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Jet Aviation in Basel, Switzerland, is well under way on an executive/VIP Airbus A320 interior it expects to deliver in July to a first-time customer.

In a city that already had two interior completion and refurbishment centers, one more might have been one too many.

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A new Web-based tool for NBAA members provides business aircraft manufacturers and operators real-time information about business aircraft maintenance and

Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta told a group of space-travel enthusiasts last month that the DOT/ FAA will be ready to issue permits for commercial

FAA airport safety researchers have created a prototype taxiway screen that could help prevent runway incursions at airports with taxiways that pass well b

Aviation Technologies has created what it believes is a solution to the time-consuming process of checking air passenger and employee names against Transpo

Eurocopter last year secured orders for 401 new civil/parapublic and military helicopters, up from 322 in 2004.

Business Jets: In 2007 demand for business jets surges This year the business jet market started off busy and never took a breather.

What a difference a year makes.In AIN’s annual report on aviation finance last year (October 2006, page 38), lenders expected 200

With a commendable bow toward candor, Honeywell released its civil helicopter market outlook at Heli-Expo by qualifying the results of its survey: “The 200

Crystal-ball gazing is a major part of any trade show.

Maybe it was pent-up demand.

Former Top Gun instructor-pilot Robert Sturgell, who took over the FAA as acting administrator when Marion Blakey completed her five-year term on September

While corporate aviation has an enviable safety record, one comparable to that of the airlines, some flight departments operate on a shoestring budget with

An exterior paint job on a Gulfstream G550 will typically cost in the neighborhood of $150,000 and, with proper care and maintenance, will last about five

BaySys Technologies in Accomac, Va., has been contracted to build and install an executive interior in a green Airbus A340-200 for a Middle Eastern custome

Interiors development and certification specialist Millennium Concepts of Wichita has received an order from Quest Aircraft for follow-on production interi

Lufthansa Technik has won a contract to do the first interior for an executive version of Boeing’s new 747-8.

AirCell has received European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certification for its Axxess EZ satcom system on Bombardier’s Challenger 600, 601 and 604.

Steecon Enterprises has developed a bulkhead swinging door.

Arinc Direct customers will soon be discovering new horizons.

In collaboration with TAG Aircraft Interiors, Italian design house Gianni Versace of Milan continues to move into the business aviation cabin.

Reed Exhibitions’ Aircraft Interiors Expo team is launching a new event for the Americas.

B/E Aerospace has begun deliveries of its new UltimateComfort executive seat with adjustments ranging from “comfortable” to “bliss.” The Miami-based compan

Embraer Executive Aircraft has selected Alto Aviation of Leominster, Mass., as the baseline cabin entertainment audio system for all the Brazilian manufact

Elliott Aviation recently completed its first transformation of a Hawker 700A cabin into an 800XP equivalent.

German interiors specialist Lufthansa Technik will be providing its network integrated cabin equipment (Nice) system to Bombardier as standard equipment on

Midcoast Aviation in East Cahokia, Ill., is offering customers BlackBerry connectivity.

Bombardier’s bottom line was bolstered by “solid” demand for its business jets, and the company said it plans to increase production to ease record backlog