The Weekly of Business Aviation

MEKCO Group, based in Miami, has signed an agreement with Donica to become a dealer and authorized repair facility for Donica’s inflight entertainment and connectivity equipment sales and repair, it said.

Duncan Aviation will open a satellite avionics shop in Bedford, Massachusetts in early August

Silver Air has added an 11-passenger Gulfstream GIV to its jet management program and is now available for charter operations.

Embraer has delivered its first Phenom 300E in the Asia Pacific.

Kirti Odedra has been named director of sales for Planet Nine, based in Los Angeles and London. Bill Wulf will serve as chief financial officer. Wulf is a former senior vice president and chief financial officer of NetJets.

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Washington State has formed an electric aircraft working group to explore the opportunities and challenges of electrifying aviation.

TAG Farnborough Airport has been awarded carbon neutral status by the Airports Council International Europe (ACI Europe), making it the world’s first carbon-neutral business aviation airport.

NASA has laid out a three-phase program to collect data on public acceptance of reduced sonic booms using the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works-developed low-boom demo.

The UK government urgently needs to hammer out a withdrawal agreement from the European Union to avoid massive disruption to the aerospace industry on both sides of the Atlantic, said Michael Huerta, the former FAA administrator.

The C Series program that the new Airbus-Bombardier joint venture takes over July 1 is better than just a few months ago.

ATP Flight School, based in Jacksonville, Florida, has taken delivery of 10 new Cessna 172 Skyhawks from Textron Aviation, the flight school announced.

Meeting on June 27 for the first time as an independent federal advisory group to FAA, the NextGen Advisory Committee (NAC) discussed actively engaging local communities over noise concerns that loom as a major challenge to the agency’s coming Northeast Corridor initiative.

Fourteen years after selling the business to Triumph Group, Jim Lee, founder and president of Lee Aerospace, bought the company back in 2014. Now it's growing.

SIMCOM International, based in Orlando, Florida, has acquired Turbine Solutions Inc., (TSI), an aircraft training provider for Daher TBM series aircraft.

Luton, Stansted, Gatwick, Heathrow, Biggin Hill, Northolt, Farnborough and Oxford airports are all now effectively closed or severely restricted for overnight flights

BOMBARDIER AIRPLANES [Docket No. FAA-2017-1247; Product Identifier 2017-NM-085-AD; Amendment 39-19316; AD 2018-13-04]

GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE CORPORATION AIRPLANES [Docket No. FAA-2018-0104; Product Identifier 2017-CE-036-AD; Amendment 39-19311; AD 2018-12-07]

Tom Carlson has joined Wipaire as services and components sales manager.

Brian Cox has been appointed president of Tamarack Aerospace Group after serving as its chief operating officer.

Jeff Ross, president and CEO of Ross Aviation, will serve as chair of the National Air Transportation Association’s board of directors.

Joshua Diggs has joined Avfuel Corp. as district manager, and Jacob Jones has joined the company as contract fuel inside sales coordinator.

Roger Noble has been appointed vice president of sales for the Eastern U.S. at Aerion

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London Biggin Hill and Associated Aircraft Group have launched a New York