The two-seat SureFly made its first, 10-sec untethered hover flight at a location near Cincinatti, Ohio, on April 30, and a second, 15-sec hover the next day.
Used business jet and turboprop transactions during the first quarter of 2018 were a “mixed bag,” although inventory tightened, according to Amstat’s Business Jet and Turboprop Resale Market Update.
Bombardier Aerospace likes its Learjet business and will continue to sell the aircraft, company President and CEO Alain Bellemare told analysts on a conference call about quarterly results.
Bombardier Business Aircraft has launched an online course to make it easier for pilots to undergo recurrent training in its Challenger 605 and 650 business jets.
Worldwide business and general aviation avionics sales rose 13% in the first three months of 2018 to $639.8 million, compared to a year ago, according to the Aircraft Electronics Association.
Airline brand OneJet, which provides point-to-point service to small and midsize markets, has signed an agreement for its first acquisition, Ohio-based operator Ultimate JetCharters.
Having received about 150 applications for the Trump administration’s unmanned aircraft system (UAS) Integration Pilot Program (IPP), the Transportation Department has doubled to 10 the number of projects to be funded.
Honeywell International announced May 1 it will have a new chief financial officer (CFO) by Aug. 3, naming Greg Lewis to succeed Tom Szlosek, “who has decided to retire for personal reasons.”
The U.S. Transportation Department will use its exemption authority to issue certificates to operators of small unmanned aircraft system (UAS) seeking to transport goods for compensation, a procedural step toward allowing delivery drones.
Panasonic Corp. of Japan and its U.S. subsidiary Panasonic Avionics Corp. (PAC) will pay $280 million to resolve Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and accounting fraud violations, the U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced separately on April 30.
Millennium International has finalized the completion of a 1,050-sq.-ft. Class 100 clean room in an expansion of its 9,500-sq.-ft. facility in Lee’s Summit, Missouri.
Million Air Syracuse has completed construction of a $10 million, 11,000-sq.-ft. FBO facility and 28,000-sq.-ft. hangar at Hancock International Airport in Syracuse, New York.
Former NASA astronaut and space shuttle commander Charlie Precourt will be the keynote speaker at Textron Aviation’s 2018 customer conference May 14-16 in Wichita.
