation is providing 15 Cessna Skyhawk 172 trainers and other new flight-training aircraft.

The first Embraer Legacy 500 midsize business jet to be assembled at the airframer's Melbourne, Florida, facilities made its initial flight July 13 and is to be delivered this quarter.

Transactions of used business jets rose 5.6% during the first six months of 2017 compared to a year ago, although the jets are taking an average of 12 days longer to sell compared to last year, according to JetNet.

Aircraft Industries (LET) reports its L-410NG high-wing twin turboprop will enter production in 2018. The Czech airframer says it has several orders for the new model.

Honda Aircraft plans to increase production of the HondaJet at its Greensboro, North Carolina, manufacturing campus from 3-4 aircraft per month to a full capacity of 6-8 per month, or about 80 per year.