Business & Commercial Aviation

Bombardier celebrates delivery of the first Global 6500 to HK Bella-wings Jet Ltd. of Hong Kong, a business jet management company.

Innovative Solutions & Support has received FAA approval for an autothrottle system that helps protect against one-engine inoperative catastrophic loss-of-control accidents.

The National Air Transportation Association's Loss of License Insurance Program now has more than 1,000 pilots enrolled.

Safran joins supersonic jet developer Aerion as a “major partner” for its 12-seat AS2 Mach 1.4 corporate transport.

Gulfstream Aerospace opens its second MRO facility in Southern California with a new service center at Van Nuys Airport.

The U.S. Senate has confirmed Michael Graham and Thomas Chapman to serve on the NTSB.

Latecoere is acquiring Bombardier’s electrical wiring interconnection system assets and assuming its related workforce in Mexico.

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association is planning three 2020 Fly-ins.

Clay Lacy Aviation is performing 10-year inspections for Embraer Phenoms at Embraer service centers at two California airports.

Piaggio Aerospace signs a $221 million contract with the Italian Ministry of Defense for nine P.180 Avanti EVO turboprop aircraft.

Embraer delivered the first Praetor 500 midsize business jet to its launch customer, fractional travel provider Flexjet.

Piper Aircraft has begun the application process for its 2020 Apprenticeship Program, which is designed to qualify participants as a journeyman in aircraft assembly.

Cirrus Aircraft begins delivering 2020 G6 SR Series piston aircraft with improvements.

The explosion that rocked Textron Aviation’s Plant 3 in Wichita appears to have caused no harm to the company’s Cessna 408 SkyCourier turboprop program.

Gulfstream Aerospace has delivered its 600th G550.

FAA type certification of the Bombardier Global 5500 and Global 6500 follows Transport Canada and European Union Aviation Safety Agency approvals.

The FAA has sent a letter to Blackbird Air, which created a web-based application to connect passengers with pilots, emphasizing the agency’s regulations regarding pilots who transport paying passengers.

Fractional ownership company NetJets has launched a subsidiary offering an international network of safety experts to provide travel security and personal protection to high-profile travelers.

HondaJet operator WiJet reportedly has shuttered its French subsidiary and is conducting flights through subsidiaries in Luxembourg and Belgium where operations have grown.

Kurt Robinson, President and Chairman of Robinson Helicopter Co., discusses the movement toward urban air mobility, single pilot IFR and electrification of aviation with William Garvey, Editor-in-Chief of Business & Commercial Aviation magazine.

It is a myth that Hurricane Dorian decimated the entire Bahamian archipelago.

Selected accidents and incidents in November 2019. The following NTSB information is preliminary.

Without a professional flight attendant aboard, and in the absence of formal emergency procedures training, most business jet travelers are ill-prepared for contingencies,

Tourism represents about 60% of the Bahamian economy.

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