2024 Corporate Aviation Leadership Summit

Thierry Dubois

Dassault Falcon salespeople are starting to hear customers voicing concerns about their airplane’s effect on the environment.

‘Greener’ Falcons coming from Dassault

Gregory Polek

Bombardier Aerospace expressed “regrets” this week over a March 13, 2007, accident involving a Q400 turboprop at Japan’s Kochi Airport after the Japanese A

Bombardier Expresses Regret over Japan Q400 Incident

Jennifer Harrington

Last month’s maiden flight of the Cessna Citation CJ4 prototype was “a rousing success,” according to the Wichita-based OEM.

Citation CJ4 flies

Chad Trautvetter

Eclipse Aviation this afternoon officially launched its single-engine jet program.

Eclipse Concept Jet No Longer Just a Concept

Gordon Gilbert

“We oppose this proposal in every part and recommend that it be withdrawn.” This was the terse comment from fractional pilot Thomas Gasta to the FAA’s prop

Opponents raise objections over Subpart K frax rules

AIN Staff

Last year was not friendly to startup companies dreaming of producing airplanes, but there are glimmerings of hope for some.

In The Works Summary

American Eagle last month announced plans to launch regional jet service from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) beginning next month, with service to

Regionals Update: Eagle to bring RJs to LAX

Thomas Stocker

French authorities on December 13 acted on a court order to seize one of Crossair’s Embraer ERJ-145s at Nice Côte d’Azur Airport at the behest of Air Lib, 

Crossair Embraer seized

Stephen Pope

Boeing’s planned Connexion airborne broadband data service was dealt a damaging blow last month when its three largest customers–American Airlines, Delta A

Avionics Update: Connexion future uncertain as airlines back out

When Boeing rolled out its new ATC management system last summer, a satellite-based arrangement that takes a significantly different direction from the FAA

Boeing’s ATC initiative offers enhanced security, capacity

Bill Wagstaff

There are some jobs only helicopters can do.

Rotorcraft Update: Helicopters haul mountaintop privies

Mark Phelps

According to FBO KaiserAir, business jet traffic at Oakland International Airport has increased at least 25 percent since September 11.

Touching Bases: Oakland International Airport sees bizav influx

Linda Burton Ricks

LEARJET 25B, PITTSBURGH, PA., NOV.

Learjet crashes on takeoff

The Senate bill to reauthorize and fund the FAA for the next four years was once again stalled on the tarmac last month because of procedural infighting be

Stalemate continues on FAA funding plan

The PiperJet prototype appears poised to make an on-schedule first flight in the next two months as static testing winds down on the airplane.

PiperJet To Shed Its Marionette Strings and Fly Soon

EADS Socata at EBACE outlined what its product launch might be next year–a twin-engine business aircraft that is bigger than its TBM 850 turboprop single.

Socata Mulls Turbine Twin Launch

Irwin Stambler

Ibis Aerospace came to last month’s NBAA Convention with a restyled full-scale cabin mockup of its Ae270 turboprop single.

Ibis shows off new executive interior for Ae270

The uncertainty of the near future has reached the big airframers, too.

In The Works: Boeing BBJ3

Since it began flying a pair of 32-seat Fairchild Dornier 328JETs from its base in Tulsa, Okla., last April, Great Plains Airlines has been promoting plans

CEO's abrupt departure fuels uncertainty at Great Plains

Thales Avionics, the French firm that changed its name from Sextant Avionique last year, announced last month that it will design and certify an enhanced v

Avionics Update: Thales throws hat into EVS ring

Harry Weisberger

Honeywell’s aerospace electronic systems group is beginning the year by unveiling new technology that holds the promise of doing to conventional navcom rad

Honeywell digital radios set to make bizav debut

Despite the fact that the Pratt &amp; Whitney Canada PT6C-67A engines are installed on the first BA609 prototype tiltrotor, Bell is letting the development

Rotorcraft Update: ...as civil tiltrotor development slips

It took a deadly act of terrorism to knock the nation’s fleet of electronic newsgathering (ENG) helicopters out of the air and, ironically, it required ano

Newscopters back on the air after frustrating restrictions

A Flight Safety Foundation publication cites a report from the John A.

