The Weekly of Business Aviation

Bombardier will continue mulling a split-up of the Canadian train and business jet maker, with the company’s chief executive sounding like he favors staying in the latter business, according to comments made during a Feb. 13 teleconference.

General aviation groups have launched a 2020 European General Aviation survey to understand the trends in flight activity, aircraft equipment and fleet composition in Europe to support safety analysis.

In the next 10 years, the business aircraft fleet in Asia is expected to grow 2.5% a year from 1,360 aircraft in 2020 to nearly 1,395 by 2029, according to Aviation Week Network’s 2020 Business Aviation Fleet & MRO Forecast.

Babcock CEO Archie Bethel says the company is unlikely to make any additional investments in its oil-and-gas helicopter support business and suggests it will exit the business once existing contracts have been fulfilled.

Fort Worth-based Bell Textron will work with Japan Airlines (JAL) to explore on-demand air mobility services in Japan with the OEM’s Nexus 4EX electric-vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.

Daher celebrated delivery of its 300th TBM 900-series turboprop aircraft.

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Dassault has completed the critical design review of its next business aircraft, the long-range, widebody Falcon 6X twinjet, and is closing in on the preliminary design of the advanced low-noise follow-on.

Yingling Aviation, a Wichita fixed base operator and maintenance, repair and overhaul provider, is in the final days of an expansion that includes a dedicated business jet maintenance hangar, paint support and interior completions facility and additional hangar and office space as it works to meet demand.

Private investment firm Summit Park has obtained a majority interest in Elliott Aviation, a Moline, Illinois-based business aviation services provider.

Collins Aerospace has named Stephen Timm as president in place of Kelly Ortberg, who is leaving his CEO’s role to become a special advisor to the chief executive of United Technologies Corp. as it merges with Raytheon.

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The FAA is superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2018-19-26, which applied to all Dassault Aviation Model Mystere-Falcon 200 airplanes.

West Star Aviation has nearly doubled the size of its Aircraft on Ground and Maintenance and Repair technician crews.

Gulfstream Aerospace has launched a world tour of its new G700 cabin mockup.

Risk Strategies, a Boston-based insurance broker, has acquired Transport Risk Management.

Airbus Helicopters has announced a new Alternate Gross Weight on the latest version of its H135 suite of helicopters.

Euramec, a manufacturer of pilot training devices, announced that Aeroviation Inc. is operating its first Diamond DA-20 flight simulator.

Presidential Aviation, based at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport in South Florida, has added a Hawker 800XP to its fleet.

Honeywell is providing Leonardo helicopters with significant upgrades to its AW139 helicopters, including Honeywell’s Primus Epic 2.0.

Piper Aircraft is launching an extensive product demo tour throughout the U.S. to showcase its M-Class line of products.

Bombardier has sold two Learjet 75 Liberty business jets to Fargo Jet Center in North Dakota for medevac operations.

There are more than 200 B-registered business jets and about 250 turboprops based in China, Hong Kong and Macau, according to Aviation Week Network’s Fleet & MRO Data.