All Business & General Aviation articles – Page 26
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NewsPiaggio sale stalls as preferred bidder fails to table offer
Piaggio Aerospace has restarted talks with potential buyers after a previous exclusive bidder failed to submit a concrete offer for the Italian airframer.
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NewsPA-46 accident passengers wrongly believed they were flying with airline
Inquiries into a Piper PA-46 landing accident in eastern France have underlined how companies facilitating private flights can easily be mistaken for commercial airlines by unwary and uninformed passengers. French investigation authority BEA has detailed its concern over the way the flight to Courchevel mountain airfield was arranged, after the ...
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NewsFrench firm Ascendance unveils fan-in-wing hybrid-electric aircraft design
French company Ascendance Flight Technologies has become the latest to unveil a proposed hybrid-electric aircraft design, a five-seat model intended to operate over a 400km range. Designated the ATEA, the aircraft features a double-wing and T-tailed configuration with rotary fan elements embedded in the wing structure. The developer says it ...
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NewsTextron’s Denali makes its first flight
Textron Aviation has performed the maiden sortie of its in-development Beechcraft Denali single-engined turboprop, kicking off the flight-testing phase.
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NewsDubai luxury hotel firm Five to take VIP A220 from Comlux
Dubai-based hotel and resort group Five is acquiring an Airbus A220 business jet from Switzerland’s Comlux Group. The twinjet – branded as the ACJ TwoTwenty – will be fitted with a VIP cabin interior specified by Five from January next year, and will enter into service with the company in ...
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NewsGulfstream to open new services facility in Arizona
Business jet manufacturer Gulfstream is investing some $70 million to build a new aircraft maintenance and services facility at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway airport in Arizona.
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NewsNTSB blames Tamarack winglet malfunction for 2018 crash
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says that a 2018 accident that killed three was caused by Tamarack Aerospace’s Atlas active winglet system.
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NewsBacklog at Gulfstream soars to six-year high on booming demand
Gulfstream’s backlog is now at its highest for six years as the airframer continues to benefit from a resurgent market for business jets.
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OpinionWhy business jet sales are set to take off again
After a long period where sales were becalmed, corporate jet manufacturers are once again starting to see orders pile up, writes Brian Foley.
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NewsPA-18 display team's precautions insufficient to avert fatal mid-air collision
Dutch investigators have determined that a Piper PA-18 formation display team was practising a new, but inherently hazardous, manoeuvre with insufficient risk mitigation before the two aircraft fatally collided. The accident occurred at Oudemolen, some 25km south of Rotterdam, on 21 June 2019 as the pilots rehearsed a familiar display ...
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NewsHonda Aircraft unveils 10-passenger HondaJet 2600 concept
Honda Aircraft has unveiled a new business jet concept intended to sit at the upper end of the light-jet segment but have sufficient range and size to enable it to compete in the mid-size market.
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NewsMomentum on the rise in electric air taxi sector
Electric air taxis have descended on the NBAA show in Las Vegas this year, with several developers promising the emerging sector could soon eclipse traditional business aviation in size.
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NewsThrive signs for three more Citation Longitudes
Las Vegas Henderson airport-based Thrive Aviation has signed a deal for three more Textron Aviation Citation Longitudes at the NBAA show.
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NewsVerdeGo completes validation of its VH-3 hybrid powerplant
Propulsion specialist VerdeGo has validated its VH-3 hybrid powerplant with a series of tests, bringing the industry one step closer to electrification of aviation and sustainable flight.
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InterviewJet Aviation president David Paddock on riding out the pandemic
Few companies in private air travel can take the temperature of the market as quickly and effectively as Jet Aviation. The Swiss-based service provider, part of Gulfstream parent General Dynamics since 2008, has operations on four continents, and across four distinct activities: maintenance, aircraft management and charter, fixed-base operations, and large-jet completions. Its 2018 acquisition of Hawker Pacific added a fifth: air force sustainment.
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NewsRolls-Royce sees faster than expected rebound in business aircraft sector
Almost all Rolls-Royce-powered business aircraft are back operating to pre-pandemic levels after what the engine manufacturer describes as a faster than expected recovery in the sector.
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InterviewComlux chief executive Richard Gaona on hopes for the ACJ TwoTwenty
Charter and completions specialist Comlux is highly invested in the new corporate aircraft version of Airbus’s smallest narrowbody, the ACJ TwoTwenty programme.
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NewsBombardier unveils Challenger 3500 launch customer
Bombardier has disclosed Entertainment Technology Partners chief executive Les Goldberg has become launch customer of the airframer’s Challenger 3500 business jet, an in-development update to the Challenger 350.
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NewsCollins launches cloud-based business-aviation platform
Collins Aerospace is showcasing Izon, a cloud-based business-aviation platform that integrates various operational services and will be compatible with some third-party-developed applications, after a launch just ahead of coming to Las Vegas.
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NewsTextron displays first mock-ups of enhanced business jet offerings
Textron Aviation has elevated its offering in the light and midsize business jet segments by launching updated variants of its Cessna Citation M2 and Citation XLS.