All Business Jets articles – Page 25

  • Bombardier Global 7500
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    PARIS: Global 7500 makes its show debut

    2019-06-18T15:59:50Z

    Bombardier's flagship Global 7500 is making its Paris air show debut, with the arrival of the ultra-long-range business jet marking the climax of its six-month, eight-country demonstration tour.

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    PARIS: Cape Air named as launch customer for the Alice electric aircraft

    2019-06-18T15:40:21Z

    Israeli start-up Eviation Aircraft has announced Cape Air as the commercial launch customer for its Alice all-electric aircraft, with the “double-digit purchase option” from a long-established airline helping to validate the in-development design and put the nascent sector on the map.

  • CL-515 -c-Viking Air
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    PARIS: Viking Air wins launch order for CL-515 water bomber

    2019-06-18T15:30:52Z

    ​Viking Air has secured a launch order for its new-generation CL-515 water bomber from Indonesia, with a seven-unit deal that also includes a single modernised CL-415EAF.

  • Gulfstream G600
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    PARIS: Gulfstream G600 makes Paris debut

    2019-06-18T14:43:42Z

    Soaking up the sunshine on the Gulfstream static is the G600, which is making its Paris debut ahead of its planned certification early in the third quarter.

  • Qatar Executive Gulfstream G500
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    PARIS: Qatar Executive debuts its G500

    2019-06-18T13:12:11Z

    Little more than a week since its arrival in Doha, Qatar Executive’s fourth Gulfstream G500 has made the trip to Paris where it is taking centre stage on the Qatar static alongside an Airbus A350 widebody belonging to its sister airline

  • EmbraerX EVOTL
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    PARIS: EmbraerX shares its vision for urban air mobility

    2019-06-18T08:47:15Z

    EmbraerX has arrived at Paris to share its exciting vision for the future of urban air mobility and the vital role that disruptive technology and industry collaboration will play in creating and sustaining this market.

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    PARIS: Daher buoyant after Quest acqusition

    2019-06-18T07:13:55Z

    Patrick Daher, chairman of French aircraft manufacturing, aerostructures and logistics group Daher, is bullish about the company's prospects with newly acquired US airframer Quest Aircraft as part of its portfolio.

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    PARIS: Embraer and Elta team on P600 AEW aircraft

    2019-06-18T05:36:16Z

    ​Embraer and Israel's Elta Systems have launched at Paris the P600 AEW, an airborne early warning variant of the Brazilian manufacturer's Praetor 600 super-midsize business jet.

  • Patrick Daher
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    PARIS: Largest show on record with over 2,450 exhibitors

    2019-06-17T12:27:50Z

    This year’s Paris Air show – the 53rd outing in its 110 year history – is the biggest ever, with the number of exhibitors at the longest-running and largest aerospace event in the world exceeding 2,450. “We sold out within weeks of opening the booking in October 2018,” says ...

  • Jaunt Air Mobility
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    PICTURES: Honeywell, Safran offer sky taxi commonalities

    2019-06-14T20:59:59Z

    ​Safran and Honeywell are building parts for the nascent urban air mobility industry with the aim of serving common needs for the diverse array of aircraft concepts.

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    Daher snaps up US firm Quest Aircraft

    2019-06-13T15:10:35Z

    ​Daher, the manufacturer of the TBM line of high-speed turboprops, is to acquire USA-based Quest Aircraft, which makes the Kodiak 100 short take-off and landing aircraft.

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    KAI to supply wings for Gulfstream G280

    2019-06-13T05:53:46Z

    Korea Aerospace Industries will supply the wings of the Gulfstream G280 business jet for the first time, after it inked a deal with Israel Aerospace Industries for a period of about 11 years.

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    Lilium picks London as its software engineering hub

    2019-06-12T14:52:25Z

    German electric aircraft developer Lilium is to base its software engineering hub in London to take advantage of what the company calls “the rich pool of talent” in and around the UK capital.

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    PICTURE: NFT unveils Aska eVTOL flying car

    2019-06-12T12:40:29Z

    US start-up Next Future Transportation (NFT) has unveiled a one-sixth-scale model of its electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) flying car, which it hopes will become leading player in the nascent urban air mobility (UAM) market and revolutionise point-to-point transport for many thousands of travellers.

  • Ampaire experimental Cessna 337
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    California's Ampaire demonstrates parallel hybrid Cessna 337

    2019-06-10T12:33:00Z

    A Cessna 337 Skymaster powered partly by an electric motor flew on 6 June from a California airport, demonstrating a prototype propulsion system that manufacturer Ampaire hopes to deploy commercially by 2021.

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    Tamarack files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

    2019-06-07T15:59:18Z

    Emergency airworthiness directives in Europe and the USA related to Tamarack Aerospace's Atlas active winglet system equipping certain Cessna Citation jets have pushed the Idaho-based supplier into seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

  • Vertical Aerospace
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    Honeywell and Vertical Aerospace team up on eVTOL design

    2019-06-05T13:36:12Z

    Honeywell has joined forces with UK electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft developer Vertical Aerospace to address what it calls "the technical, regulatory and business challenges of the emerging urban air mobility (UAM) segment".

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    Alaka'i unveils concept for hydrogen-powered electric aircraft

    2019-06-04T20:26:23Z

    ​Massachusetts aerospace company Alaka'i Technologies has thrown its hat into the urban air mobility ring, announcing development of an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

  • Wheels Up
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    Wheels Up acquires US charter company TMC

    2019-06-04T15:25:26Z

    ​US membership-based private aircraft firm Wheels Up has acquired charter operator Travel Management Company (TMC) in a move designed to broaden its fleet of “high quality” light business jets and enhance the service offering for its 5,000+ members.

  • Fexjet G650
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    Flexjet launches by-the-day-based fractional programme

    2019-06-04T11:16:56Z

    Flexjet, the world's second-largest fractional ownership operator, has introduced a by-the-day-based programme for the Gulfstream G650. The move is designed to give greater flexibility to shareholders of the ultra-long-range business jet and help boost the company's share of the high-end private jet travel market.