Business & Commercial Aviation

Being on call 24/7 is driving burned-out business aviation pilots to the airlines, and flight departments are reacting.

News of business aviation promotions, appointments and honors.

There is no shortage of bad ideas out there, but the ones that concern me are old sayings with a history of being wrong yet are still embraced by some pilots.

The 18,920 lb. of thrust produced by General Electric's Passport 20-19BB1A capitalizes on the multi-millions of dollars the company invested in the CFM Leap-1 engine family developed for commercial jetliners.

Questions for Chad Cundiff, president of the Astronautics Corp. of America in Milwaukee.

Stuart Jet Center in Stuart, Florida, has added a U.S. Customs facility at Witham Field to streamline international travel.

Several fatal accidents involving breakdowns in situational awareness provide evidence that more needs to be done to standardize and simplify interfaces.

To create value while retaining pilots and ensuring a balance between their work and personal lives is a daily challenge for an aviation department manager.

The Arab Air Carriers Organization has signed a memorandum of understanding with MedAire for aviation security and assistance services.

The FADEC-equipped SPU300[BA] has the highest power- to-weight ratio of any engine in its class and boasts an ex- ceptionally wide operating envelope.

"Ozone converters are one-piece assemblies consisting of a ceramic honeycomb core covered by a metal catalyst."

The FAA has selected Wing, the drone delivery subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet, to participate in the agency’s UAS traffic management pilot program.

The $75 million Global 7500 is the largest, roomiest, farthest-flying and most expensive purpose-built business jet created by a general-aviation manufacturer.

There is a potentially serious "poison" at high altitude that can cause long-term health effects and about which you have likely never been trained. It's ozone.

FlightSafety International has added new training courses for Airbus Helicopters at its Denver Learning Center.

Business & Commercial Aviation news from April 1969.​

Jet Aviation has completed the rebranding of its six Hawker Pacific FBOs in Australia under the Jet Aviation name. Jet acquired Hawker Pacific in May 2018.

These graphs show the performance of the Bombardier Global 7500 under a variety of range, payload, speed and density altitude conditions.

Here are three aircraft cabin zone studies.

Bombardier received the Grand Laureate in business aviation for its new Global 7500, at Aviation Week Network's Laureate Awards honoring aerospace achievements.

Dassault Aviation recently acquired TAG Aviation's European maintenance activities and the MRO operations of the ExecuJet Group, which offers product support at several locations worldwide.

The use of the GPS position for control is probably the single smartest idea since radar and the ILS.

The National Research Council recommends the FAA take effective measures to ensure the FAR addressing ozone exposure is met on all flights..

The Global 7500 flight deck has four, 14- by 11-in. landscape-configuration flat-panel displays, large enough so that each can be split into two or more windows.

After a near-decade hiatus, Schweizer helicopters are returning to production, with two S-300s later this year paving the way for full-rate production in 2020.