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A new executive aircraft handling operation was launched last month at the London-area Royal Air Force Northolt base (EGWU).

Someone I used to know–a father and general aviation pilot–questioned why he needed life insurance, because, quote, “I won’t be around to enjoy it.” He cou

Starting in the first quarter of next year Bombardier will begin installing Amsafe’s aviation inflatable restraint (AAIR) systems in the bulkhead row of pa

A Learjet 25D (N333CG) that crashed on approach to Salina, Kan., after losing elevator control on June 12, was involved in a test flight in connectio

New operators of Learjets now receive, at no cost, an initial subscription to MedLink aviation medical-support services from Phoenix-based MedAire.

The FAA is attributing better planning between major airlines and ATC for reducing delays nearly 12 percent since the implementation of Free Flight Phase 1

Yuma (Ariz.) International Airport will soon have a new FBO competing for business.

Air Security International has added a “Women’s Issues” section to its subscription-based, password-protected World Watch On-Line (www.airsecurity.com).

The FAA’s Airport/Facility Directory now includes a new section that contains taxi diagram charts for selected FAR Part 139 airports.

Operators have until August 13 to comment on the FAA’s proposed long-term solutions to the serious congestion and delay problems at New York La Guard

Work has begun on TAG Aviation’s major redevelopment of Britain’s Farnborough airfield as a dedicated business aviation airport.

Eurocontrol has dropped plans to reform its formula for en route charges for air traffic control services.

Czech bankruptcy administrator Zlatava Davidova has awarded the assets of bankrupt Let Kunovice to Czech lightplane manufacturer Moravan Otrokovice, ostens

Reliance Aerotech, a business jet and regional airliner maintenance facility in Myrtle Beach, S.C., recently acquired the 180,000-sq-ft Flight Internationa

The so-called “Hoover Law” has proved to be ineffective, according to the Lawyer Pilots Bar Association (LPBA).

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Innovative Solutions & Support (IS&S) received an STC for installation of a dual digital air data computer (DADC) system on Boeing 727-100s and -20

Revisions to aircraft and airport security rules–FAR Parts 107, 108 and 139–increase the number of aircraft operators that must have security programs to i

Amendments to the DOT’s rules that require flight crew, instructors, mechanics and others involved in the operation and maintenance of commercial aircraft

With the final report by a joint Peruvian-U.S.

Several new services and alliances have been added to Flightneeds.com, a Web site providing weather data, FBO information, airport descriptions, charter gu

Despite a slowing economy that is diminishing the rate of orders for some business jet manufacturers, delivery rates for many other manufacturers are holdi

With the exception of the Falcon 900C, deliveries in the first half of this year of the other three Falcon models increased significantly over the same per

French aerospace firms Dassault Aviation and Onera have signed an agreement to work on research and development that rekindle Dassault’s interest in possib

Bombardier plans to increase the maximum takeoff weight of the Learjet 45 by at least 800 lb, bringing the mtow to 21,300 lb.

A push to entice corporate operators into considering pre-owned, non-airline derivatives of the Saab 340A and 340B, which are no longer in production, has

Eurocontrol’s provisional council has given the go-ahead for the implementation of reduced vertical separation minimums (RVSM) in Europe starting next Janu

Business aviation tried to avoid getting caught in the crossfire of rhetoric at the July 16 House aviation subcommittee hearings on air-traffic congestion

Deliveries of new Gulfstream IV-SPs and GVs in the first half of this year kept pace with the same period last year, although sales volume for the second q

The Corporate Angel Network recognized Corning for having flown a record number of flights carrying cancer patients to treatment centers aboard its Fairchi