Touching Bases: Report cites need for better tower comms

BEECH 1900D, ROCHESTER, N.Y., JUNE 3, 2000–The Safety Board determined probable cause for a gear-up landing by a CommutAir Beech 1900D dur

Maintenance error led to gear-up landing

Zurich-based ExecuJet signed for six Bombardier Learjet 85 midsize jets, making the executive aircraft sales, charter, completions and mainte

Learjet 85 gets Pro Line Fusion avionics and European launch customer

When large areas of the Asian economy tanked in the late 1990s, business aviation in the region suffered.

Jet Asia carves Pacific Rim bizav market niche

Andrew Wood

Banks have them, and so do many convenience stores and passenger cars.

Panic buttons could be part of future cockpits

0Atlantic Coast Airlines ended 13 years of 19-seat aircraft operations when it retired the last of its Jetstream 32 turboprops on December 3.

Regionals Update: ACA retires last of J32s

Some $10.1 million in direct government aid allowed Midway Airlines to reopen for business December 19, but its days as a regional/national hybrid operatin

Midway reopens for business, but without its regional jets

San Diego-based Blue Sky Network, a developer of low-cost airborne voice and data satcom services for business aviation, now expects to have its first satc

Avionics Update: Talk is cheap with Blue Sky Network satcom

Before GPS, approach classifications were cut and dried–they were either precision (ILS) or nonprecision approaches.

Future approaches to usher in an entire new set of acronyms

AgustaWestland scored a big win last month with the sale of 12 new search-and-rescue (SAR)-configured EH 101 helicopters to the Portuguese government.

Rotorcraft Update: Portugal goes for a gaggle of EH 101s

The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) has acquired the Aviation Training Institute (ATI) from Denver-based Aviation Resource Group Internation

Touching Bases: NATA acquires Aviation Training Institute

The National Convective Weather Forecast (NCWF), which combines National Weather Service (NWS) radar mosaics and cloud-to-ground lightning data into a <br

Washington Report: New convective wx tool goes online

CESSNA 208 CARAVAN, BESSEMER, ALA., DEC.

IMC cargo Caravan crash

Matt Thurber

After issuing emergency orders of revocation, the FAA agreed to rescind its revocation of Tulsa, Okla.-based Southwest Aviation Specialties’ repair station

FAA Backs Down after MRO Company Fights Back`

Since mid-September, a French operator&nbsp; has been flying the first Embraer ERJ-135 dedicated to charter in Europe.

Hex’Air finds opportunity in ERJ-135 charter operations

The developer of the single-turboprop pusher Jetcruzer 500 gave holders of its Class A and B warrants an additional month to convert their warrants, purcha

In The Works: AASI Jetcruzer 500

All four of Delta Air Lines’ regional affiliates benefited from the company’s continuing network realignment last month, as Delta concentrates ever more in

Regionals Update: Delta Connection accelerates realignment

Charles Alcock

BAE Systems may have to build another 14 of its Avro RJX regional jets, despite announcing its intention to scrap the program in late November.

RJX orders in limbo as BAE shuts down program

A Challenger 601 equipped with the Pro Line 21 Continuum avionics system from Rockwell Collins has completed initial flight tests, said the company.

Avionics Update: Collins starts trials of Challenger 601 with retrofit Pro Line 21

A Robinson R44 operated by Milwaukee TV station WISN crashed late in the afternoon of December 12, killing its pilot, 47-year-old John Michael Wilson, and 

Rotorcraft Update: Milwaukee ENG helicopter crash claims pilot

Craig Lunaas

For the helicopter owner, operator or flight program looking to cut costs while simultaneously maintaining or expanding existing levels of service, Agusta’

Putting it on the line: Koala proves its salt at Life Flight

Growing European FBO group Execair has opened a new facility at Prague Ruzyne Airport in the Czech Republic.

