Business & Commercial Aviation

The NTSB recently issued its 2019-20 Most Wanted List, and prominent among the top 10 is "Improve the Safety of Part 135 Aircraft Flight Operations."

Bombardier recently delivered a Global 7500 to the model's first European customer: Formula One driver and world champion Niki Lauda.

Respecting different cultures while serving is high on a flight attendant’s list of considerations, as explained by two veterans who know.

Thomas Hirschmann, former Jet Aviation chairman and CEO, died April 3 in Zurich of an undisclosed illness. He was 64.

The job of the business aviation flight attendant is one of myriad opportunities and challenges.

The accurate display of airspeed information at high altitude is vital because the margins between the low-speed and high-speed buffet margins can be thin.

The Corporate School of Etiquette was launched by a former corporate flight attendant to focus on the finer areas of service skills and culinary arts training.

Although transport aircraft have three independent speed-sensing systems, environmental factors such as high-altitude ice crystals have the potential to remove this redundancy and create simultaneous failures.

The high-speed, single-engine turboprop that has become a business aviation mainstay has roots in the 1950s-vintage Morane-Saulnier MS.760 Paris jet.

Icon Aircraft, maker of the amphibious Icon A5, has opened its first sales and demonstration center, at Santa Monica Municipal Airport in California.

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BCA business aviation product and service previews.

Questions for William Korner, chairman and CEO of Flight Research Inc. and The International Flight Test Institute, Mojave Air & Space Port, Mojave, California.

L3 Commercial Aviation has placed an order for up to 240 new Piper aircraft to expand and modernize the training fleet at its airline academies.

A pair of Bombardier Global 6000s have been delivered to Turkey to be prepared for a conversion process that will turn them into standoff jammer platforms.

VistaJet recently launched VistaPet, which it calls the most comprehensive program designed to ensure all passengers feel welcome.

Bombardier announced enhancements to its support capabilities for business aircraft customers in China on the eve of the Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition.

An electronics travel case designed to protect and organize everything from headsets to small cables. The PowerShuttle Plus will fit a Bose A20 or a Lightspeed Zulu 3 snug.

This month, William Garvey talks with Chad Cundiff, President of Astronautics Corporation of America.

Eagle Jet Solutions has acquired Front Range Aviation at Great Falls International Airport in Montana and is changing its name to Great Falls Jet Center.

Kopter Group, the manufacturer of the SH09 single-engine light helicopter, hopes to eventually assemble as many as 100 of them annually at a Louisiana facility.

Honeywell's Turbine-Powered Civil Helicopter Purchase Outlook is forecasting 4,000 civil helicopters could be delivered by manufacturers over the next five years.

True Blue Power, which makes lithium-ion batteries, has introduced fifth-generation main-ship batteries engineered to address lead-acid and NiCad challenges.

TAG Farnborough FBO says it does it all and more, as might be expected of a facility on an airfield that says it offers unparalleled services and amenities.

Avflight Corp. has expanded into Canada at Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport by acquiring Kelly Western Jet Center.