Jet Support Services and Adam Aircraft have entered into an agreement for JSSI
to provide Tip-to-Tail hourly maintenance cost guarantee programs developed exclusively for the new Adam A500 piston twin and A700 AdamJet. The program marks JSSI’s entry into the VLJ market and the first hourly maintenance program to include complete airframe and engine coverage for a piston twin.
Very light jets
September 15, 2006 - 9:47am
September 15, 2006 - 6:55am
Tony Fox, the 84-year-old entrepreneur credited by those with long memories as being the father of the very light jet, last month sold the 1970s-era Foxjet design to start-up Millennium Aerospace of California. Fox still manages a multimillion-dollar business conglomerate and holds 96 patents.
September 15, 2006 - 6:49am
As the industry prepares for very light jets (VLJs) to live up to their billing to transform personal transportation, air-taxi and charter operations, members of the Aviation Insurance Association recently gathered for their annual conference in Grapevine, Texas, to consider risk exposure implications and market opportunities if the VLJ phenomenon turns its promoters’ rosiest visions into reality.
September 14, 2006 - 11:34am
The FAA released a draft policy that would offer a streamlined way for manufacturers of Part 23 multi-engine turbine airplanes–including very light jets–to use a 10-minute standard for one-engine inoperative conditions. The standard doubles the time during which the remaining engine can be operated at rated takeoff thrust. Manufacturers have to apply for the 10-minute capability, and each engine and airplane model needs separate approval.
September 14, 2006 - 11:10am
Antwerp, Belgium-based Flying Group has become a major business aviation player in France, with new sites at Cannes and at Paris Le Bourget. The recent opening of Flying Group’s state-of-the-art terminal at the French capital’s dedicated business aviation airport is symbolic of the fast-growing company’s ambitions in France.
September 14, 2006 - 10:13am
HighTech Finishing announced at the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition that last year was its best 12 months since 2001. The Houston company, which supplies decorative plating for aircraft fittings, attributes the strong 2005 performance to demand for new aircraft as well as increased activity in interior refurbishment.
September 14, 2006 - 10:01am
The very light jets (VLJs) are coming. Smaller than what have thus far been regarded as entry-level business jets, most VLJs offer a passenger capacity of about six, a range of a little more than 1,000 nm, cruise speed of about 350 knots, and price tags ranging from about $1.3 million to a shade more than $2.25 million.
September 14, 2006 - 7:57am
Very light jet air-taxi hopeful Pogo will likely “not launch operations before 2009,” according to company CEO and former American Airlines boss Robert Crandall. Initially, Pogo was planning to get a VLJ operation off the ground this year with Adam A700s.
September 14, 2006 - 6:49am
The HondaJet will make an encore appearance at this month’s EAA AirVenture, July 24 to 30 in Oshkosh, Wis. Last year, the very light jet spent just a few hours at AirVenture, but this time Honda will display the jet for the duration of the show. The company has still not announced whether it will enter the VLJ market with the HondaJet.
September 14, 2006 - 6:05am
As anticipation builds over the pending certification of the first very light jet, the Eclipse 500, “There’s a new sense of legitimacy for the idea of personalized air mobility in the form of per-seat fleet operations [using VLJs],” according to NASA Langley advance planning office director Bruce Holmes. “After all, mobility is freedom, and the big picture of the VLJ is individualized air travel.”