Touching Bases: Execair opens an FBO in Prague

MOUNT GAMBIER, AUSTRALIA, DEC.

King Air fatal downunder

Local airport advocacy, airport preservation and security, airspace access and ATC modernization were among the concerns of attendees at the American Assoc

Conference stresses building relationships with neighbors

The failure of a Russian Proton rocket in March has thrown the schedule for the launch of Inmarsat’s third and final I4 communications satellite into quest

Launch Date Uncertain for Third Inmarsat I4 Satellite 

Eclipse Aviation received permission from the U.S.

Eclipse: Russian plans moving ahead

Paul Seidenman

The major reductions in airline passenger traffic at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) since September 11 may actually benefit business aviation ac

Reduced airline traffic at SFO opens door for more bizav ops

The future of this Williams-Rolls FJ44-1A-powered evolution of the former Promavia Jet Squalus is murkier following the closure of Alberta Aerospace, the C

In The Works: Phoenix Fanjet

The $63 million appropriated for the Essential Air Service program in this year’s transportation bill appeared likely to increase to a level closer to the 

Senate defense bill may salvage 44 EAS cities

Wireless communications company Qualcomm last month put on an impressive demonstration of its medium data rate satcom system (MDSS) on the show floor at NB

Avionics Update: Qualcomm demonstrates live video conferencing

Staff members at Jeppesen’s International Trip Planning Services centers in the U.S.

Ground handlers tighten security

It’s a sad fact of economic life that there is often opportunity in tragedy, and while some helicopter industry leaders aren’t necessarily looking to cash 

Rotorcraft Update: Helos for homeland defense

Tell us about the new security committee. It is basically a combination of the Corporate Aviation Management Committee and the

Leading Edge: New NBAA chair selects security as priority

The Scottsdale, Ariz.

Touching Bases: Scottsdale Air Center breaks ground

LEARJET 24D, EL PASO, TEXAS, DEC.

Fatal Learjet crash

Aerion is still hoping to convince an OEM partner to join it by the end of this year in its quest to build a supersonic business jet capable of sprinting f

Aerion SSBJ by 2014 unlikely, despite 40 LOIs

After a 26-year relationship with FlightSafety International, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America (MHIA) announced at last month’s NBAA Convention that it 

MU-2 training shifts to Florida’s SimCom

Charter aircraft operators seem to be weathering the double whammy of a recession and increased aviation security measures with reasonable success, with re

Charter firms riding out economic turbulence

Mesa Air Group’s recently signed code-share agreement with Frontier Airlines calls for the Phoenix-based regional airline to begin flights from Denver Inte

Regionals Update: Mesa returns to Denver next month

In his opening speech at Crossair’s December 6 extraordinary shareholders assembly in Basel, Switzerland, Crossair founder and outgoing chairman Moritz Sut

Crossair trustees oust Suter, retain Dosé as chief executive

Garmin has made a name for itself in aviation in the last decade by developing a popular lineup of navigation and communication equipment for GA aircraft.

Avionics Update: Garmin developing integrated cockpit

From his Paris office thousands of miles away François Lureau was as horrified by what he saw on September 11 as the millions of Americans who watched on t

Thales chief commits to improve aviation security

Agusta has delivered the first A109E Power to be driven by Turbomeca’s newly FAA-certified Arrius 2K1 engines to Erie, Pa.-based aeromedical transport prov

Rotorcraft Update: Powers get power from new Turbomeca engines

Located at St.

