All Business Jets articles – Page 94
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Opinion
OPINION: Business jet makers hit by values slump
Business aviation is not burdened by the uncompromising rules of economics in the way its commercial cousin is. While airline bosses fret about their equipment’s operating costs and depreciation rates, a business jet – especially a privately-owned, top-end model – is an aspirational product, where brand values may matter more ...
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Lt Michelle Leclerc US Coast Guard
Lt Junior Grade Michelle Leclerc is a Lockheed Martin C-130J pilot, flying on US Coast Guard missions such as search and rescue, drug interdiction, and ice operations
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NewsIcon A5 production slowdown amid customer backlash
Icon Aircraft has slowed production for the A5 amphibian from 175 aircraft this year to 20 and revised a controversial purchase agreement after a backlash from customers.
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NewsEBACE: Gulfstream's course for midsize segment undecided
Gulfstream’s future in the mid-size market is “yet to be determined”, says chief executive Mark Burns.
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News
EBACE: GDC Technics undeterred by excess completions capacity
GDC Technics acknowledges that a slowdown in the number of VIP aircraft completions has resulted in excess capacity in the market, but believes its ability to engineer and install increasingly complicated solutions puts it among a small handful of companies that are up to the job.
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News
EBACE: Panasonic takes on business aviation rivals
Panasonic Avionics knows it is late to the party on entering the business aviation market, but its decision to team up with Astronics AeroSat rather than build its own tail mount antenna will give it a faster route into the sector.
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News
Textron's new focus on product development
A static test aircraft and pieces of the first four of five planned flight test aircraft for the Cessna Citation Longitude are coming together on a makeshift assembly line inside the formerly empty bay of a Textron Aviation building known as Plant III.
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News
EBACE: Large-cabin jet values taking biggest hit: Ascend
The secondhand values of large-cabin jets are falling faster than those of smaller counterparts, as high-end business aircraft take the biggest hit from a collapse in demand from emerging economies.
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News
EBACE: Innovation aplenty but completions still challenging for Lufthansa Technik
Lufthansa Technik may be having a torrid time on the completions front – after taking the decision last year to put its Bizjet facility in Tulsa in “dormant mode” – but the German maintenance house is at EBACE in confident mood, promoting a series of cabin innovations from interior concepts ...
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News
EBACE: Single-minded: Dogged determination propels turboprop-singles
The commercial single-engined turboprop (SETP) sector is one of the most enduring yet understated niches of the business aviation market.
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News
EBACE: Bombardier forecasts healthy decade of deliveries
Bombardier is predicting 8,300 business jet deliveries – in the markets it competes in – over the next decade.
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News
EBACE: Panasonic and Astronics talk up broadband partnership
Astronics AeroSat expects the in-flight connectivity service it is developing for the business aviation market through its new partnership with Panasonic Avionics to be certified for retrofit installation on the Gulfstream IV family of aircraft in September.
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News
EBACE: GlobeAir and JetSuite unveil air taxi partnership
Customers of air taxi operators GlobeAir and JetSuite are to be offered a seamless travel experience when flying within Europe and the USA, following the launch at EBACE of a new partnership between the two air taxi pioneers.
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News
EBACE: Nextant taps Marshall Aerospace for 400XTi servicing
Nextant announced at EBACE that it has selected Marshall Aerospace as its exclusive authorised service centre for the 400XT/XTi in the UK.
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News
EBACE: Inmarsat 'open for business' on Jet ConneX
Inmarsat is poised to announce the service entry of its Jet ConneX Ka-band broadband connectivity solution for the business aviation market, and hopes to be able to offer the solution as a linefit option on aircraft manufactured by all of the main OEMs by the end of the year.
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News
EBACE: Dassault to fit Falcon 8X with ViaSat broadband service
Dassault Aviation has become the third business jet OEM to add ViaSat’s Ku-band in-flight connectivity system to its catalogue as a linefit option, and the satellite company is “in discussions” with other business aviation manufacturers with a view to adding them to the fold.
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News
EBACE: IASO launches as new aviation services umbrella body
A new umbrella organisation for the world of aviation services was launched in Geneva last night.
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News
EBACE: 'Tough decisive action' saves Bombardier
Bombardier says “tough decisive action last year to reduce production rates” has saved it from the worst of the collapse in new orders and residual values of large-cabin jets.
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News
EBACE: G500 stays home with eye on early delivery
Gulfstream ditched a plan to fly the G500 business jet to display at EBACE in order to focus on completing flight tests as quickly as possible, with an eye on delivering the first aircraft ahead of schedule, says chief executive Mark Burns.
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News
Lufthansa Technik bags VIP 787 modification deal
Lufthansa Technik has won a modification and support contract for a Boeing 787 that will be completed as a VIP aircraft.