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Rotorcraft

Sikorsky, Eurocopter in Race To Exceed 250 Knots

They both deny it, but helicopter manufacturers Sikorsky and Eurocopter have clearly reignited the speed race between their respective semi-compound X2 and
Finance, Taxes, Insurance

President Obama Resumes Attack on Business Aircraft

In a resumption of his campaign against business aviation, President Obama yesterday called for an end to “tax breaks” for corporate jet owners.

Jet Aviation Ramping Up To Meet Demand

Jet Aviation has signed another BBJ2 cabin completion contract with an unidentified customer, even as the Basel, Switzerland-based center gears up to meet

Vision Systems Means Solar Protection

Vision Systems of Brignais, France, has introduced Noctis, what the aircraft cabin interior specialist describes as innovative shading that allows passenge
Aircraft

Bizjet Sales Boost Bombardier

Bombardier reported $4.7 billion in revenue for its first fiscal quarter (which ended April 30), a 9-percent year-over-year increase, thanks in part to a s
Airports

Bizcraft Slots for Olympics Will Go Fast

Business aircraft operators planning to fly to the UK for next summer’s Olympic Games are being encouraged to make early requests for mandatory landing and
Rotorcraft

AgustaWestland Buys Bell’s Stake in BA609 Tiltrotor

AgustaWestland is purchasing full ownership of the BA609 civil tiltrotor program from Bell Helicopter.

Gulfstream Resumes G650 Flight Tests

Gulfstream has resumed test flying its G650, and two of the aircraft are now flying as part of the flight-test program.
Aircraft

Sikorsky Talks Eclipse at Paris Air Show

Sikorsky Aircraft president (and Eclipse 500 owner) Jeffrey Pino shed more light on the company’s investment in Albuquerque, N.M.-based Eclipse Aerospace,
Aircraft

Former Gulfstream Exec Moss Joins Guggenheim Partners

Bryan Moss, the former president and vice chairman of Gulfstream, has joined private investment firm Guggenheim Partners as the chairman of its recently re
Training and Workforce

CAE Toluca To Start Learjet 45 Flight Training

The Bombardier Learjet 45 will be the first business jet model offered at CAE’s new training facility in Toluca, Mexico, near Mexico City.
Sustainability and Environment

Jet Aviation Launches EU-ETS Compliance Service

In response to the European Union’s emissions trading scheme (EU-ETS) regulations, Jet Aviation is offering an EU-ETS compliance service.
Aircraft

SJ30 Rebranded “SyberJet.”

The new owners of the SJ30 light jet program are renaming their company “SyberJet Aircraft,” shuttering the former owner’s Martinsburg, W.Va.

JetNet: Bizav Operators in Buying Mood

JetNet’s results from its quarterly iQ Global Business Aviation Survey, which garnered responses from 506 business aircraft owners and operators in 57 coun

ACJC Offers HD Multimedia Interface

Airbus Corporate Jet Centre (ACJC), a Toulouse-based specialist in ACJ business jet cabin completion, claims to be the first to offer its customers the hig

Lufthansa Technik Gets Contract for China BBJ

Independent completion and refurbishment specialist Lufthansa Technik will be providing cabin outfitting on a new Boeing Business Jet destined for corporat

Lufthansa Offers a Good Night’s Sleep

Lufthansa Technik’s VIP and Executive Jet Solutions Division is now offering what it claims is a new standard in sleep comfort in the form of its Flexidrea

BAE Systems and Design Q Create Elegante

BAE Systems and design consultancy Design Q have unveiled their latest interior concept for the Avro Business Jet, the ABJ Elegante. Designed with “space a

747-8 Outfitting Contract Spurs Amac Growth

After signing a contract to complete a Boeing 747-8, Basel, Switzerland-based MRO and completion and refurbishment center Amac Aerospace has also inked a d
Safety

Air France Flight 447: An Aft-Stick Stall Detailed

When Robert Barnes, president of the International Association of Flight Training Providers, read the initial BEA report on

CTT Systems Wins Contracts for Cair System

In March, CTT Systems of Nykoping, Sweden, received an order for its CTT Cair cabin humidification system to be installed in a Boeing 777 executive aircraf
Safety

Pitch and Power: Lessons from Air France Flight 447

When the French BEA released a partial cockpit voice recorder (CVR) transcript of the Air France Flight 447 accident in late May, pundits wasted no time un

Greenpoint’s Aeroloft Passes Critical Certification Test

Aeroloft, a private rest area above the main deck of the new executive Boeing 747-8, recently passed structural strength and durability testing, according

New Versa-Pure QC Filter Is ‘an Important Breakthrough’

The new Versa-Pure QC is “an important breakthrough,” claims Versa-Pure founder and president Richard Williams. Not only does it meet all EPA standards, sa
Regulations and Government

Bizav Industry Continues To See Increased Activity

The optimism generated by the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (Ebace), coming as it did on the heels of six months of steady improvement

VistaJet Makes a Splash in Paris

Bombardier announced last month at the Paris Air Show that Swiss private aviation provider VistaJet has placed a firm order for 10 copies of the Global 800
ATC

GPS users continue to fight proposed LightSquared network

The ongoing controversy about whether LightSquared’s proposed network of 40,000 powerful ground-based stations transmitting high-speed Internet across the

AIN Blog: Boeing Embraces Spirit of Paris

As I flew home amid the screaming babies in the back of a packed 767 from Charles de Gaulle Airport to New York’s JFK, something struck me as different abo
Maintenance and Modifications

ARSA Chides FAA’s Definition of Duty and Rest Rules

The Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA) has submitted a letter to