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Aircraft

Phenom 100 Damaged in Runway Departure

For at least the sixth time in more than a year, an Embraer Phenom 100 has experienced possible brake issues on landing.
Aircraft

Pilot report: Cessna Citation CJ4

Cessna demo pilot John Reimer wanted to wow me as I put the new CJ4 I was flying through its paces.
Regulations and Government

Revolving door continues at TSA

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) general aviation manager Brian Delauter, a former airline pilot with impeccable general aviation credentials,

Pro Barr support grows

Groups as diverse as the three largest general aviation organizations and the U.S.
Maintenance and Modifications

Talco, DRB Form Strategic Partnership

Talco Aviation and DRB Aviation have formed a “strategic partnership” that will provide a broad range of completions and refurbishment project supervisory
Maintenance and Modifications

Innotech, Esoteric Unveil Next-Gen IFE

Innotech Aviation has awarded California-based wireless technology specialist Esoteric of Irvine, Calif.
Maintenance and Modifications

Starling Aerospace Providing Stateroom Kit

Business aviation cabin components specialist Starling Aerospace (SAI) has undertaken a project to design, build and certify a stateroom/lavatory in kit fo
Maintenance and Modifications

SR Technics Opens Completion Center in Zurich

SR Technics, best known for its maintenance, repair and overhaul business of 80 years, is expanding into the private aviation cabin completion and refurbis
Maintenance and Modifications

Duncan Ramps Up to Meet Growing Demand

Like many others in the completion and refurbishment business, Duncan Aviation is ramping up as the sense of an industry recovery grows. In the past two mo
Aircraft

Pre-owned Update: Inventory continues to decrease slightly

The current pre-owned aircraft market can be defined as consistent as inventory continues to inch down, month-after-month.
Regulations and Government

Lawmakers wrestle over FAA reauthorization

                          
Airports

Mumbai Airport Opens International GA Terminal

Mumbai is the first airport in India to start international operations from a dedicated general aviation (GA) terminal, which until last month catered only
Regulations and Government

With ‘Day on the Hill’ NATA members reach out to Congress

Armed with talking points ranging from FAA reauthorization to long-term leases at airports, members of the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) l
Regulations and Government

Chamber of Commerce makes the case for NextGen

While most of the presentations at the U.S.
Charter & Fractional

Industry recover appears to be stumbling progress

If the business aviation industry is experiencing a recovery, it is by most indications a stumbling affair, with new markets leading the way. In early May,
Aircraft

Bombardier Forecasts 20-Year Market for 24,000 Deliveries

Looking forward to a continued recovery, Bombardier Aerospace released its annual Aircraft Market Forecasts on May 18, predicting 24,000 business aircraft

Rotorcraft Update: Operators Inaer, Bond to Become Sister Companies

Bond Aviation Group has been acquired by World Helicopters, a holding firm owned by Investindustrial and KKR.
Aircraft

Airbus Military Reveals A400M Schedule

Flight testing of the A400M airlifter is on track, and Airb
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Aircraft

Italy’s 767 Tankers Finally Enter Service; Australia’s A330 Tankers Yet To Be Accepted

There was news last week of two long-delayed air-refueling tanker contracts.
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AIN Blog: Aviation's balsa roots

I spent most of my childhood summers on my grandfather’s farm, in the misty hollows that nestle in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. In an age
Engines

GE Aviation Rebrands ‘TechX’ Turbofan Engine as ‘Passport’

GE Aviation announced this week at EBACE that its TechX engine, which Bombardier selected for its Global

EBACE 2011: TAG Aviation Focusing on Growth in Europe and Asia

Mansour Ojjeh, head of the privately owned TAG Group, said he had stepped off an airplane less than a half an hour before he sat down in the conference roo
Maintenance and Modifications

EBACE 2011: Keitas Systems Offer Smart Maintenance Software

Keitas Systems (Stand 1026), a start-up company based in Gex, France, not far from Geneva, is here introducing its Tempeus software program, designed to gi
Engines

EBACE 2011: GE Aviation Rebrands ‘TechX’ Turbofan Engine as ‘Passport’

GE Aircraft (Stand 358), whose TechX engine Bombardier selected to power its under-development Global 7000 and Global 8000 ultra-long-range business jets,
Training and Workforce

EBACE 2011: Dubai Airshow on Track To Be the Biggest Yet

The biennial Dubai Airshow, to be held from November 13 to 17 at the Dubai Airport Expo, is expected to draw as many as 1,000 exhibitors from more than 50
Aircraft

CEO Boisture Cautiously Optimistic about Future of ‘Smaller More Agile’ Hawker Beechcraft

“Cautious optimism” for the current business aviation market likely describes the consensus of opinion of the business aviation industry here at EBACE.
Airports

Bizav crowd can satisfy its impulse at Payerne

Switzerland is well established as a veritable hive of business aviation activity and now a quiet corner in the west of the country wants a piece of this
ATC

UK slots for Olympics will go fast

Business aircraft operators planning to fly to Britain for next summer’s Olympic Games are being encouraged to make early requests for mandatory landing a
Charter & Fractional

EBACE 2011: VistaJet Unveils Bombardier Global XRS with Tail Painted by Graffiti Artist Retna

Switzerland-based charter operator VistaJet here on Monday unveiled an unusual tail painting on one of its Bombardier Global XRS business jets–a work of ar
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