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Dassault Reports Record Deliveries, Plummeting Sales
March 18, 2010
Dassault Aviation yesterday reported contrasting results for last year, with a negative net order tally of -163 Falcon business jets, but a record 77 Falcon deliveries. During a press conference held at the company’s headquarters near Paris yesterday morning, Dassault chairman and CEO Charles Edelstenne said the negative order number includes 65...
moreCessna V-p: We Must Continue Bizav Evangelism
March 11, 2010
Cessna vice president of corporate communication Robert Stangarone, on Tuesday, at the British Business and General Aviation Association (BBGA) annual conference stressed the need for the industry to continue communicating the value and benefits of business aviation. “Everyone in our industry should consider himself [an] ambassador,” he said. “Business...
moreReport Puts Pre-owned Bizjet Market Under Microscope
March 04, 2010
Pre-owned business jet prices are down 40 percent from the heights of 2008 and are now on average 15 percent below “market value,” AircraftPost president Dennis Rousseau said in a recently released white paper. Despite the turbulent economy and some difficulty in finding aircraft financing, “Business jets are selling,” he said. “In the medium and long-range...
moreD.C. Federal District Court Removes the BARR
March 02, 2010
A federal judge for the District of Columbia has ruled that aircraft tail numbers submitted for blockage under NBAA’s Block Aircraft Registration Request (BARR) program must be made available in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). But the ruling does not permit the disclosure of real-time flight data, historical data or...
moreFoley: India a Growing but Low-volume Bizav Market
March 02, 2010
On the eve of the India Aviation Conference on Civil Aviation, business aviation market advisor Brian Foley said business jet deliveries in India are healthier than in most Western countries but the volume isn’t on par with mature markets. However, the president of Brian Foley Associates noted that India’s growing share of business jet deliveries has...
moreSecond Gulfstream G650 Enters Flight-test Program
March 02, 2010
The second Gulfstream G650–known as test article two, or T2 for short–completed its maiden flight from Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport in Savannah, Ga., at 12:50 p.m. last Thursday. T2 was piloted by senior Gulfstream experimental test pilots Gary Freeman and Scott Buethe, who took the second wide-cabin, ultra-long-range G650 on a two-hour and 33...
moreEmbraer Legacy 450 and 500 Programs Making Headway
March 01, 2010
Embraer said production of the Legacy 500’s first parts has begun at suppliers’ facilities. The nose and main landing-gear forgings arrived at Heroux-Devtek in Canada and are now machined. Meggitt performed the first forgings for the wheels and brakes, while Sonaca began the first trials for stretching the rear fuselage panels at its facilities in...
moreIndustry sees signs of slow recovery
March 01, 2010
There have been signs lately that the business aviation industry is experiencing a recovery. However, there have also been signs that a true recovery might fall more in the category of wishful thinking.Early last month business aviation was buoyed by news that the Fiscal Year 2011 federal budget proposal did not include user fees that would have been a most...
moreTextron financials show Cessna, Bell hitting bottom
March 01, 2010
In its fourth-quarter and year-end report for 2008, Textron– parent company of Cessna Aircraft and Bell Helicopter–forecast the economy would “continue to… result in lower volumes at Cessna.” On January 21 this year, the company announced its fourth-quarter 2009 and end-of-year numbers and it appears the earlier report took an optimistic view of the future....
moreBombardier deliveries and orders down
March 01, 2010
Blaming “the global economic crisis that began in 2008,” Bombardier Aerospace released numbers for its fiscal year 2009/10 (ending January 31) showing a substantial drop in deliveries and negative net orders for business jets.In FY2009/10, Bombardier delivered 176 business jets, compared with 235 in the previous fiscal year, in line with a projected...
moreFAA: Bizjet Traffic Down 19.6 Percent in ’09
March 01, 2010
The FAA’s January 2010 Business Jet Report shows total business jet operations worldwide down 19.6 percent last year compared with 2008. Total operations climbed from nearly four million per year in 2001 to a peak of more than 4.8 million in 2007, then dropped to less than 4.3 million in 2008 and 3.5 million last year. In the U.S., the top five destinations...
moreOnline System Logs Performance Metrics
March 01, 2010
AircraftLogs.com announced reporting enhancements that capture performance metrics for flight departments. The company’s online system can track three broad categories of non-financial metrics–aircraft utilization, passenger data and strategic alignment. With these metrics, flight departments can better understand the utilization of the corporate aircraft...
moreCirrus certification date uncertain as tests proceed
March 01, 2010
Despite the difficulties it has faced in obtaining development funding for its SF50 Vision jet single, Minn.-based Cirrus Aircraft still describes its personal jet program as its “absolute top priority.” During a live Web cast last month company president and CEO Brent Wouters told order holders that while he didn’t know when the $1.72 million aircraft...
moreCare ramps up quickly for disaster-relief efforts in Haiti
March 01, 2010
Soon after the magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, killing more than 200,000 people and displacing more than a million more, relief began arriving by air. Toussaint L’Ouverture International Airport–the main gateway to the island nation’s ruined capital, Port-au-Prince–re-opened two days later as humanitarian flights began streaming in....
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