Gulfstream is offering Safe Flight Instrument's Enhanced AutoPower system as an option on the G200 following US supplemental type certification of the automatic throttle on the super mid-size business jet. The system is also offered for retrofit on G200s in service. Israel Aircraft Industries, meanwhile, plans to fly the 100th G200 on 11 July, leading to customer delivery this year after completion in the USA.
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.
