Stephen Pope

Fractional giant NetJets reaffirmed its strong commitment to the Cessna brand by inking a massive deal with Textron Aviation for options to purchase up to 175 super-midsize Cessna Citation Longitude jets and up to 150 large-cabin Cessna Citation Hemisphere aircraft. If all options are exercised, the deal would be one of the largest in business […]

After tentative predictions in recent years that the business jet market was showing signs of turning the corner after a prolonged slump, Honeywell says it’s much more confident in its latest business aviation market forecast that “strong” growth is just around the corner, and, barring unforeseen events, will continue for the next several years. Honeywell’s […]

The weather is looking great for this year’s Wings & Wheels show at Essex County Airport, which for the second year in a row is being hosted at the northern New Jersey airport by the New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum and sponsored by Flying magazine. The show October 6 and 7 will […]

The National Aviation Hall of Fame welcomed its newest enshrinees at a glittering gala dinner in Washington, D.C., on Friday, September 29, that was attended by more than 800 well-wishers from the aerospace industry. This year’s class of honorees included four accomplished aviators with deep roots in military aviation and the space program. Colonel R. […]

Flying once again is sponsoring the New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame’s “Salute to Veterans” Wings & Wheels show at Essex County Airport in Northern New Jersey, which will be held this year on Saturday October 6 and Sunday October 7. The show will include numerous historic aircraft, including the rare Douglas C-54 “Spirit of […]

The 2018 class of inductees into the National Aviation Hall of Fame will participate in an event unlike ever before as the ceremony comes to the architecturally stunning National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., on September 28. