Business & Commercial Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Owners and pilots of two Daher TBM turboprops recently completed milestone, 2,700-nm flights over the South Pole.
Business Aviation

By Fred George
Operators love the aircraft’s speed, but most say they need as much as one more hour of range.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
British unmanned aircraft developer Blue Bear Systems Research has begun flights along a corridor established in the UK for beyond-visual-line-of-sight testing.
Business Aviation

By Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.
As long as there are helicopters, the necessity will remain for the pilot to be proficient in autorotations.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Israel Aerospace Industries reportedly has approved the development of an advanced model of the Gulfstream Aerospace G280, which it manufactures under license.
Business Aviation

By Jessica A. Salerno
Business & Commercial Aviation news from March 1969.​
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Bombardier's Global 7500 has earned European Aviation Safety Agency certification, which follows approvals from Transport Canada and the FAA.
Business Aviation

BCA visited nine flight schools in Florida (1), California (1), Hawaii (2), Montana (1) and Utah (4) to sample autorotation training in helicopters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
The Bell 407GXi light single helicopter has received type certification from the Civil Aviation Administration of China.
Business Aviation

By Jessica A. Salerno
News of business aviation promotions, appointments and honors.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
By year-end, Leonardo hopes that after a decade in the making its AW609 commercial tiltrotor finally will be awarded certification.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Managers whose fleets include helicopters are faced with multiple choices in keeping their pilots proficient in autorotations.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
State Farm has received a long-term FAA waiver to fly drones beyond the operator's visual line of sight and over people, activities that have been restricted.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey
Questions for Leslie Weinstein, manager of True-Lock Aviation Fasteners, Boise, Idaho; and founder, Turtles Fly Too (turtlesflytoo.org).
Business Aviation

An Embraer business jet was damaged when it stalled during the flare phase of a final approach, impacted the ground and came to a stop at an edge of the runway.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
EASA has approved a Rolls-Royce request to transfer design authorization to Germany from Britain as a precaution against a possible no-deal Brexit.
Business Aviation

Collaborative working groups within the helicopter industry have published a wealth of informative recommendations to help flight schools and instructors.
Business Aviation

By Kirby Harrison
Jetex Flight Support is one of the world's fastest-growing FBO chains with 29 facilities and more to come, but its Jetex Dubai facility remains its showpiece.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
The tables show Jet-A and avgas prices from a survey of U.S. fuel suppliers conducted in February 2019.
Business Aviation

The BFU took note of the December 2014 accident at Gaithersburg, Maryland, involving an EMB-500 in which the airplane stalled in icing conditions.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
Sikorsky has signed an agreement with on-demand helicopter provider Blade that will give the manufacturing company with urban-air-mobility market data.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By William Garvey
William Garvey speaks with Sheryl Barde, President and CEO of Aviation Personnel International.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Business jet deliveries to the Middle East are expected to total nearly 200 aircraft over the next decade, with 12 deliveries in 2019 rising to 20 in 2028.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Bye Aerospace, which is developing a family of electric aircraft, received a major investment by the Subaru-SBI Innovation Fund.
Business Aviation

How can you tell if it’s genuine leather? Touch it. Depending on the quality, the real McCoy can feel coarse or smooth, or anywhere in between.
Business Aviation