Business is brisk at Comlux, the Swiss-based VIP aircraft management, operating and charter company that also has a U.S. completions and maintenance center in Indianapolis.
Famous for its advanced-technology winglets, Aviation Partners, Inc. helped drive Steve Hinton Jr. and his highly modified P-51 Mustang to a new world record without them.
MedAire founder Joan Sullivan Garrett has won the NBAA 2017 Meritorious Award for turning into a reality her vision to help people needing remote medical care.
Demand for cabin work and heavy maintenance is driving expansion at both the Canadian and U.S. facilities of Flying Colours, the Ontario-based business jet completions specialist. In St. Louis, Flying Colours has doubled its woodworking shop in a 40,300-sq.-ft. building that will furnish cabinetry for both centers and accommodate upholstery, avionics and engineering, while in Peterborough, Canada, two dedicated paint booths have been added and ground has been cleared for another hangar planned for 2018.
VistaJet, founded in 2004, received a $150 million cash investment from private equity firm Rhone Capital in August. VistaJet President Ronald Silverman discusses what the investment means for the private jet provider and talks about the company’s growth.
Chad Anderson, president of the Jetcraft international aircraft sales, marketing and ownership strategies consultancy, is enthusiastic. “We are very optimistic looking forward at this stage. I would venture to guess we are exiting the recession.”
Gulfstream Aircraft’s fifth and final G600 test aircraft made its maiden flight Aug. 29, less than nine months since the G600 flight-test program began.
Michael Vercio, Textron Aviation’s vice president of product support, was in the middle of his daughter’s birthday party one Sunday afternoon when he received a call from a pilot somewhere in rural Mississippi.
Business aviation has a cybersecurity problem – the sector just doesn’t realize it yet. But one company exhibiting at the NBAA convention is on a mission to both educate companies and protect them against digital threats.
Zetta Jet Pte. Ltd and Zetta Jet USA, the firms that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in mid-September, are rolling the dice at Henderson. A Global 6000 in Zetta Jet livery is parked at the NBAA static display, accompanied by company pilot Matthew Waterhouse.
More than 100 business jets are now flying with the Honeywell-Inmarsat JetConneX global inflight broadband service, with another 50 expected by the end of the year.
Companies that use business aviation to support their missions outperform those that do not, as demonstrated by a number of metrics, a new study of S&P 500 companies finds.
Web Manuals, a leading digitizer of documentation for flight operations and safety, is expanding its relationship with Argus International to further help its customers keep their back offices up to speed on operating procedures, safety and compliance.
I know winning conditions when I see them, and we should have reason for some optimism here,” says Shawn Vick, chairman of Global Jet Capital’s executive committee.
The world’s most “printed engine,” GE’s new Advanced Turboprop in which additive manufacturing replaces 855 normally made parts with just 12 “printed” components, is on track to run for the first time at the end of this year in Prague, Czech Republic. It will power Cessna’s new Denali aircraft.
Nextant officials predict that the firm’s remanufactured and highly modified $8 million 604XT will be able to fly 500+ nm miles farther than a stock Bombardier Challenger 605/605/650 due to a wing extension and new winglets, plus a 4,000-ft. increase in maximum operating altitude to FL 450.
In step with a string of industry closings, and after 70 years in business, Associated Air Center said last month that it will cease operations and close its VIP completion facility on leased property at Dallas Love Field at the end of this year.
The long-delayed Falcon 5X jet development program faces a further holdup after Safran revealed it had encountered new problems with the aircraft’s Silvercrest turbofans during recent ground and flight tests.
In contrast to recent completion refurbishment and MRO facility closings (most recently Associated Air Center), King Aerospace is preparing to expand its role in the VIP market.
