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Avion Pacific sold 16 helicopters last year and plans to add services to continue growing.

Recent delivery to Indonesian Government is company’s 15th completion.

Easing regulations and further opening of the airspace is helping helicopter sales grow by an average of 20 percent per year in China.

The flight support company’s new operation in Manila will provide support to clients throughout the Philippines.

The Japanese police are replacing ageing Bell 412s with the AgustaWestland AW139.

Satcom1 announced activation of its AvioIP advanced router software on an Emteq eConnect airborne router installed on a Bombardier Global Express.

Company plans to open Shanghai office this year.

The milestone trijet entered final assembly earlier this year and will fly to the Falcon completion center in Little Rock, Arkansas, in June.

ABACE 2014 has attracted a record-breaking 187 exhibitors and 38 static-display aircraft.

A meeting at ABACE 2014 outlined how new Core Principles for Business Aviation could boost business aviation prospects in the Asia Pacific region.

“It was just like flying in the U.S.,” Chelsea Welch said, “except that altitude is given in meters, but that wasn’t too hard to figure out.”

Satcom Direct is preparing for the 2015 launch of Inmarsat’s GX Aviation high-speed satcom system.

Acquisition of, and partnerships with, Western aircraft manufacturers ease the nation’s entry into the aviation market.

Embraer delivered 20 business jets during the first three months of 2014.

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Pilatus brought its PC-12 painted in Sauber F1 race team colors to ABACE, a few days before this weekend’s Grand Prix in Shanghai.

Business aviation aficionados will convene again in Geneva in May.

The EC135 P2+ simulator has received level-C certification from the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB).

Vulcanair delivered the first P68 Observer 2 in China on March 17, just 12 days after the high-wing piston twin received CAAC approval.

China’s preference for larger, longer-range business jets will continue, according to market analyst Brian Foley.

Avion Pacific sold 16 helicopters last year and plans to add new services to continue growing.

Expansion mirrors growing economic ties between the two fastest growing business jet markets, China and Africa.

Metrojet will continue its philosophy of “disciplined growth, being the best, not necessarily the biggest.”

Freesky Aviation, which also offers aircraft charter and management services, introduced the first Avanti II twin turboprop to China in 2012.

Etihad experienced its strongest ever first quarter, as it awaits word on its proposed stake for Alitalia.

The system will be “connected and operating” at all 230 ATC facilities by 2019.

Deal covers 60 super-midsize and large-cabin Gulfstreams and 10 Bombardier Challenger 350s.

China had 189 general aviation firms at the end of last year, a 41-percent increase over 2012, while the fleet increased 23.4 percent to 1,654 aircraft.

Nextant Aerospace is currently developing the G90XT, a modified King Air 90 twin turboprop with new GE H80 engines and Garmin G1000 avionics.