All Business Jets articles – Page 117
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ABACE: Amid lack of China business jet orders, OEMs still upbeat
This year’s ABACE show saw a notable absence in business jet order announcements from Chinese lessors and other buyers, but OEMs are still positive about the long term.
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ABACE: Cirrus lands 74 Chinese orders
Cirrus Aircraft has announced orders for 74 aircraft from Chinese customers, comprising 68 SR series piston-driven aircraft and six SF50 private jets.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Has the bubble burst for China's business aviation sector?
China’s business aircraft market grows up China is still an immense private jet market, but a glut of new aircraft and a changing political and economic outlook are weighing on private jet sales.
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ABACE: Mooney eyes China M10 production
Mooney is seriously exploring the possibility of a adding a production capability in China's Henan province to build its future M10 piston aircraft.
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ABACE: Boeing explores BBJ 737 combi possibility
Boeing is exploring the possibility of introducing a passenger/combi version of the Boeing Business Jet 737-700C.
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ABACE: Gulfstream, Bombardier still top private jets in Asia
A report published by aviation consulting firm Asian Sky Group (ASG) says that the number of business jets in the Asia Pacific grew 15% to 647 aircraft in 2014, but that 2015 will be a tough year for the region’s biggest market, China.
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ABACE: Textron announces raft of China transactions
Textron Aviation has announced orders for over a dozen aircraft in China and a new support offering for Chinese operators of the Cessna Caravan 208.
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NewsABACE: Embraer has 'no plan B' for Harbin joint venture
Embraer remains committed to its Harbin joint venture to assemble the Legacy 650 business jet, despite a challenging tax regime for the venture and a tightening market.
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NewsPilatus posts record profits
Pilatus Aircraft, the Swiss manufacturer of the PC family of business aircraft and military trainers, has posted its strongest-ever annual bresults.
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EBAA joins forces with CEPA to co-host annual Prague-based expo
The European Business Aviation Association has joined forces with fellow trade body Central European Private Aviation to organise and promote the annual CEPA Expo in Prague, the Czech Republic. The collaboration will help raise the international profile of the regional event, the first of which was held in 2010.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: France's ISAE studies reasons for pilot error
Pilots make mistakes. Mistakes are a product of the brain. If it were possible to identify the common neurological precursors for pilot errors, it might be possible to prevent them.
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NewsComlux America breaks ground on widebody completions facility
Comlux America, the US completions and service centre arm of the Comlux Group, has broken ground on an extension to its VIP completion hangar. The new construction is expected to be completed in six months, and will raise the footprint of the hangar to 14,600m² (160,000ft²) – large enough to ...
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NewsHondaJet powers up for worldwide demo tour
Honda Aircraft is preparing to begin a world tour with its HondaJet light business aircraft, ahead of planned US type certification and service entry of the $4.5 million twinjet in the coming months.
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NewsEASA simplifies PBN preparations
European operators can expect a less bureaucratic transition to performance-based navigation (PBN) procedures because EASA is simplifying the preparation and approval process.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Novaer develops new trainer, utility aircraft for world market
Privately-owned Novaer Craft’s thirty-odd employees temporarily operate from rented offices in a rather rundown office park positioned at the very edge of the São José dos Campos aerodrome. The location – adjacent to Embraer headquarters – is appropriate. Founded and managed by ex-Embraer employees, Novaer trusts that its new side-by-side, ...
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NewsAirlander receives environmentally-friendly transport funding
Furthering its campaign to raise the required funds to bring its Airlander 10 airship to flight, Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) has received a €2.5 million ($2.7 million) EU grant that is awarded to environmentally-friendly transport projects.
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NewsGrob SPn owner prepares to revive light business jet
The owners of the Grob SPn are looking to resurrect the light business jet programme, seven years after the project was halted following the insolvency of its developer, Grob Aerospace.
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EASA ponders commercial single-engine IMC ruling
EASA has recently completed its review of industry comments on the controversial subject of commercial single-engine turbine operations in instrument meteorological conditions (CAT SET-IMC), and expects to publish its Final Opinion “in the third quarter” of this year for rulemaking by the European Commission in 2016.
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NewsNetJets takes delivery of 100th US-assembled Embraer Phenom
The 100th Phenom to be assembled at Embraer’s facility in Melbourne, Florida, has been handed over to the airframer’s largest customer, NetJets.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: L-3 spurs ADS-B hopes for GA with low-cost Lynx
Five years ago, the US Federal Aviation Administration set a very ambitious goal. By 31 December 2019, any pilot operating in controlled airspace must carry a system compliant with automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) out that continuously transmits the aircraft’s identify and precise position.