Civil supersonic jet developers and would-be operators have been boosted by FAA reauthorization legislation agreed to by House and Senate committee leaders that appears to pave the way for a supersonic renaissance.
Flight tracking data provider FlightAware has added space-based surveillance coverage to its ground network of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast receivers and announced Rockwell Collins ARINCDirect as its first partner for the enhanced offering to business aviation.
BBA Aviation, parent company of component OEM and MRO provider Ontic, has confirmed the acquisition of Firstmark, an aftermarket services provider of components and subsystems, for $97 million.
Duncan Aviation and Gogo Business Aviation recently developed a new STC for installing the Gogo ST 4300 Iridium Satcom Satellite Telecommunication System configuration for FANS-1/A+ in a Bombardier Challenger 605.
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.
Sheltair Aviation isn’t intimidated by the giant FBO chains of the world. The service company continues to add enhancements to its small family of FBOs, real estate developments and other interests.
A lot has changed at TAG Farnborough Airport – the business-focused airfield to the west of London – since its CEO, Brandon O'Reilly, first joined the team. Yet the biggest difference he has noticed has been in the business aviation industry's perception.
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.
Avinode Group, long known as the leading business-to-business platform for buying and selling air charter, is rolling out some significant advancements to its web-based apps for brokers and operators that will benefit their customers, too.
Mark Johnstone became CEO of Signature Flight Support on April 1. Johnstone, who joined BBA Aviation in 2008, also serves as CEO there. BBA Aviation is Signature’s parent company.
Brian Proctor, Founder, President and CEO, Mente Group LLC, Addison, Texas, and president of the International Aircraft Dealers Association is interviewed by William Garvey.
The collective exhaling of relief last week when Luton Airport's summer night-closure program came to an end was almost loud enough to drown out the roar of all those business jets that the airfield north of London is once again able to welcome after dark.
Business & Commercial Aviation editor in chief William Garvey has been selected as one of the recipients of the National Aeronautic Association’s 2018 Wesley L. McDonald Distinguished Statesman of Aviation Award.
With the January 1, 2020, deadline drawing closer for automatic dependent surveillance compliance, only about 52% of business aviation aircraft that fly in U.S. airspace are in compliance with the rule, according to MRO specialist Duncan Aviation.
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.
