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A Bell 206L3 owned and operated by Petroleum Helicopters crashed on its way to an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico on October 10, killing the pilot and t

Tom Macdonald, the Osprey V-22 chief test pilot, received the Iven C.

Robinson Helicopter delivered its first R22 piston single in October 1979.

In separate ceremonies at last month’s NBAA Convention, Bell/Agusta announced the sale of a corporate AB139 to American International Group and Eurocopter

The fatal crash on September 20 of an American Eurocopter AStar operated by Las Vegas air-tour operator Sundance Helicopters killed all six of the rotorcra

Keystone Helicopter of West Chester, Pa., signed a five-year nonexclusive contract with Sikorsky Aircraft to provide executive completions for the new S-92

The French town of Cannes faces the closure of one of its licensed heliports next March if local authorities do not reach a decision on an alternate site.

Kollsman, the company that invented the first sensitive barometric altimeter in 1928 and the first enhanced vision system (EVS) on the Gulfstream V in 2001

July 1 is the 75th anniversary of United States Aviation Insurance Group, better known as USAIG.

After last year, when the total number of U.S.-registered turbine business airplanes involved in serious accidents decreased significantly from 2001, the a

The fifth aircraft in Bombardier Aerospace’s Challenger 300 certification program joined the flight-test fleet on March 8 when it flew for the first time.

Early last month, while Bombardier’s Wichita and Canadian business jet production and assembly facilities remained closed during an unprecedented, four-mon

Two independent projects working on RVSM group certification packages for the Learjet 20 series appear to be neck and neck in terms of price and availabili

The FAA granted a request from four trade associations to delay the compliance date of new repair station rules.

The FAA recently codified into Parts 91 and 93 flight restrictions that have been in effect “temporarily” (for 10 years) in the vicinity of Niagara Falls a

CharterAuction.com is claiming that “many [fractional] customers who were sold [shares] five years ago on the basis of a 90-percent aircraft resale value a

Since its launch two months ago, CharterAuction.com said its block-charter auction program has offered 50-percent or greater savings over competing fractio

FlightSafety International and CAE SimuFlite have separately introduced a four-hour course to meet the FAA’s new training requirements for pilots who want

Brothers to the Rescue has ceased operations.

In response to continued inquiries into DRVSM, NBAA has created two documents to provide more information: an RVSM timeline that explains the history of RV

The FAA has released a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) regarding implementation on Jan.

Sino Swearingen last month started test flying the second conforming version of its SJ30-2 twinjet, a milestone that company president and CEO Carl Chen de

All three people aboard a Citation Eagle II were killed when the twinjet crashed while on approach in rain and mist to Friedman Memorial Airport in Hailey,

After a Learjet 55 on an IFR flight from Syracuse, N.Y., on February 26 lost voice and transponder communications over Holston Mountain, Tenn., ATC notifie

Gulfstream Aerospace has joined other major manufacturers of business jets that are planning another round of layoffs and production cutbacks this year in

A study aimed at providing data on pilot fatigue during long flights has started in Australia.

B/E Aerospace received a PMA for its LED wash lighting for the Gulfstream IV.

None of the 34 accidents that befell FAR Part 121 scheduled airlines last year resulted in fatalities, according to NTSB preliminary statistics.

Ground test runs started last month on the 4,900-pound-thrust TFE731-50, Honeywell’s newest business jet engine.

As he does every year in his annual report, Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett gave his frank and folksy description of how his company’s many holdings