Gulfstream’s contribution to environmentally sustainable flight operations has moved up a gear at NBAA-BACE, with the company announcing a new scheme to assist customers in offsetting their emissions and making its first carbon-neutral flights when it brought five airplanes to Nevada for the event.
It has been almost a year since Piaggio entered insolvency, but the lawyer charged with turning the airframer around can see light at the end of the tunnel.
Cloaked in secrecy until unveiled this week by Rolls-Royce as the powerplant for Gulfstream’s long-range G700, the Pearl 700 has emerged as the second engine to evolve from the company’s Advance2 demonstrator program and is poised for first flight on the aircraft maker’s newest flagship.
It’s been a hectic first year for the International Aircraft Dealers Association, which offers the world’s only accreditation program for dealers and the only certification program for individual brokers.
The satellite communications provider has announced that its Jet ConneX product, an inflight Wi-Fi system for business jets, has been installed on its 600th aircraft.
Comlux has now ordered a total of 20 Airbus corporate jets over the last decade. “We are the No. 1 client ever of Airbus in the VIP market,” says Comlux executive chairman and CEO Richard Gaona.
The addition of interior specialists F/List to Bombardier’s UK Service Center at Biggin Hill underscores the airport’s growing role as a center for business aviation in Europe.
The next generation of turboprop engines is unveiled here by Pratt & Whitney Canada with the PT6E series, the E denoting “digitally connected,” making flying easier and reducing hourly operating costs by up to 15%.
Global connectivity expert Satcom Direct can synchronize an entire aircraft mission with the flight department with the unveiling of its latest data product, SD PostFlight, at the show here today.
Thales plans to certify a wearable head-up display (HUD) for business aviation that will confer the operational benefits of a HUD at half the cost, the company says.
Avfuel, citing “an effort to further carbon neutrality goals in the aviation industry,” teamed with its affiliated Avflight Salina FBO in Kansas to provide SAF – sustainable aviation (jet) fuel – for aircraft headed to NBAA-BACE 2019.
The business aviation sector has set itself some ambitious targets in terms of sustainability and emissions reduction. It is unlikely these goals will be reached without a broader take-up of sustainable fuel. But a key barrier to adoption remains the higher price of SAF versus traditional jet fuel.
Business aviation has made huge strides in the Middle East over the last decade or so, but growth is being hampered by high prices and a shortage of suitably sized aircraft for charter.
General Electric’s Catalyst turboprop is doing well and exceeding performance predictions, but due mainly to the challenges of testing for more stringent certification requirements, development for its first application – the Cessna Denali – is behind schedule, says the company.
The final two of 155 airports to receive ADS-B, Akron-Canton Airport and Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport, both in Ohio, became operational last month. “This brings the operational rollout of ADS-B baseline services to a successful conclusion, on schedule and within budget, well in advance of January 1, 2020, the date by which aircraft flying in certain, controlled airspace must be equipped with the technology,” says the FAA.
Aimed at toppling the 7,700-nm-range Bombardier Global 7500 as the reigning large-cabin uber jet, the $75 million G700 is the largest, heaviest, roomiest, most luxurious and, very likely, the longest-range business aircraft yet built by the U.S. manufacturer.
Bombardier unveiled the new six-seat Learjet 75 Liberty this summer – a revamped and lower-cost version of its iconic aircraft with fewer seats and options – and customer interest is strong, the company said.
