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Rotorcraft

Dallas Airmotive Building New Rotorcraft Facility

A center of excellence and test center will be located on the same campus at DFW.
FBOs

Jet Aviation Gains First Caribbean Location

Executive Flight Support at Lynden Pinding International Airport will be rebranded as rebranded as Jet Aviation Bahamas.
FBOs

Central America Gains a New Service Provider

Panama Jet Center is expected to begin operations early this month.
FBOs

Private Aviation Facilities Boosted at Caribbean Destination

Blue Heron Aviation and Provo Jet Center recently opened in Turks and Caicos.
FBOs

Pittsburgh-area FBO To Upgrade

Voyager Jet Center has broken ground on a new FBO and hangar.
FBOs

Signature Adds New England Location

The FBO chain acquired the assets of Wiggins Airways at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport.
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FBOs

New FBO To Assist Northern Ireland’s Jets

Jet Assist Business Centre recently opened at Belfast International.
Airports

Vegas Bets Big on New Runway

McCarran has begun a runway resurfacing project.
Aircraft

Falcon Breaks Ground on Region’s First Completions Center

Today Falcon breaks ground on new DWC completions center, which will open at the end of 2015.
Aircraft

Honeywell Forecast: 9,450 Bizjet Deliveries Worth $280B over Next Decade

In the near term, Honeywell is projecting deliveries of 650 to 675 new jets this year, a single-digit percent increase from 2013.
Regulations and Government

Iraq-Syria Overflight Restrictions Hamper Middle East Growth

Trip support company UAS believes that conflict has hit aviation in the region, though Dubai resilient.
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Charter & Fractional

Vertis, K5 launch 28 East

A new brokerage service has been launched at MEBA 2014 by Vertis Aviation of Switzerland and Germany’s K5 Aviation.
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Aircraft

Hadid widens international flight support network

Dubai-based Hadid is expanding in the Americas and Asia, and has a new alliance with Satcom Direct.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Nothing Wrong With Gold Plating, Says Tanury

U.S. plating company says the price of gold is not the main factor, it is the labor involved. So it gives customers three times the thickness.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Middle East Flyers Love to Stay Connected

OnAir is displaying full suite of inflight connectivity technology at MEBA.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Middle East Flyers Love to Stay Connected

OnAir is displaying full suite of inflight connectivity technology at MEBA.
Aircraft

Airbus shows off ACJ319

Airbus Corporate Jets has had a strong presence in the Middle East, reaching back to the mid-1980s
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Charter & Fractional

TAG Aviation Enhances Engineering, FBOs

TAG Aviation has focused on Asia and its European business while dealing with many Middle East customers, even if it does not have a huge presence here.
Charter & Fractional

Safety Specialist Wyvern Expands Horizons For Nexus

Flight support group Nexus is now established in Middle East, Africa, India and Europe.
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Aircraft

Dassault showcases Falcon 5X cabin mockup

First delivery of the twinjet in the region to take place in 2017
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Aeria’s VIP Completions on Display at New Booth at MEBA 2014

Luxury interior provider also showcases its maintenance and refurbishment capabilities
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Cabin Interior and Electronics

Rockwell Collins Aims to Deliver Reliable IFE

Another Airbus A340 operator has selected the Rockwell Collins Venue inflight entertain/cabin management system.
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Cabin Interior and Electronics

Gogo Adding Text & Talk to SwiftBroadband Satcom

Gogo is expanding its presence in the Middle East with a new office in Dubai and an agent in Abu Dhabi.
Finance, Taxes, Insurance

AfBAA Endorses GJC for Bizjet Financing

Traditional financing sources, such as banks, have not been as active in financing private jets as they had been in previous years.
Charter & Fractional

Arab Wings Launches Charter Venture in Iraq

IWG’s Royal Jordanian Air Academy continues to be an important source of new pilots for the Middle East region
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Airports

London Biggin Hill Airport Launches Helicopter Shuttle

New helicopter service will fly passengers between Biggin Hill and downtown London in six minutes.
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Aircraft

Nextant Notches First Middle East Sale

Nextant will have delivered 50 400XTi aircraft by the end of this year and sees a bright market for the type in the Middle East following its first sale.
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Aircraft

Ukrainian Light Twin Makes MEBA Debut

It’s rare to see a new light twin design reach certification, but the V24 has a choice of three engine types so could appeal to a wide range of users.
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Aircraft

Citation Longitude Will Be Textron’s Ticket to Mideast’s Large-cabin Market

Cessna brought four newly certified aircraft to market in the past year: the Citation Sovereign+, Citation M2, Citation X+ and Citation CJ3+.
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Maintenance and Modifications

EASA Approves Jet Aviation Basel’s Interior for BBJ

Jet Aviation completed the BBJ completion three months ahead of schedule.