Joint ventures are very much in FSI’s business plan, typified by the new partnership with Textron Aviation – embracing Beechcraft, Cessna and Hawker -- which came into effect on April 1.
Honeywell’s major collaboration deal with Japanese auto parts and electric automotive specialist Denso, announced in June, signals a shift in its focus to all-electric propulsion development for the urban air mobility (UAM) market.
Dassault has completed the critical design review of its next new business aircraft, the long-range, widebody Falcon 6X twinjet, and is closing in on the preliminary design of the advanced low-noise follow-on project, which is widely dubbed the 9X.
Traditionally, the industry has been willing to accept training focused on ensuring a pilot meets minimum standards, TRU Simulation CEO David Smith told ShowNews. “That’s not good enough,” Smith said. Testing should not be performed so a pilot can check off the boxes in a pass-fail scenario. “That doesn’t inspire the workforce or inspire better piloting,” he noted.
French manufacturer Daher Group has completed the purchase of Quest Aircraft Co., which builds the Kodiak 100 utility aircraft, and is changing that company’s name to Kodiak Aircraft.
French manufacturer, Daher comes to NBAA-BACE and the indoor static display with its U.S. associations burnished, following the announcement, just before the Paris Air Show in June, that it has acquired Idaho-based Quest Aircraft and its Kodiak utility turboprop.
Not yet 10 months in, and there has already been a bumper crop of business airplanes coming to maturity this year. Not all have made it to Las Vegas this week, but most have been seen at previous NBAA conventions, discretely carrying EXPERIMENTAL titles. Now they are carrying customers.
The company’s customers will provide Air Charter Guide users access to the Tuvoli platform, while Tuvoli customers will have access to charter market intelligence.
Look closely and tucked away behind most of the eVTOL and other futuristic concepts in the North Hall’s urban air mobility/unmanned air systems innovation display area, Boeing is quietly making a statement about where its future ambitions lie in high-speed flight.
Designed, styled and built in Italy, the P2012 Traveller is a nine-passenger, piston twin with which Cape Air will re-equip most of its fleet, providing links to 35 destinations across the Northeast, Cape Cod and the islands, the Midwest, eastern Montana, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.
Gulfstream Aerospace unveiled a full-size mockup of its flagship G700 in rock-concert style with a laser light show as it announced two fleet orders for the ultra-long-range jet.
The Corporate Angel Network arranges free flights for patients traveling to treatment by utilizing empty seats on corporate aircraft. Aviation Week Network made another major donation to CAN at NBAA-BACE.
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.
Leaving Schweizer prior to its closure in 2010, he took the top executive slot at Uniflight and then a vice presidency at Safran Helicopter Engines until he began working on the Schweizer acquisition from Lockheed Martin in 2017. His private goal? Earning a rotary wing rating.
Jet Aviation comes to NBAA-BACE having just opened its new 40,000-sq.-ft. hangar and completely renovated FBO at Teterboro, N.J. – fruit of a $25 million-plus investment. A pre-opening celebration was held at the hangar in August 2019, and Jet now has final operating approval.
Flying Colours has touched “thousands” of airplanes since it began business in Peterborough, Ontario, 30 years ago. Now it is one of the world’s leading independent providers of maintenance, modifications and completions of large-cabin business jets.
The founder of AP Completion Services is looking forward to celebrating his firm’s 10th anniversary in the coming weeks when it makes its first deliveries of Bombardier Global 7500s to customers.
The fourth Million Air FBO in Texas and the 31st facility in the parent company’s network includes a 14,500-sq.-ft. FBO terminal as well as seven free-standing hangars totaling 100,000 sq. ft. and capable of accommodating aircraft as large as the Gulfstream G650ER.
Central to the bid to restore Ed Swearingen’s twinjet to production are an all-new cockpit, based around the Honeywell Epic 2.0 avionics suite, new ergonomic enhancements, electronic standby attitude/heading display and much more.
