Dassault, which traces back its roots to an innovative propeller designed by its founder, Marcel Dassault, in 1916, has kept the strong corporate culture of a family-run business with an omnipresent passion for aviation. Although relatively small – 12,000 employees – in a world of giants, it has remained fiercely independent.
The aircraft’s captain and first officer died in the accident. No one on the ground was injured. Three buildings and 16 vehicles were damaged by impact or fire.
Pratt & Whitney expects production capacity increases will see deliveries of its PW1000G geared turbofan (GTF) family continue to ramp up back toward earlier targets.
Rigby Group, through its XLR Executive Jet Center division, has acquired the corporate jet center at the Birmingham Airport in the UK, the company announced.
Proposal: evaluate each defect noted by repair-station personnel and determine if any are unusual or unknown. If so, the defects are then cross-referenced against the FAA’s SDR-filling criteria for design-approval holders.
Dassault Falcon Jet is cutting its U.S. workforce by less than 6% because of challenging business aviation conditions, the company said in a statement.
Six Wichita aerospace and aviation suppliers and government officials met with aerospace companies in Querétaro, Mexico, on a four-day mission to promote the city’s products and services.
A helicopter final-assembly plant that Airbus and Chinese partners have begun building here will have room for double its designed capacity of 18 deliveries a year.
Dry ice and holograms were deployed in Palexpo yesterday as Airbus introduced Airbus Corporate Helicopters as a comprehensive vertical lift solution for high-net-worth individuals, corporations, or business aviation operators.
Cirrus Aircraft has received type certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for its Vision Jet single-engine personal jet and delivered its first aircraft into Europe.
TAG Aviation Europe has announced it is exiting the Spanish market as it moves to consolidate aircraft operations under a limited number of Air Operator Certificates.
Bombardier said it used biofuels supplied by AEG Fuels to fly its Learjet 75, Challenger 350 and 650, and Global 6000 jets to the European Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition in Geneva.
