Textron Aviation’s announcement this week of an available head-up display aboard the 3,500-nm range Citation Longitude provides clear evidence of a surge in product investment – $200 million to $2300 million per year.
A new Swiss company, Valcora (Booth K57), is planning a quick rise to the top. The firm believes its founders’ quarter-century of experience in aviation fuel, and bespoke ordering software, will help it take a leading place in the private-aviation sector.
If it looks like there is renewed spring in Adam Twidell's step at EBACE this week, there are good reasons. The founder of PrivateFly, the first online booking platform for private aviation, is celebrating another year of trend-defying growth with an overhaul and rebranding of the company's website and flight-booking app.
Deliveries of new turbofan business aircraft will continue to be in a “lull” until 2019, according to the JetnetIQ forecast report created by aviation consultant Rolland Vincent.
The onboard media streaming solution for personal devices provides a broad selection of entertainment and information for passengers, including more than 800 movies and TV shows; weather, business, sports and news feeds; audio collection; destination and event information and casual games, all in five languages.
Daher sees sales prospects for its TBM family in the recent – some would say, belated – European approval for single-engine commercial operations under IMC. Since March 22, regulation (EU) 965/2012 has allowed aircraft including the TBM850, 900, 910 and 930 to take advantage of the new freedom. But, as always, the devil is in the detail.
Few business aviation airports in the world are extending their opening hours and adding new instrument landing systems to attract more traffic. But London Biggin Hill, one of six business jet-friendly airports serving the UK’s capital city, is flying against the trend.
In March of this year, AMAC Aerospace Group COO Bernd Schramm noted that the company’s four hangars were operating at full capacity with maintenance work packages on aircraft including three ACJ340s and a VIP Boeing 777.
Basel-based Jet Aviation has just redelivered a Boeing B737 after major refurbishment, but that’s not quite the dog-bites-man news it may seem for a well-known completions contractor. This is not just another BBJ – it is also the very first Boeing Business Jet that the company worked on, way back in 1999.
While EBACE 2017 has opened on an overall positive note, there has been some less encouraging news with the closing of three well-known VIP completion centers in the last two years, each conspicuous by its absence here.
Pratt & Whitney Canada is celebrating recent delivery of its 100,000th turbine engine, but is adding little to an earlier revelation that a 2,000-shp power plant is in prospect for both helicopter and aeroplane applications.
Visitors to Dassault Aviation at Booth Z90 may be forgiven a double take. Yes, that is a model of a Rafael fighter; but, sadly, its appearance at EBACE does not mean the French airframer is courting the executive who wishes to take the fight to their competitors with unprecedented vigor.
Dry ice and holograms were deployed in Palexpo yesterday as Airbus introduced Airbus Corporate Helicopters as a comprehensive vertical lift solution for high-net-worth individuals, corporations, or business aviation operators.
Forget that ‘Top Gear’ stuff of car-versus-airplane; combine the best of the two. That’s what Airbus Corporate Jets (Booth Z58) has done in teaming with Italian hypercar Atelier Pagani Automobili to produce a new cabin design for the ACJ319neo, called Infinito.
For the last decade, analysts have predicted growth in Europe’s business aviation market. And every year their forecasts have proven over-optimistic as the giant stirs but never really wakes up.
Improving the ability of business aircraft to land in poor weather might not appear to be of much interest to anyone outside the private aviation community. But an extensive project funded by the EU’s SESAR Joint Undertaking has shown how the entire aviation sector could benefit if business aircraft were able to land in a wider range of conditions at airports where instrument landing equipment is not installed.
“Imagine eBay without PayPal,” says Magnus Henriksson, global business director of the recently launched dedicated business aviation charter payment system PayNode.
The vision of Aircraft Technical Publishers to create a single-source online library service for aviation technical and regulatory publications has taken a step further with the ability to call up individual aircraft’s configuration by tail number from the FAA aircraft registration database.
Cirrus Aircraft was awarded the FAA’s production certificate for its SF50 Vision Jet on May 2, and will begin producing the single-engine, single-pilot personal jets at one per week.
Fast-growing global aviation services provider Gama Aviation has done some pretty transformational deals over the past couple of years, but its January 1 deal with the BBA Group (owners of Signature Flight Support) has made the firm a truly global business aircraft management company.
Germany is proving fertile ground for Web Manuals, the Sweden-based developer of digital management of manuals and documents for the aviation industry.
The first Sukhoi Business Jet with a VIP custom cabin certified by Europe’s EASA has been delivered to Kazakhmys in Kazakhstan by the Comlux Group’s completion and cervices center in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Gone is the famous deer-head logo at Jet Aviation, which is taking the opportunity of its 50th anniversary to reconstitute itself for the years ahead. “We will celebrate the past while focusing on the future,” says Group CEO Rob Smith.
The plan to relaunch Italy’s Piaggio Aero Industries as a civil and defense aircraft manufacturer is gaining momentum some 20 months after moving production from an aging plant in Genoa to a $150 million, clean-sheet design factory in Villanova d’Albenga, about 56 miles southwest.
