The Weekly of Business Aviation

AP Completion Services in Montreal, founded in 2009, has delivered a Gulfstream 650ER, its 100th business jet and 135th aircraft completion.

Jet Midwest has acquired the first of four Gulfstream G-IV aircraft with Rolls-Royce Tay 611-8 engines.

FlightSafety International plans to complete the installation of JetTech’s Garmin touchscreen GTN 650/750 GPS/NAV/COM modification update to its Citation 550.

Cutter Aviation has been named an authorized Pilatus sales and service center.

ACS Aviation has invested £1 million ($1.4 million) in aircraft, equipment, airside facilities and online presence and has increased enrollment in pilot training.

The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Textron Aviation Inc. models A36TC, B36TC, S35, V35, V35A, and V35B airplanes.

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Alan Monk has been promoted to airframe sales manager at Duncan Aviation in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Bell’s V-280 Valor tiltrotor prototype is on track to tilt its nacelles all the way forward and fly in “airplane mode” by the end of April.

A repair station seeking maintenance instructions from a manufacturer seemingly reluctant to provide them has been told by FAA that it is legally entitled to the documents. But after more than a year, the agency has not enforced its decision—and a recent court ruling determined FAA has no obligation to do so.

A proposed Chinese import tariff on U.S.-built, large-cabin business jets is hitting the business jet industry just as it is emerging from economic doldrums.

Aviation and aerospace business leaders and elected officials representing Kansas emphasized the importance of general aviation at a jobs rally.

France’s armed forces ministry has launched a program to renew the country’s fleet of electronic intelligence aircraft with three special-mission Falcon jets.

Executive AirShare interim President John Owen has been named president and CEO of the Lenexa, Kansas-based company.

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Triumph Group has reached an agreement with Gulfstream Aerospace to move G650 work from two Triumph facilities to Gulfstream’s site in Savannah, Georgia.

Spirit AeroSystems has opened its second Center of Excellence for the fabrication of complex commercial and military aircraft parts.

Pilatus Business Aircraft delivered its second PC-24 production aircraft to Western Aircraft, an authorized Pilatus Sales and Service Center.

EASA has approved the Lycoming IO390-C3B6 215 hp engine for Tecnam’s P2010 four-seat, high-wing general aviation aircraft, Tecnam has announced.

NASA has selected Lockheed Martin to build an X-plane to show that sonic booms can be reduced to a level low enough to enable the flight ban to be lifted.

The DOT is moving quickly to replace Essential Air Service (EAS) flights to two Arizona cities that abruptly lost them when Great Lakes shut down last month.

Drone delivery provider Zipline has introduced a faster UAS as part of an overhaul of its logistics system to speed the supply of blood in Rwanda.

Things are looking up for Chinese business aviation.

Stuart Hatcher has been appointed chief operating officer of the International Bureau of Aviation, or IBA.

The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Bombardier, Inc., Model CL-600-2B19 (Regional Jet Series 100 & 440), Model CL-600-2C10 (Regional Jet Series 700, 701, & 702), Model CL-600-2D15 (Regional Jet Series 705), and Model CL-600-2D24 (Regional Jet Series 900) airplanes.