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The eNfusion cabin network accelerator from EMS Satcom appears to be gaining a following.

At the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition in May, Rockwell Collins announced completion of AirCell’s ST 3100 Iridium satellite communicatio

Two years ago at this time, Jim Renfro, president and owner of Highlands Aviation at Avon Park, Fla., said he was spending most of his time on the road, “d

Houston-based handling agent Universal Weather & Aviation has purchased Cornerstone Logic, creator of software package FBO Manager.

Dassault said it received orders for 52 Falcons in the first six months of this year, compared with 62 for the whole of last year.

“It caught my eye becauseit was…different,” said Brad Brooks, a customer service agent.

Former Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta is the recipient of the 2006 Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy.

A fix has been ordered to resolve the five-second trap of certain Honeywell mode-S transponders.

Ship it AOG, a business aircraft parts distributor, has relocated to a larger facility at Dallas Addison Airport.

SATS, the small aircraft transportation system research program funded jointly by industry and government, concludes later this year, five years after it s

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First it was NetJets’ pilots who picketed and finally got a new labor contract; now it’s the fractional’s mechanics and other support personnel who last mo

A group of current and former airline pilots rallied on Capitol Hill in late May to protest the 45-year-old FAA regulation that forces Part 121 pilots to l

Bombardier plans to break ground this month for a 100,000-sq-foot addition to its service center at Love Field in Dallas to accommodate the OEM’s Challenge

New York’s state Senate passed a bill making it a crime to fly an aircraft with a blood alcohol content of .04 or above, similar to laws covering drunk dri

The crash landing of the Merlin twin turboprop at Teterboro Airport, N.J., on May 31 followed a flight in which the pilot had aborted his first takeoff at

Pratt & Whitney Canada and Cessna announced at the Paris Air Show PowerAdvantage Plus (PA+), an expanded pay-by-the-hour maintenance program for P&

Embraer’s numbering system for its existing models suggests current gaps in the line, and company chairman Mauricio Botelho, speaking in Manhattan last mon

FlightSafety International is introducing a hypoxia awareness course at its learning centers.

Embraer, a recent but aggressive entrant in business aviation, predicts that manufacturers will sell 9,680 new business jets during the next 10 years, repr

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New data by UK ATC provider NATS shows that business jets are more likely than others to be involved in certain types of safety incident.

The five-member board of directors of Air Security International (ASI) has fired Issy Boim after 15 years as president of the Dallas-based firm he founded.

Hartmut Mehdorn, chairman of German railway group Deutsche Bahn, has proposed that Berlin’s downtown Tempelhof Airport be redeveloped as a dedicated busine

The original BBJ3, which was proposed in early 2000, was going to be a 7,000-nm aircraft based on the 757-200 fuselage and 757-300 wing.

With Transportation Department Inspector General Kenneth Mead predicting the busiest summer travel season in six years, the Senate aviation subcommittee ha

On September 1 Boeing’s new 737-900ER, the platform for the new BBJ3, made its maiden flight.

GE Honda Aero Engines recently completed component and engine core tests to validate several performance enhancements for its in-development 1,700-pound-th

“Decision Guide to Private Jet Travel” is a new 50-page study on how to select a business aircraft provider.

In its latest update, issued last month, the NTSB said the number of people killed in all aviation accidents last year dropped to 616 from 652 in 2004.