All Business Jets articles – Page 95

  • News

    Jet Aviation boosts credentials with Avjet purchase

    2016-03-15T20:38:41Z

    Jet Aviation is hoping to cement its position as one of the largest providers of charter and management services in the USA, with its acquisition of Los Angeles, California-based Avjet.

  • Falcon 7x
    News

    Falcon 7X pilot's military training credited for rapid aircraft recovery

    2016-03-15T14:20:58Z

    French investigators have revealed the first officer of a Dassault Falcon 7X used an escape technique picked up from bombing exercises to regain control of the jet during a trim runaway event on 24 May 2011, which later resulted in the temporary, worldwide grounding of the long-range trijet fleet.

  • Loch Lomond Seaplanes cessna
    News

    Loch Lomond Seaplanes poised to make a splash in England

    2016-03-15T12:23:22Z

    Scottish firm Loch Lomond Seaplanes, the UK's only amphibious air taxi provider, is expanding into the English market through a partnership with private resort, Osea Island.

  • News

    PICTURES: Iron Maiden 747-400 badly damaged in tug collision

    2016-03-12T18:51:00Z

    ​Rock band Iron Maiden’s newly-customised Boeing 747-400 has been extensively damaged in a ground-towing accident in Santiago that injured two tractor operators.

  • GI Pilatus PC-12
    News

    GI prepares Gulf's first single-engined turboprop charter service

    2016-03-10T10:08:58Z

    Abu Dhabi start-up GI Aviation is hoping to launch the Gulf’s first single-engined turboprop-based air taxi operation this year, to fulfil what it calls "a growing need for affordable regional charter services of four hours or less”.

  • News

    Perlan 2 glider starts cabin pressurisation tests

    2016-03-09T21:13:57Z

    ​Flight testing has started on the unique cabin pressurization system for the Airbus-sponsored Perlan II, an experimental glider aiming to set the winged-aircraft altitude record with a flight to 90,000ft later this year.

  • Challenger 650
    News

    Bombardier Challenger 650 clinches European validation

    2016-03-09T17:14:11Z

    Bombardier has secured European certification for the Challenger 650 business jet, paving the way for deliveries of the large-cabin twin to begin on the continent.

  • M600
    News

    Piper ponders new products

    2016-03-09T15:41:04Z

    Piper Aircraft is exploring a range of new products to complement its existing family of propeller-driven aircraft.

  • P.1HH Hammerhead UAV - Piaggio
    News

    UAE announced as first export customer for Hammerhead UAV

    2016-03-09T15:14:06Z

    Piaggio Aero has secured the first export order for its P.1HH Hammerhead unmanned air vehicle, following the United Arab Emirates’ decision to acquire eight of the type.

  • Diamonds in Australia
    News

    Diamond delivers eight piston-singles to Australian International Aviation College

    2016-03-09T12:13:27Z

    Diamond Aircraft has delivered eight piston-engined aircraft to the Australian International Aviation College (AIAC). The shipment of two DA42-VI twins and six examples of the DA40 NG single – making its Australian debut – joins the New South Wales-based training academy's fleet of older generation DA20-C1s and DA40 CS'.

  • Seeker
    News

    Seeker observation aircraft to be built in the US by Erickson

    2016-03-09T11:51:35Z

    Observation platform developer Seeker Aircraft will establish a production line in the USA for its SB7L piston-single to accommodate growing international demand for the two-seat, metal type.

  • Edgley Optica
    News

    International bidders vie for Edgley Optica

    2016-03-08T16:34:11Z

    ​John Edgley, owner and designer of the Optica observation aircraft, is holding discussions with potential buyers for the programme from China, the USA and the UK. Each is bidding to purchase the 40-year-old piston-single and relaunch manufacturing, more than two decades after its production was halted.

  • News

    INTERVIEW Sarah Yates - Pilot and biologist for the US Fish and Wildlife Service

    2016-03-07T23:00:00Z

    ​Sarah Yates is a wildlife biologist and pilot of a Cessna 206 on amphibious floats for the US Fish and Wildlife Service division of migratory bird management in Maine, where she was born and raised.

  • Piper M600 TP
    News

    Piper prepares M600 for third quarter service entry

    2016-03-02T17:02:00Z

    Service entry of Piper Aircraft’s M600 single-engined turboprop has been pushed back to the third quarter of this year, due to “challenges” with the certification process.

  • Xti Trifan
    News

    XTi extends TriFan 600 funding window

    2016-03-02T13:14:57Z

    US start-up XTi Aircraft has extended by a month the window for crowdfunding stakeholders to invest in its TriFan 600 vertical take-off and landing business aircraft, and says it will establish an over-the-counter secondary market to allow current and future shareholders to buy and sell XTi shares on the open ...

  • GII Silvercrest
    News

    Silvercrest delay hits Safran's 2015 operating profit

    2016-03-01T17:08:51Z

    Delays in developing the Snecma Silvercrest engine set to power Dassault’s Falcon 5X business jet cost Safran a one-off €654 million ($720 million) charge last year, resulting in a 12% drop in operating profit for the French company, to €1.7 billion.

  • Spectrum S-40
    News

    Spectrum to build S-40 business jet in Mexico

    2016-03-01T12:58:53Z

    US aircraft developer Spectrum Aeronautical is hoping to secure funding by the end of June to launch production of its Freedom S-40 business jet, and has selected Mexicali in Baja, California – 2km south of the US/Mexican border – as the manufacturing and flight test centre for the midsize type.

  • Quest Kodiak
    News

    European approval for single-engined IMC operations draws closer

    2016-03-01T12:53:48Z

    Opposition to pan-European commercial single-engined turbine operations under instrument meteorological conditions (SET-IMC) seems to be abating as rulemaking proposals increasingly satisfy states that have resisted it. Italy is now the only state that appears to still have reservations, while previous sceptics France, Germany and the UK seem happy with draft ...

  • Interview

    INTERVIEW: David Bickerton -Director with McLarens Aviation in Abu Dhabi

    2016-03-01T11:08:00Z

    ​David Bickerton is regional director, Middle East and Africa, for McLarens Aviation. He’s based in Abu Dhabi, providing consultancy services in incident investigation mainly on behalf of insurers

  • QueSST x-plane
    News

    NASA selects Lockheed Martin to design supersonic X-plane

    2016-03-01T00:01:59Z

    NASA has selected Lockheed Martin to design a half-scale supersonic X-plane with boom-suppression technology in an effort to lift the international ban on flying faster than Mach 1.0 overland.