The first Bombardier Global 5000 super-large business jet has entered service, after delivery to a corporate operator based in the Middle East. To support entry into service, a Bombardier team will be based with the operator, which plans to use the aircraft on missions throughout Asia and Europe. As of March, nine green Global 5000s had been delivered for completion.
Source: Flight International
Nigeria’s president has travelled to France on an Airbus A330-200 business jet which the country has acquired to upgrade its government transport. President Bola Tinubu flew from Abuja to Nice on 19 August on board the aircraft. The A330 – a Rolls-Royce Trent 700-powered airframe, registered 5N-FGA – was originally ...
Investigators have determined that a non-rated pilot inadvertently activated the lift dump on a Beechcraft Premier I business jet during final approach to Subang, causing it to lose height and crash short of the runway. None of the six passengers and two pilots survived. Two motorists were also killed when ...
US firm Sierra Nevada (SNC) has been awarded a $170 million contract to deliver two Rapcon-X surveillance aircraft to the Finnish Border Guard.
