Commercial services using UAS are gaining traction in a variety of industries, including film and media, oil and gas, insurance, public safety, agriculture and others.
West Star Aviation, based in East Alton, Illinois, has entered into an investment partnership with Norwest Equity Partners, a middle market investment firm.
As Bombardier celebrated the news of a record C Series order from Delta Air Lines, the company also reported a decline in first-quarter deliveries of business jets, including the delivery of one Learjet during the first three months of this year.
General Dynamics, parent company of Gulfstream Aerospace, released its first-quarter 2016 numbers on April 27 with mixed results for the Savannah, Georgia-based plane maker.
Airbus Helicopters plans to add two maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) companies to its support service in China to provide a better geographic spread for the growing fleet of its products in the country.
Chinese business aviation support company Shanghai Hawker Pacific expects to complete construction of its second hangar at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport next year, doubling the area available for maintaining and parking aircraft.
HNA Group is setting up a freight airline in partnership with the Tianjin city government, with a business plan based partly on taking over transfer business currently using congested Beijing Capital International Airport.
Key Air has added a Bombardier Learjet 45XR to its managed fleet of charter aircraft, the fourth aircraft to join Key Air’s Part 135 certificate in the first quarter of this year.
C&L Aviation, based in Florida, has introduced SevenJet Private Travel, a shared ownership and charter flight company that operates six Piaggio Avanti twin-engine aircraft.
