The company plans to deliver its last G450 to a customer in early 2018. The $44.65 million G500 is expected to receive type certification in 2017 with customer deliveries to begin in 2018.
In the three years since Wheels Up began business, the private aviation membership company has taken delivery of 70 aircraft and membership has grown to 3,700.
Viking Air celebrated the production of its 100th Series 400 Twin Otter in Calgary this past summer, and is showing the aircraft, replete with seaplane floats and executive interior, on the NBAA 2016 static line.
Wheels Up made waves at NBAA 2013 in Las Vegas by promoting the newest iteration of the King Air as an economical alternative to business jets. Coming into NBAA 2016, the company has grown to 69 total aircraft since its launch.
The move by Beijing-based Deer Jet underscores its ambitions to become a player in the infrastructure that supports business aviation around the world.
The FAA has officially awarded Cirrus Aircraft with an FAR Part 23 Type Certificate for its $1.96 million, 300-kt. single-engine turbofan SF50 Vision Jet.
The concept of printing metallic parts for aerospace applications in place of traditional forging and casting may be in its infancy, but General Electric says the coming revolution in additive manufacturing for aircraft engines is approaching quickly and on an unprecedented scale.
Gulfstream has reached new heights in cabin sophistication with its two latest models, the G500 and G600. Today it is unveiling the luxuriously appointed cabin of the G500 and showing new interior styles for the first time.
Payment is the last major pain point in the business jet charter industry. The procedures are inefficient, costly and insecure, placing unnecessary strain on brokers and operators’ cash flows, as well as giving customers insufficient protection of their payment details. But that’s about to change with the launch today of PayNode, by Avinode, the world’s largest online marketplace for buying and selling private air charter.
ATP and Sweden-based Web Manuals have joined forces to provide aircraft operators and maintenance organizations with constantly updated operating manuals as well digitized technical documents, maintenance manuals, and safety and regulatory alerts.
Some business aircraft operators are holding off on making a decision on Ka band equipment. But with such strong competition from Inmarsat and Viasat, operators likely will be the big winners.
Elements of the design were unveiled at EBACE 2015, but they elicited doubt about the feasibility of the concept. So Lufthansa Technik has spent the past year engineering the sumptuous interior into a product.
Unlike most corporate interiors, there are few straight lines to see in Melody, the nature-inspired Airbus cabin concept unveiled at NBAA 2016 for future customers of the company’s new ACJ320neo family.
The second Pilatus PC-24 prototype, most recently seen undergoing avionics tests at Honeywell’s Phoenix-Deer Valley hangar, is making its NBAA debut this year.
Delta Private Jets helped bail out its airline parent this past August when a systems failure in Atlanta forced the cancellation of hundreds of commercial flights and stranded thousands of passengers.
Wall Street brokers and business jet lenders told a recent JetNet iQ conference on business jets that they expect business aircraft demand to remain soft in the near-term, with no clear indication of when recovery will occur. But manufacturers were more optimistic.
Doug May, vice president of piston aircraft for Textron Aviation, speaks with Molly McMillian at AirVenture Oshkosh about the company's announcements - and also the atmosphere at the show.
A 64-year old historic, Oshkosh-award-winning British Auster originally restored by the editor of Aviation Week ShowNews appeared in the static display at the Farnborough Airshow.
Lockheed Martin is marketing its LM-100J civil Hercules variant in tandem with the newly unveiled LMH-1 cargo carrying hybrid airship as part of the company’s broader strategic initiative to grow its commercial aerospace business.
General Electric has set out to become the world's Digital Industrial Company, transforming itself by using Big Data to shape everything from the way it makes things to supporting customers in the field.
