Airframe manufacturers have been investing heavily through the depressed business jet market to bring at least 20 new models to market over the next six years.
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.
Turkish Aerospace Industries is making its presence felt at Le Bourget this year, with a static display of its fixed and rotary-wing products and the international flying display debut of the company’s Hurkus turboprop trainer.
Less than two months after making its debut in Istanbul, Turkish Aerospace Industries has brought the mockup of its T625 utility helicopter to Le Bourget.
Airbus will fit new fixed and deployable combined flight data and voice recorders as standard on long-range aircraft starting in 2019 in a bid to make it easier to find aircraft wreckage in the event of an accident over the sea.
After putting it into service just a few weeks ago, the world’s largest aero-engine manufacturer is thrilled with the performance of one of the world’s smallest business jets.
Modeled after the GE-Safran CFM aircraft engine joint venture, the Nexcelle partners “mesh together very well,” says the unit’s president, Kenneth Onderko.
Kawasaki’s big light blue P-1 maritime patrol aircraft has taken center stage at the Paris Air Show, marking its debut at a major international trade show, and the first time a Japanese military aircraft has visited Le Bourget.
With the international debut of the joint Saudi-Ukrainian Antonov An-132D airlifter here at Paris, Saudi officials believe there may be a need for as many as 100 aircraft in the Kingdom.
