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Charter & Fractional

Fractional regs remain contentious

The leadership of the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) believes it has now reached a workable consensus on the complex and contentious issue o
Maintenance and Modifications

API to expand in Europe and China

Aerospace Products International (API) of Memphis, Tennessee, will open a new facility in June at Shanghai, China, to serve Asian customers, and another fa
Charter & Fractional

Sovereign on display here toils for Bookajet

Still factory fresh from Cessna is the new Citation Sovereign being shown in the EBACE static aircraft park by UK business aircraft charter and management
Aircraft

Spectrum is shoring up support for its new bizjet

Spectrum Aeronautical (Booth No.
Aircraft

Launch Customer Can't Wait To Get Flying

Socata’s owner customer survey shows that 63 percent of typical TBM pilots regularly fly more than 500 nm and 15 percent regularly fly more than 1,000 nm.
Aircraft

Customers asked Socata for speed, more speed and even more speed

EADS Socata is confident that it has the answer to the challenge of the very light jet (VLJ) threat in its latest single turboprop, the six-seat TBM 850.
Aircraft

Airbus pilot tests TBM 850

“Handling is good in pitch but a little hard on bank.

Wireless Wonder

Bernhard Conrad, Lufthansa Technik senior vice president, demonstrates the wireless touchscreen remote control that is part of his company’s Nice (networke
Training and Workforce

Falcon 7x Training

Dassault and CAE have held the first meetings of the Falcon 7X training advisory board in Burgess Hill, UK, and Dallas, Texas.

Business aviation goes primetime with bbc

Business aviation is enjoying a higher profile worldwide, as evidenced by the presence of BBC television here at the EBACE show this week to film a documen
Charter & Fractional

ExecuJet and Pilatus: Why They Split

When ExecuJet and Pilatus simultaneously announced on February 8 that they were progressively phasing out their sales agreements for the PC-12, the two com

As 6th EBACE opens, business aviation fights misconceptions

Environment, access and security are still the three main challenges that business aviation has to address in Europe, EBAA CEO Brian Humphries said yesterd

Universal Avionics and CMC Electronics Form Alliance

Universal Avionics president and CEO Ted Naimer (left) and CMC Electronics president and CEO Jean-Pierre Mortreux signed a multiyear distributor agreement
Maintenance and Modifications

Bombardier, LHT building Lear hangar in Schoenefeld

Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation Services (LBAS) is building a new Learjet hangar at Berlin Schoenefeld Airport, a move that reflects the Canadian manufacture
Aircraft

G150 claims Tel Aviv/GVA city-pair record

Gulfstream Aerospace is claiming a record for a G150 flight from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Geneva on May 1.
Engines

Dirty King Air stacks are taken to the cleaners

A visit to Frakes booth will not only reveal how to avoid getting ugly exhaust stack soot stains on turboprop nacelles but also how to prevent oil stains f

Abu Dhabi-based shareholder wants real say in Avanti

Mudabala Development, an investment company owned by the government of Abu Dhabi, is considering playing an industrial role within Piaggio Aero (Booth No.
Charter & Fractional

PrivatAir eyes larger planes

PrivatAir, the Geneva-based specialist for large executive aircraft charter, announced that it was at an advanced stage of evaluation of additional large a
Charter & Fractional

Airbus Corporate Jet makes a JetAlliance

Austrian charter operator Jet-Alliance (Booth No.
Charter & Fractional

Zurich start-up is just Phenom(enal)

Embraer’s European unveiling of its Phenom 100 very light and 300 light jet full-scale cabin mockups here yesterday provided a platform for the Phenom’s fl

Bombardier shuttles seen as corporate travel solution

The service entry in Canada at the end of March of Bombardier’s Challenger 850 corporate shuttle, just one year from its launch here at EBACE 2005, highlig
Aircraft

Honeywell Apex will guide Grob SPn business jet

The Grob SPn light business jet will feature an enhanced Apex cockpit, provided by Honeywell.
Aircraft

Adam Aircraft expects Euro sales for A500/A700 to grow

Adam Aircraft president and COO Joe Walker is about to appoint a factory direct sales representative to promote sales in Europe and sees this region as hav

Bombardier shuttles seen as corporate travel solution

The service entry in Canada at the end of March of Bombardier’s Challenger 850 corporate shuttle, just one year from its launch here at EBACE 2005, highlig
Aircraft

Europe suits Premier IA, Hawker 850XP just fine

While the Premier IA and Hawker 850XP business twinjets are targeted at very different buyers, Raytheon (Booth No.

Raytheon Focuses on Human Face of Product Support

Back in 2000, customers were not thrilled with Raytheon’s product-support performance, and neither was the airframer itself.
Aircraft

Raytheon mulling light-midsize gap

Raytheon Aircraft (Booth No.
Aircraft

Gulfstream set order record for non-fractional aircraft last year

Gulfstream Aerospace president Bryan Moss had hard numbers here at the EBACE show yesterday as evidence of business aviation’s improving fortunes.
FBOs

Feras promoting customer loyalty plan

Prague-based Feras executive ground handling organization is using the EBACE show to roll out its new StarJet customer loyalty program.