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Dutch very light jet operator Bikkair shut down on February 4, saying that it was unable to secure the capital it needed to fund its development.

Cessna is closing its Toledo, Ohio Citation service center at the end of this month “due to reduced customer operations in the region,” according to a spok

European very light jet charter service Blink has launched what it claims to be business aviation’s first frequent-flier program.

Piedmont Aircraft last month launched as an aircraft sales company for pre-owned Beechcraft and Hawker aircraft.

Airbus plans to install satellite-based augmentation systems (SBAS) in its A350XWB to support GPS Cat 1-equivalent 200-foot LPV approaches.

PremiAir has launched a new helicopter transfer service from any of the UK’s main business aviation airports to the London Heliport at Battersea on the sou

Bird Air Services of India has signed an exclusive marketing agreement with Swiss company VistaJet Holding to market VistaJet in the Indian subcontinent (I

Dallas-based Avatas Aerospace, an FAA-approved repair station specializing in the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A, has acquired Hyannis, Mass.-based Prime

Citing changes in the economy, charter management firm FirstFlight has sold its West Coast division less than a year after launching it.

Bombardier Aerospace has missed its January 31 target for converting a letter of interest (LOI) for “up to” 60 C Series airliners from Lufthansa, leaving t

The first nine new pilots to complete NetJets Europe’s ab initio training program joined the company’s flight-crew roster in November and December, followi

An FAA policy memo issued last month highlights the potential safety hazards associated with the rechargeable lithium batteries in electronic flight bag (E

GlobalAir.com last month announced the addition of a winds-aloft forecast to the national weather section of its airport resource center.

Sparta, N.J.-based Brian Foley Associates president Brian Foley foresees a recovery of the business aviation industry in the middle of next year, but not b

Despite expectations that gloomy economic times would reduce attendance at the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), held January 28 to February 1 in Davos, S

The Burbank-Glendale Airport Authority last month delivered to the FAA the first-ever application for airport access restrictions that would apply to Stage

The NTSB wants the FAA to monitor the communication contingency plans of all Gulf of Mexico operators.

Dassault Falcon will be hosting seven regional maintenance and operating seminars this year.

Boston-based charter broker Magellan Jets last month launched its Voyager Program, which entitles members to guaranteed hourly rates on various aircraft; a

Wichita’s United Way of the Plains will be opening a one-stop help center for unemployed residents and area workers to provide a range of services, includi

The Gulf region continues to adopt corporate versions of the BAe 146/Avro RJ regional jetliner, generically dubbed the Avro Business Jet (ABJ).

Russian investment firm Industrial Investors in late January announced its intention to sell all or a portion of AAI Acquisition, the company formed to buy

Turboméca and Dassault Falcon factories located in south- west France suffered only minor damage, if any, during a storm in January that packed winds of 93

Textron has plans to boost its liquidity by at least $1 billion in the first half of this year and, if successful, the company “won’t have to think about s

The Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo kicked off this morning amid a wave of negative signs all pointing to a prolonged economic down

First-day attendance at Heli-Expo’09 broke another record and continued to defy gloomy pre-show predictions.

Heli-Expo is normally a venue for major announcements, but in an ironic twist, one of Sikorsky Aircraft’s announcements on Monday was that it will be makin

A group of industry representatives from helicopter OEMs, training companies and operators is close to submitting to the International Civil Aviation Organ

The president of helicopter supply company Sunrise Helicopter has filed a petition to revise a 2008 NTSB report that held the company partially responsible

Executives at two of the world’s largest helicopter makers insisted at Heli-Expo that the industry can continue to flourish even in the face of a severe ec