All Business Jets articles – Page 96
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Opinion
OPINION: Why business jet makers are turning to the military
Spare a thought for the small handful of large-cabin business jet manufacturers, because times have been pretty tough of late, with sales taking a tumble.
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NewsHybrid Air Vehicles in race to debut Airlander at Farnborough
The biggest aircraft to grace the skies over Farnborough will make its show debut in July if Hybrid Air Vehicles can meet its target of putting its Airlander 10 airship through more than around 20 hours of flight testing in the next six weeks or so.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: North Sea safety a work in progress
UK-based North Sea oil support helicopter operators have been engaged in a whirl of activity ever since the UK Civil Aviation Authority published its review of the sector’s safety performance in February, and some new ditching survivability measures are already in place.
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NewsGAMA reveals first-quarter deliveries slump
Shipments of business and general aviation aircraft fell across all sectors during the first quarter of 2016, triggered by the continued slump in demand for new platforms from the global marketplace.
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NewsComlux America opens expanded widebody completions hangar
Comlux America, the US aircraft completions and service centre arm of the Comlux Group, has opened its hangar extension in Indianapolis, a year after it broke ground on the new building.
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NewsFalcon 2000LXS performs first LPV approach at Charles de Gaulle
A Dassault Falcon 2000LXS has become the first business jet to fly an instrument approach with a published localizer performance with vertical guidance (LPV) minima of 200ft (LPV200), using the European geostationary navigation overlay service.
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NewsFirst Citation CJ1 gets Tamarack winglet upgrade
Textron Aviation has installed the first pair of winglets designed and manufactured by US engineering company Tamarack Aerospace on a Cessna Citation CJ1 light business jet. The Atlas winglets were fitted to the six-seat twin – registration HB-VPF – at Textron’s Zurich, Switzerland-based service centre in late April.
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Flight Safety Foundation chief explains why data matters
John Beatty is president and chief executive of the Flight Safety Foundation
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NewsPerlan II readies for record-breaking ascent to 90,000ft
Airbus Group chief executive Tom Enders took the controls of the two-seat Perlan II glider during a 10min test flight on 7 May from the windswept, high-desert airport in Minden, Nevada, raising the public profile of a volunteer team of aviation adventurers hoping to make history in about four months.
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News
Delivery slide blunts Gulfstream's first-quarter performance
Shipments of Gulfstream business jets fell nearly 16% in the first quarter, but sales of the airframer’s large-cabin and midsize aircraft were robust during the period.
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NewsJet Aviation Basel refurbishes first Legacy 650
Jet Aviation has refurbished its first Embraer Legacy 650 business jet on behalf of a private owner. The project was undertaken at the business aviation services provider’s completions centre in Basel, Switzerland, during its scheduled C-check heavy maintenance inspection. The large-cabin business jet has since been sold to Johannesburg-headquartered company ...
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NewsLoch Lomond Seaplanes takes delivery of new Caravan amphibian
Loch Lomond Seaplanes has taken delivery of a new Cessna 208 Caravan amphibian. The $2.7 million, single-engined turboprop touched down at the operator's base near Glasgow, Scotland on 24 April, following a four day, seven-leg, 4,350nm (8,050km) flight from Wipaire’s headquarters in South St Paul, Minneapolis – where the Caravan's ...
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NewsPlaneSense prepares to expand with third Nextant 400XTi
US fractional ownership company PlaneSense is poised to take delivery of its third Nextant 400XTi business jet in less than a year, to cater for growing demand for the light twin-engined type from shareowners of its 34-strong fleet of Pilatus PC-12NGs.
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NewsBombardier records fall in first-quarter business jet deliveries
Shipments of Bombardier business jets plunged by nearly a third in the first quarter of the year, due to falling demand for the airframer’s light, large and long-range business jets.
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Clive Jackson - Founder Victor Aerospace
Clive Jackson is the founder and chief executive of online business aircraft booking platform Victor, a venture he created in 2011 to shake up the traditional charter model
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NewsENAC authorises testing of optionally piloted Tecnam P92
Italy’s civil aviation authority, ENAC, has authorised the country’s CIRA aerospace research centre to test fly an optionally piloted variant of a Tecnam P92 Echo S light sport aircraft.
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News
Solar Impulse resumes round-world solar-powered challenge
After a nine-month delay for repairs in Hawaii, the Solar Impulse round-the-world flight attempt resumed with a two-day, 14hr flight to NASA’s Moffett Field, near San Francisco.
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Ian Cooper, chief executive, Airways Aviation
Ian Cooper is chief executive of UK training provider Airways Aviation. A former pilot with British Airways, Cooper is determined to expand training provision for a new generation of budding aviators
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NewsGulfstream secures US approval for GIV-SP synthetic vision
Operators of Gulfstream GIV-SP business jets equipped with PlaneDeck avionics can now add synthetic vision to its suite of cockpit functions, following approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration for the retrofit. A similar supplemental type certification is now being sought for the GV and GIV business jets.
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NewsQuest Kodiak poised for European approval
Quest Aircraft is hoping to secure European validation of its Kodiak single-engined turboprop this quarter, so it can begin deliveries of locally-registered versions of the 10-seat utility type. The continent is already home to six Kodiaks operated on the US N-register.