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.
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.
Las Vegas Henderson airport-based Thrive Aviation has signed a deal for three more Textron Aviation Citation Longitudes at the NBAA show.
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.
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.
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.
Charter and completions specialist Comlux is highly invested in the new corporate aircraft version of Airbus’s smallest narrowbody, the ACJ TwoTwenty programme.
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.
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.
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.
After steering its way through the crisis, NBAA chief executive Ed Bolen says the business aviation community cannot wait to reconnect in person for the first time in two years
Fractional aircraft-ownership company NetJets is committing to buying another 100 of Embraer’s Phenom 300E light jets.
Remarkable optimism among business-jet operators has led Honeywell to hike its aircraft delivery expectations for the next 10 years.
Honeywell has developed a new line of avionics that the company says is lighter and more intuitive than current systems and that significantly advances the state of avionics connectivity and autonomy, potentially one day allowing for fewer pilots in the cockpit.
Having already impressed with earlier versions of its SF50 Vision Jet, Cirrus has again raised the bar with the newly available G2+ model, offering enhanced performance and new safety features.
The business aviation industry will use this year’s gathering to take stock of its sustainability credentials at a show expected to place more emphasis on the environment than ever before.
Covid-19 may be making long-haul travel difficult, but demand for the biggest business jets is rising. And with three new entrants to the market, competition is heating up in this profitable segment.
Air taxi developers have been buoyed by major recent investments in their advanced air mobility projects, but now the hard work begins on the path to achieving certification and service entry.
Despite worries about the pandemic’s effect on attendance, this year’s business aviation event in Las Vegas will cater for a booming sector awaiting a number of potentially disruptive developments.
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Leonardo has reiterated that it has no interest in acquiring Piaggo Aerospace despite being urged by an Italian government minister to bid for the troubled airframer.
Piaggio Aerospace’s future ownership appears no closer to resolution after the Italian government minister responsible for the company extended its administration period by a further year.
Dassault Aviation continues to feel the pinch from supply chain challenges which have forced the French airframer to slow the ramp up of its new Falcon 6X business jet and pushed back the arrival of the developmental 10X.
The US Federal Aviation Administration has granted Slovenian light aircraft manufacturer Pipistrel an airworthiness exemption for its Velis Electro trainer.
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has revised a 2021 accident report to remove a conclusion that Tamarack Aerospace’s Atlas active winglets caused a deadly Cessna Citation 525 crash in 2018.
Beyond Aero claims to have completed France’s first manned flights of an electric aircraft powered by hydrogen.
Pilots of the Bombardier Challenger 604 that crashed on a Florida highway on 9 February received low oil pressure warnings for both engines moments before they reported that both powerplants failed.
Deliveries of business and general aviation aircraft last year topped 4,000 for the first time in more than a decade, according to newly released figures from the trade association representing the sector’s manufacturers.
Swiss business and military trainer aircraft maker Pilatus delivered 148 aircraft in 2023 - up from 133 the year before - and increased both sales and operating profit, making it a “superlative year” for the company.
Easing supply chain pressures should allow Bombardier to begin ramping up production of Global aircraft this year, enabling increased deliveries of the large-cabin business jet family in 2025.
Daher is considering producing TBM 960s at a site next to its recently acquired aerostructures plant in Florida to tackle looming capacity constraints in France and possible protectionist moves by a new US administration.
US airframer Piper Aircraft has unveiled the M700 Fury – its fastest ever single-engined aircraft – a turboprop that boasts an uprated Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A engine that offers a maximum cruise speed of over 300kt (555km/h) and climb performance 34% better than its M600 SLS predecessor.
Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) has announced a “reservation agreement” with French eco-tourism company Grands Espaces that will likely see it take one of the first three Airlander 10s off the production line.
Honda Aircraft recently delivered the 250th HA-420 HondaJet, a milestone coming about eight years after the type’s certification and as the company turns its attention to developing the larger HA-480 Echelon.
Gulfstream is hoping that deliveries of its G700 can begin in the current quarter after slower than anticipated certification of the ultra-long-range business jet by the Federal Aviation Administration caused revenue and profit to fall below expectations for 2023.
All 230 employees of RUAG’s Swiss aerostructures division are to join Pilatus as part of an ongoing “unbundling” of the state-owned entity.
Indian executive jet operator JetSetGo has reached a provisional agreement for Horizon Aircraft hybrid eVTOLs under which it could purchase up to 100 of the Canadian developer’s Cavorite X7.
Cirrus Aircraft has introduced a new variant of its popular single-engine SR-series aircraft, with a redesigned interior, updated electronics and displays, advanced safety systems and other comfort and “convenience features” for both pilots and passengers.
The US Federal Aviation Administration has granted Icon Aircraft’s A5 amphibious airframe type certification in the primary category, clearing the way for the aircraft type to be sold and registered outside of the USA
The US Federal Aviation Administration has established a panel to examine air traffic controller fatigue.