All Business Jets articles – Page 72
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EBACE: Payment platform PayNode set for European launch
PayNode – the business aviation payment platform unveiled at NBAA in Orlando by the company behind the Avinode online charter marketplace – is to launch in Europe.
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EBACE: Four used A380s offered to head-of-state market
Geneva-based reseller Sparfell & Partners has announced it’s been charged to market four used Airbus A380s as Head of State aircraft and will unveil at EBACE a Winch Design-provided rendering of the private double-decker.
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EBACE: Rivals for power in the business aviation engine market
In a business aircraft market that has seen a spate of new programmes, they are the power behind the flown: the industry’s five main turbojet manufacturers have been busy of late.
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Bombardier opens first wholly-owned UK service centre
Bombardier opened its first wholly owned service centre in the UK on 18 May, with London Biggin Hill airport home to the new operation. The facility is also Bombardier's first fully owned base in Europe to offer tip-to-tail maintenance on its Global, Challenger and Learjet business jet families. It complements ...
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EBACE: GainJet to base new medevac operation at Stansted
Greek VIP charter operator and management company GainJet is basing a new medevac operation at London Stansted, using a Bombardier Challenger 604 registered under its Irish subsidiary’s air operator’s certificate.
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EBACE: MEBAA means business in Morocco
The Middle East Business Aviation Association is at EBACE to promote what it says is the sector’s next big event – September’s MEBAA show in Morocco – with founding and executive chairman Ali Alnaqbi promising its new location of Marrakech will attract more delegates than its 2015 precedessor in Casablanca.
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EBACE: Business aviation manufacturers face another difficult year says Flight Ascend Consultancy
Business aircraft manufacturers are enduring another torrid year, with deliveries likely to fall again, backlogs tighter than in the wake of the global financial crisis, and continuing fierce competition as an increasing number of aircraft types vie for sales.
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EBACE: Connectivity competition tightens in business aviation market
Competition between in-flight connectivity providers to the business aviation market is intensifying, as incumbents and newcomers jostle to put across the message that they are best-placed to meet rapidly growing demand for these services.
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Brian Humphries, President of the European Business Aviation Association
Brian Humphries, president of the European Business Aviation Association, has been fighting the industry's corner for more than two decades
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GAMA reports modest rise in first quarter deliveries
Shipments of business and general aviation aircraft rose modestly in the first quarter, but performance across the sector was mixed.
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EBACE: Embraer's new business aviation boss changes the conversation
Business jet sales are stuck at a market-wide range of 650-700 aircraft per year. A few hopeful signs are visible in the market data, but nothing that fills forecasters with unbridled optimism.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: The dream of resuming supersonic flight ramps up
Fourteen years after the retirement of the Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde, the dream of resuming civilian supersonic flight has seemed never more active than in 2017, with four major development efforts scheduled to pass key milestones before the year ends. Activity stretches across laboratories, boardrooms and assembly hangars dotted across the USA.
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Piaggio delivers first North American-based Avanti Evo
US business aviation charter and fractional ownership provider West Coast Aviation Services (WCAS) has taken delivery of the first North American-based Piaggio Avanti Evo, from a November 2016 order for up to nine of the twin-pusher turboprops.
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NewsDuncan prepares to break ground on Provo MRO facility
US maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) provider Duncan Aviation is preparing to start work on a 20,440m² (220,000ft²), $50 million facility in Provo, Utah, to exploit the growing demand for its engineering services from the business aviation community.
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ANALYSIS: Is Europe's business aviation market rebounding?
What a difference a decade makes. Ten years ago, Europe’s business aviation industry was basking in one of the most prosperous periods in its history, with booming sales, a healthy order pipeline and high aircraft utilisation. These halcyon days ended abruptly a year later with the onset of the global ...
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Cessna rolls out last Mustang after genre-defining run
Cessna has stopped making the Citation Mustang that defined a once-booming market for entry-level light jets when the Textron Aviation subsidiary launched the programme 15 years ago.
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NewsCessna flies fourth Citation Longitude
Cessna flew the fourth and penultimate Cessna Citation Longitude flight-test aircraft on 6 May, putting the super-midsize business jet on track for US certification and service entry in the fourth quarter.
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Bombardier's third Global 7000 test aircraft makes maiden flight
Bombardier has completed the first flight of its third Global 7000 flight-test vehicle, with the 10 May sortie taking place from its Toronto site.
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PICTURES: Airlander flies again after hard landing
The Airlander hybrid airship has flown again nine months after crashing on its second test flight. The world’s largest flying structure – built by Hybrid Air Vehicles – lifted from her moorings at Cardington airfield in the UK at 17.28 local time on 10 May, landing again after a flight ...
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NewsDiamond sells a fourth DA62 to Flight Calibration Services
UK flight inspection services provider Flight Calibration Services (FCSL) has acquired a fourth Diamond DA62 piston-twin to help bolster its growing business.