Business & Commercial Aviation

The FAA awarded the new Citation Latitude its type certification on June 5.

Jet-A and Avgas Per Gallon Fuel Prices June 2015

At the 2015 Aerospace Media Awards dinner held June 14 at Les Salons de L’Aero-Club de France in Paris

Jet Aviation has added 12 new aircraft to its global aircraft management fleet

Citing a slump in offshore oil exploration and production activity, Sikorsky Aircraft will cut more than 1,400 production-related jobs

A common trait among maintenance managers is a kind of career blindness. Most enter aviation because of the airplanes, or their talent for fixing things.

Cirrus Aircraft reached a major milestone June 15 when it delivered its 6,000th new airplane.

A new forecast by Bombardier Aerospace projects 9,000 light, medium and large business jets valued at $267 billion

Gulfstream Aerospace celebrated its third win of the Robert J. Collier Trophy by setting a city-pair record with its G650ER between Paris and Washington, D.C., where the trophy was awarded June 3.

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Eagle Aviation, a fixed-base operator, is constructing a new facility at Rohlsen Airport on St. Croix

Private aircraft crews and passengers arriving at and departing from Johannesburg’s O.R. Tambo International Airport

Jetcraft reports that last year it handled 85 aircraft transactions, the highest number in the Raleigh, North Carolina outfit’s 53-year history.

Many flight departments also coordinate with other aviation organizations, comparing standards and practices. Participating teams often are led by people who want to move up the chain of command, perhaps becoming flight department managers themselves.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed finding that aircraft emissions contribute to climate change and endanger public health

London-Biggin Hill Airport is currently undergoing an Airspace Change Proposal

Sonex Aircraft CEO Jeremy Monnett and Sonex assembly mechanic Mike Clark were killed June 2 in an accident involving a Sonex Sport Acro at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Dassault Aviation’s Falcon 5X, the first in a line of next-generation business aircraft from the French firm, rolled out in front of 500 company guests, employees and partners at its Bordeaux Merignac plant on June 2nd.

Daher has delivered a TBM 900 turboprop aircraft to its first customer in Spain.

Managers at London’s only licensed heliport say they are concerned about the impact of new helicopter-performance rules

FlightSafety International’s Gulfstream G550 simulator has received qualification from the FAA’s National Simulator Program for Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT), the first such approval.

Selected Accidents and Incidents in June and May 2015. The following NTSB information is preliminary.

Professional pilots can be perfectionists regarding preflight planning, cockpit resource management and adherence to SOPs. So, why is it that a large percentage of them aren’t equally fastidious about what’s in the fuel tanks of their aircraft?

Cleveland, Ohio-based Nextant Aerospace has opened a resale division with its first aircraft, a 2012 Nextant 400XT. Plus, Bombardier CEO Alain Bellemare discusses the Learjet 85 and his priority for business aircraft. And the EPA’s proposed finding that aircraft emissions contribute to climate change and endanger public health launches a process to set a regulatory standard — being developed by ICAO — for aircraft carbon dioxide emissions.

At the 2015 Aerospace Media Awards dinner held June 14 in Paris, B&CA Senior Editor Fred George was honored with the Best Business Aviation Award for his February cover story: "Bombardier Learjet 85 – The Window of Opportunity Slams Shut."