Nigel Moll

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AIN Blog: Wanted: Birdbrains

Innate skills elude some allegedly trained pilots.
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AIN Blog: AirTran Ordered To Rehire Whistleblower Pilot

AirTran rehired a whistleblower pilot
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Cessna Citation Ten Makes Maiden Flight

Citation Ten makes maiden flight.
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AIN Blog: Brace for More Banker Backlash

Buckle up and fly clean because the business jet is still a big fat whipping boy.
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New Citations Tackle Embraer Threat

Cessna came out swinging against the Embraer challenge in late September and at the NBAA Convention last month, unveiling two additional Citations
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Aircraft

Gulfstream Weathering Stormy Skies

 Class warfare is much in the headlines of late, and there’s a sort of parallel in business aviation.
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Aircraft

Cessna Changes Its Latitude with New Midsize Bizjet

Cessna launches Citation Latitude, a clean-sheet midsize jet.
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Aircraft

Citation Latitude Busts Out of Cessna Midsize Mold

At NBAA 2011 in Las Vegas this morning, Cessna took the wraps off a long-overdue enlargement of its midsize cabin in an addition to the Citation line call
Citation Latitude

Murdoch BBJ Listed for Sale: ‘Make Offer’

News Corp./News America chief Rupert Murdoch’s Boeing Business Jet was listed for sale on September 1, coincidentally the publication date
Engines

Product Support Survey 2011 Part 3: Engines

Williams once again takes the top spot among turbofan manufacturers.
Aircraft

New Cessna Citation M2 Relights CJ1+ Torch

Cessna announced a new twinjet derivative yesterday to serve as a step-up for Mustang owners or as a higher entry-level Citation between the Mustang and CJ
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AIN Blog: Gambling Away a Heritage

The publicly known facts are scarce at this stage, but the in-flight structural failure of a Cessna Corvalis composite high-performance piston single in th
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AIN Blog: Trials by Mother Nature

NBAA put out a press release yesterday noting that there are “only 40 days left until NBAA 2011.” That's fitting, with Hurricane Irene’s liquid legacy thre
Charter & Fractional

Flexjet Launches Learjet 85 Frax Program

Flexjet, Bombardier’s Texas-based fractional ownership operation, launched a Learjet 85 program.
Safety

9/11 Report: Aviation Ten Years Later

For the complete report:
AIN_2011_TenYearsLater.pd

Charter & Fractional

Flexjet Launches Learjet 85 Frax Program

Flexjet, Bombardier’s Texas-based fractional ownership program, launched a Learjet 85 program yesterday.
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Burt Rutan: The Measure of His Success

How does one measure the success of an airplane designer? Was John Thorp a success because he designed, among many others, the airplane (his T-16 of the m

EBAA Hires New CEO, Humphries To Remain as President

The European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) appointed an airline lobbyist as its new leader yesterday.

AIN Blog: The Final Shuttle Mission Looks Down on a Vastly Changed World Beneath

At 11:29 this morning, the final space shuttle flight got under way as Atlantis rose from the launch pad on a column of fire from the Kennedy Space

NBAA Reacts Swiftly to WSJ Coverage

NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen’s letter to The Wall Street Journal: “Your front-page story detailing the movements of ‘general aviation’ airplanes

WSJ declares war on bizav

If there remained any doubt after its February 14 piece on the alleged excesses of

Paris 2011: New Grounds Underway for ILA Berlin 2012

The ILA Berlin Air Show, scheduled for September 11-16 next year, will be located “directly next door to Berlin Brandenburg Willy Brandt, the capital’s fu

Record Turnout on Sweltering Ramp for HPN Forum

While professing satisfaction with what turned out to be record participation at NBAA’s business aviation regional forum at Westchester County Airport yest
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AIN Blog: Brendan Gallagher’s Influence on Aerospace

Brendan Gallagher died last Sunday morning at his home in London, just days after participating in press trips to Geneva, Belfast and Turkey with his