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Bob Keel, 53, is chief pilot and director of operations for Flying High Aviation in Dallas.

If you get the feeling you’re just a number when it comes to getting your medical, you may be interested to know that the FAA issues 453,000 airman medical

It became apparent late last year that the management team led by chairman and CEO Kenn Ricci would be unable to raise the investment capital needed to

After changing hands three times in fairly quick succession over the past decade, the UK’s PremiAir Aircraft Engineering appears to be settling down and re

Looking at the glass as half full, Latin American Aeronautical Association founder and president Ernesto Rois-Mendez points to the number of attendees and

House and Senate staff members continued working last month to resolve differences in the two separate versions of FAA reauthorization legislation passed b

Dassault has bucked the trend among business jet manufacturers of announcing massive job cuts, furloughs or temporary factory closures since the beginning

The UK’s Oxford Airport has been approved to increase its licensed runway length by 10 percent to 4,327 feet.

If the drop in the number of attendees at last year’s annual NBAA Flight Attendant Conference was a result of economic uncertainty, then perhaps the increa

If you are looking to buy a business jet whose manufacturer provides the highest level of after-sales product support, then you would purchase one of Gulfs

In aviation’s early days, long-distance HF communications used wire antennas trailing behind the aircraft.

Embraer’s Legacy is an impressive corporate version of the company’s venerable ERJ-135/145

What is fractional ownership in Europe? Judging by the way the concept has morphed since it started to appear in the continent during the second half of th

The only really successful helicopter fractional operator is not in the U.S.

Increasing size provides economies of scale for any business, but for fractional operators attaining “critical mass” in terms of fleet size and flight crew

“What’s the difference between fractional helicopter operations and fractional business jet operations?” asked one fractional sales professional rhetorical

As fractional ownership programs grew in size, complexity and number, considerable controversy within the aviation community arose as to their appropriate

At first glance, the fractional industry, like the alien menace in a sci-fi thriller, appears to be morphing into a menagerie of hybrids.

The concept of fractional ownership in the transportation industry is nearly half a millennium old.

Executive Jet Aviation owner and CEO Richard Santulli brought the fractional-ownership concept to the business aviation community in the mid-1980s.

Gulfstream, which has been engaged in a dispute with the FAA over whether its new Gulfstream 550 could be certified with the traditional four elliptical wi

The decades that preceded the 1970s were propelled by a lust for technological progress measured in speed, altitude and range.

The number of people killed in turbine business airplane accidents across all segments increased in the first half of this year compared with the first six

Piper announced on July 21 that American Capital Strategies, a minority (about 2 percent) shareholder in the company since 1998, has acquired 94 percent of

Dassault is working quietly on the design for what could become a supersonic business jet (SSBJ).

The Republican-led House appropriations subcommittee on transportation, treasury and independent agencies last month approved a new transportation spending

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The number-two SJ30-2 flight-test aircraft (S/N 003) took off on July 21 from Sino Swearingen’s headquarters at San Antonio Airport.

The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale and National Aeronautic Association have certified five speed records set by a Piaggio Avanti.

According to Aviation Research Group/US (ARG/US) of Cincinnati, the great majority of fractional aircraft share owners are satisfied with their program and