All Business Jets articles – Page 141
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NewsEBACE: Dassault launches Falcon 8X, its largest, longest-range jet
Dassault has turned up the heat in the competitive ultra-long range sector with the launch at EBACE of its longest range and largest cabin Falcon – the 8X.
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NewsUSAF reveals notional specifications for JSTARS replacement
Replacing the Northrop Grumman E-8C JSTARS fleet could require an aircraft with a 10-13 person crew and a 3.96m-6.1m-long (13-20ft) radar array, according to newly-released US Air Force briefing documents.
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NewsEBACE: Beechcraft 350ER King Air is a multi-mission masterpiece
The Beechcraft King Air was introduced in 1964, and has proved to be one of the world’s most popular turboprop twins. While the folks in Wichita have been steadily working away, delivering more than 7,000 King Airs of various flavours since then, the corporate backdrop has been anything but stable. ...
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NewsPICTURES: Korea air force academy to obtain 23 KAI KC-100s
South Korea’s air force academy has entered a memorandum of understand to obtain 23 Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KC-100 Naraon light aircraft.
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NewsBombardier starts building ultra long-range Global 7000 and 8000
Bombardier has begun to assemble major structures for the first flight-test vehicle of the Global 7000 and 8000 programme. "The start of assembly of our first major structures represents a significant step forward," says Bassam Sabbagh, vice-president and general manager, for the ultra-long-range business jet duo.
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NewsLuxaviation snaps up UK's largest charter company
The UK’s biggest charter operator, London Executive Aviation (LEA) has been snapped up by Luxembourg business aviation services group Luxaviation for an undisclosed sum. The move has spawned one Europe’s largest charter companies with a fleet of 90 business jets and turboprops across its five bases.
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NewsFalcon 7X sets transatlantic speed record
Dassault’s Falcon 7X has set a new transatlantic speed record, flying between Teterboro in the New York metropolitan area and London City airport at an average speed of Mach 0.88.
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Comac sells first ARJ21 business jet
Comac has secured its first order for a business jet variant of the ARJ21 regional jet.
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NewsEBACE: What now for Europe's troubled business aviation sector?
It has been an unsettled six years for Europe’s business aviation sector. The continent – home to the largest business jet fleet outside North America, with an installed base of nearly 2,700 aircraft - is one of the major casualties of the economic crisis.
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AUVSI: Live demonstration shows potential of small UAVs
Nine suppliers of unmanned air vehicles gathered in a remote area of the sprawling Kennedy Space Center complex on 11 May to show how certain missions currently banned by US regulators can be performed safely with existing technology.
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NewsEBACE: Key business aviation programmes under development
While the economic downturn has been tough for the business aircraft sector, innovation and creativity is still alive and well. Airframers are aggressively developing clean-sheet designs and refreshing existing product lines to stimulate customer interest and exploit niche market segments in readiness for the market rebound
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NewsAirbus light aircraft initiative blazes trail to electric future
Airbus is gearing up to commercialise a light aircraft project that stands as a blueprint for an eventual move into the 90-seat regional transport market – with a hybrid-electric propulsion system.
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NewsDemand for light business jets improves in Q1
Corporate earnings reports have provided fresh evidence of improving market conditions in the long-depressed light jet segment in the first quarter, but not enough yet to raise deliveries.
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NewsCessna set to deliver upgraded Citation X in Q2
Cessna will certificate the new, higher-speed Citation X in the second quarter after a six-month delay and deliver several production aircraft, says Scott Donnelly, chief executive of Cessna parent company Textron.
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NewsDassault Falcon 5X assembly makes rapid progress
Dassault is nearing assembly of the first Falcon 5X, following the joining late last month of the main centre fuselage sub-assemblies of the large-cabin, long-range business jet
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SR Technics cuts completion costs with off-shelf VIP narrowbody cabin
SR Technics is launching an off-the-shelf interior product for Airbus and Boeing narrowbodies that it says will shave 30% off the typical time for a cabin installation by dumping many of the “habits” of the large-business jet completion industry.
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IJM wins legal victory for European business aviation
Austria-based International Jet Management GmbH (IJM) won a five-year legal battle when the European Court of Justice ruled that Germany has no right to demand three days notice of flights into its territory from outside the European Union. On 18 March 2014 the Court, ruled that a series of ...