The Weekly of Business Aviation

JetReady, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has added a Hawker 800 to its fleet.

View the October 2018 Business Aircraft Activity In The U.S., Canada And The Caribbean chart in PDF format.

PrivateFly posted a record quarter for flight activity during the third quarter of 2018 with activity up 42% compared to a year ago.

Aviation Week Network has announced the winners of its 62nd Annual Laureate Awards honoring extraordinary achievements in global aerospace.

Custom Jet Charters has received FAA approval to manage and fly FAR Part 135 private jets with 10 seats or more.

WSU Tech in Wichita is offering tuition-free training for select high-demand jobs and a guaranteed job interview to meet workforce needs through a scholarship program called Wichita Promise.

The B-29 Superfortress known has Doc has a new home in Wichita

King Aerospace has seven Boeing aircraft in various stages of work, a record for the company.

AirSprint, based in Calgary, Canada, has taken delivery of its second Cessna Citation CJ3+.

This Emergency Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2018-23-52 is being sent to owners and operators of Leonardo S.p.A. Model AW169 and AW189 helicopters.

View the General Aviation 3rd Quarter And Year-To-Date 2018 Deliveries chart in PDF format.

The Citation Jet Pilots Owner Pilot Association’s 10th annual convention in San Antonio in October drew record attendance of 474 people and 65 exhibits.

The number of used business jets for sale fell 6% in November, while pricing declined 5% from a year ago, according to Jefferies.

Cutter Aviation took delivery of its 20th HondaJet light jet during a Nov. 14 ceremony at HondaJet headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina.

FAA is implementing a new controller staffing policy after a tower controller became incapacitated while working the midnight shift at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.

Honeywell has completed initial testing of a software-based runway collision avoidance system that uses automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) position reports to alert pilots to potential conflicts on the airport surface, the company said Nov. 13.

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has cut metal on the X-59 QueSST, beginning manufacture of the first part for NASA’s low-boom flight demonstrator.

Luxaviation Group’s top executive said it will no longer exhibit at the European Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition in Geneva because of the high cost.

Airspace Technologies, a startup pitching proprietary software for time-definite logistics in air cargo, has raised $20 million in venture capital funding.

With fewer programs to power its business, what comes next for storied Canadian aerospace player Bombardier?

A petition for exemptions from FAA rules governing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) reveals rotorcraft developer Bell plans to use a large commercial multicopter drone, the xFold DragonH, for research and development flying.

GAMA has accelerated dialogue with European regulators on development of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and technologies.

Investigators probing the first-ever crash of a Leonardo AW169 twin-engine medium helicopter shortly after takeoff from a British football stadium are focusing on the aircraft’s anti-torque control system.

Business and general aviation deliveries worldwide grew 6% during the first nine months of 2018, compared to the first three quarters of 2017, although billings declined 3%.

Chinese freight company SF Express plans to use pilotless Avic Y-5B biplanes, based on a 70-year-old Soviet design, in an air delivery setup to be running by 2023.