Touching Bases: Aero Sport mixes business and fun flying

John A. Pope

As the first session of the 107th Congress wound down, the wonderful days of bipartisan behavior that followed September 11 gave way to partisan bickering 

Congressional Observer: January 2002

The Swiss federal court last month acquitted Crossair chairman Moritz Suter, CEO André Dosé and four other former airline employees of homicide by neglect 

Crossair execs found not guilty in homicide trial

At the EBACE show in Geneva last week, Cirrus Design’s full-size mockup of its single-engine (and yet-to-be-named) jet enjoyed a prominent spot in Hall 7 n

Cirrus Jet Single Flying by Oshkosh?

Russia’s Sukhoi Civil Aircraft flew the new Superjet 100 for the first time on May 19 from the company’s main assembly site in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

Superjet Flies

Just three months after issuing its annual 10-year business jet delivery forecast, Honeywell published a revised and less optimistic forecast.

Honeywell revises its bizav industry forecast

Lawrenceville, Ga.-based American Utilicraft, which is developing the twin-turboprop FF-1080 freight feeder, saw its share price drop from its 52-week high

In The Works: American Utilicraft

Northwest Airlink subsidiary Express Airlines I will move to an all-regional-jet fleet and Minneapolis-based Mesaba Airlines will provide all Northwest Air

Regionals Update: Northwest Airlink reorganizes Memphis ops

Ian Goold

Belgian regional airline Delta Air Transport (DAT) moved closer to its goal of becoming the successor to the defunct Sabena Airlines late last month, after

DAT gets reprieve as investors move to settle Sabena debts

John Sheridan

Rockwell Collins announced the successful completion of microwave landing system (MLS) Category IIIb approach tests in the U.S.

Collins proves Cat III-capable MLS for its multi-mode receiver

Coping with a slowdown in both commercial and military sales, Bell Helicopter has laid off 45 more nonunion employees, bringing to 800 the number of jobs i

Rotorcraft Update: Layoffs continue at Bell...

Brian Walters

British International has ambitions to introduce scheduled services in the UK within the next 10 years using the proposed Bell/Agusta BA619 tiltrotor airli

British International thinks big with scheduled tiltrotor service

Residents of Stuart, Fla., have filed a lawsuit against the Martin County Commission concerning a master plan that discusses increased capacity.

Touching Bases: Suit filed against airport expansion

PIPER CHEYENNE, GRAHAM, TEXAS, NOV.

Fog complicates VFR approach

The 2008 European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE) was an important litmus test to measure how the global business aviation marketplace mi

EBACE Report: A record-setter for deals signed and visitor numbers

Dubai-based JetEx Flight Support plans to open a new FBO at Paris Le Bourget Airport in October, providing full ground handling services and a large VIP lo

JetEx FBO coming to Le Bourget

A recent FAA briefing note concluded, “The future of ATC is all about data communications,” and government and industry officials, both in the U.S.

Datalink decisions are urgent, but true consensus is lacking

Last year, VisionAire of Chesterfield, Mo., signed a contract with Israel Aircraft Industries for the Tel Aviv OEM to conduct a nine-month technical assess

In The Works: VisionAire Vantage

As Chautauqua Airlines took delivery of its first four 44-seat Embraer ERJ-140s on December 1, the Air Line Pilots Association prepared to intensify effort

Eagle pilots stew over new Connection contracts

Los Angeles-based Teledyne Controls announced an agreement with satcom antenna maker EMS Technologies to design and integrate a high-speed data terminal fo

Avionics Update: EMS Technologies brings high-speed data to MagnaStar phones

With the ink still fresh on the paperwork certifying the installation of the $500,000 enhanced vision system (EVS) from Gulfstream and Kollsman, rival avio

CMC accelerates pace of enhanced vision testing

It’s on the sectional.

Rotorcraft Update: Pilot punctures space shuttle no-fly zone

Last month, the Santa Monica city council adopted an ordinance that increased the fines for repeat violations of the Santa Monica Airport noise abatement p

Touching Bases: Santa Monica ups noise fine to $10,000

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