The world’s largest fractional operator, NetJets, has reaffirmed its commitment to Bombardier’s Global 7500 ultra-long-range, high-speed business jet, and will take delivery of the first one in 2021.
Japan is represented in force at this year’s convention, committed to spreading the word that the country is eager to accept both business air travelers and tourists.
Newest Aerion team member Honeywell will play a critical role in helping position the A2 supersonic aircraft in the correct atmospheric conditions to ensure that when it is flying at Mach 1-plus overland, no sonic boom ever reaches the ground.
Thomas Flohr, founder of VistaJet, announced the creation of Dubai-based holding company, Vista Global. The new entity concluded the purchase of on-demand operator XOJet.
TAC Air is touting history as it invests $140 million to refurbish a 60-year-old Braniff facility at Dallas Love Field (KDAL), resulting in a new FBO and a consolidating facility for fractional operator Flexjet. TAC Air cites the Texas Historic Commission as a partner as it repurposes a DalFort Aerospace building originally known as the Braniff Airlines Operations and Maintenance Base.
Supersonic business jet developer Aerion has officially launched preliminary design of its 12-seater, Mach 1.4-capable AS2 and revealed ambitions to develop bigger and faster follow-on variants, including potential commercial models.
A new Aviation Week Intelligence Network forecast predicts worldwide deliveries of 8,683 business jets and 2,877 turboprops from 2019-2028, exhibiting a 1.4% annual growth rate.
Big-cabin jets—ranging from super midsize through business liner classes—over the next five years represent 62% of the units and 87% of the value of planned new jet purchases in 2018 dollars.
Bombardier’s new Global 5500 and Global 6500 long-range business jets have completed 70% of their flight testing and are on track for delivery in 2019.
The FAA has granted Textron Aviation a temporary exemption to meeting fuel tank flammability requirements that would allow Citation Longitude deliveries to begin but require a retrofit of delivered aircraft by Jan. 31, 2020.
Plans for an improved version of the Eclipse very light jet may once again be possible after Chinese investors rescued its parent company from Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week.
Satcom Direct will cement the company’s position as a single end-to-end source for all business aviation connectivity needs, from infrastructure and hardware to cybersecurity.
On the day the companies had long expected to be their first day as one corporation, the U.S. Justice Department – in cooperation with European and Canadian competition authorities – instead filed a lawsuit and outlined spinoff demands before United Technologies would be allowed to acquire Rockwell Collins.
Private and business aviation customers are expected to make up one-quarter of all Airbus Helicopters’ bookings in North America over the next five years.
Gulfstream’s new G500 was designed by pilots for pilots, with an intuitive flight deck that includes active-control sidesticks, customizable touchscreens and a comfortable cockpit for long-range flights, noted a Gulfstream pilot following a media flight over Orlando, Florida.
With the FAA’s January 2020 mandate to equip for automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) out position reporting coming closer into view, Rockwell Collins will announce business jet additions to its approved model list supplemental type certificate for complying avionics at this year’s NBAA conference.
As BACA, The Air Charter Association prepares to mark its 70th anniversary in 2019, the UK organization is flexing new muscles. Last year it became a company limited by guarantee, and appointed its first CEO, Dave Edwards.
