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The exclusive JP Bizjet is back again with its 45th edition.

This 648-page directory provides businesses and enthusiasts with every bit of information they could need and want! The 2012 Bizjet will be published early March. 

Containing some 19,000 jets, 11,000 turboprops, and a 17-page colour selection of 48 aviation photos, it is a tool the aviation sector cannot do without!


The JP Biz-Jet directory lists the world fleet of corporate-owned aircraft, including:
•    individual listings for the 19,000 jets and turboprops, including VLJs;
•    listings by registration within country;
•    fully cross referenced by manufacturer and construction number;
•    over 3,000 aircraft written off or withdrawn from use;
•    summary reports by type and country;
•    Russian-manufactured types from Ilyushin, Tupolev and Yakovlev etc;
•    details of which aircraft within the in-service fleet are active or parked.


JP Bizjet is published as a book or in pdf format on CD.  You can also purchase our special package combi deal with both book and CD priced at just £31.00.

Bizjet CD 2012

It's day five of the Farnborough Airshow (which we are covering in depth here at our special site) so that means it is also the last day for a new question for our Concorde quiz.

It's day four of the Farnborough Airshow (which we are covering in depth here at our special site) so that means it is also day four of our Concorde quiz and time for a new question!

It's day three of the Farnborough Airshow (which we are covering in depth here at our special site) so that means it is also day three of of Concorde quiz and time for a new question!

It's day two of the Farnborough Airshow (which we are covering in depth here at our special site) so that means it is also day two of of Concorde quiz and time for a new question!

If you're just joining us, each day this week we are giving away a copy of David Leney and David Macdonald's new book Concorde: Owners' Workshop Manual (above). The book is illustrated in full colour and provides a detailed technical account of the supersonic transport. For your chance to win simply submit your answer to the question below. One winner will be chosen from all of the correct submissions.

How many Concordes were built, including prototypes and pre-production aircraft?
A 20
B 16
C 7
D 14

Submit your answer by sending an email with the letter corresponding to the correct answer in the subject line. E-mail flightglobal.webmaster@flightglobal.com

Concorde made a number of appearances at the Farnborough Airshow, including at the 1970 show--a moment captured above by our AirSpace member Orville. This year at the Farnborough Airshow (which we're covering in full depth at our special site) we're pleased to be bringing back a little bit of Concorde.

We've teamed up with David Leney and David Macdonald, the authors of the new book Concorde: Owners' Workshop Manual (below), to hold a quiz every day this week. If you answer correctly you'll go into a draw to win a copy of the book. We're giving away a copy of the book every day so be sure to take the quiz and send us the answer to increase your chances of winning. There's more information here.

Here's the first question:

What was the maximum temperature on Concorde's nose when cruising at Mach 2?

• A 146˚C
• B 127˚C
• C 100˚C
• D 217˚C

Submit your answer by sending an email with the letter corresponding to the correct answer in the subject line. E-mail flightglobal.webmaster@flightglobal.com

OK, you're still here. You need convincing.

Last August de Botton spent a week living at London Heathrow. No, he wasn't some wayward passenger: BAA offered him the gig and gave him full access and even permission to criticise the airport.

A Week at the Airport is his brilliant summation of an industry as it has never been told before. De Botton focuses on seemingly banal moments and in doing so brings a paradigmatic shift to viewing aviation.

To de Botton, a jet bridge about to dock with a British Airways B747-400 is actually a rubber mouth making a hesitant kiss. A sorrowful and teary good-bye between a couple is actually one of the high points in their lives: they have found in one another a person they cannot stand to be away from.

We bemoan the loss of aviation's glory days, but de Botton's lively descriptions restore the allure of flying machines that crisscross the globe. An aircraft's wheels on touchdown "prepared to greet rubber-stained English tarmac with a burst of smoke that made manifest their planes' speed and weight."

This illustrious work will not only help restore aviation's glamour to the public who cannot tell an Airbus from a Boeing, but also make the most die-hard aviation fan see aviation in a difference perspective.

I opened the cover after settling down in seat 23A on D7 2009 from London Stansted to Kuala Lumpur. Just a few minutes later the de-icing cherry picker outside was not a machine. With one light bulb at the top pointing straight ahead and one aiming down, it was a face winking. De Botton frequently surmises how Heathrow must appear as to passengers. I now saw that the de-icing cherry picker/face winking would offer the best view of my A340-300 if I was fortunate enough to be in the contraption, even with the bitter English winter outside.

I reached page 107, the last of this concise work, over the Gulf of Thailand. But it was some twenty pages earlier that de Botton made his most poignant statement. He talks with British Airways CEO Willie Walsh and realises they are not unlike. BA, losing £1.6 million a day in August, was representative of an industry de Botton claims has never collectively made a profit--just like writing.

That is not wrong, de Botton says. "It seemed as unfair to evaluate an airline according to its profit-and-loss statement as to judge a poet by her royalty statements." De Botton's proclamation may seem out of place on a site like ours where we report the financial situation of carriers.

Delve deep into our archive, however, and it is apparent that it is indeed not finances that capture the imagination. TWA and its Eero Saarinen terminal at JFK are beloved, but the carrier disappeared into American Airlines days before it would have had to declare bankruptcy. Pan Am with its Clippers and around-the-world flight is also revered despite a painful bankruptcy. And perhaps no aircraft is more famous than Concorde, which Walsh's BA found too costly to operate.

The way to judge the two, de Botton says, is that aviation and writing each needs "to justify itself in the eyes of humanity not so much by its bottom line as by its ability to stir the soul."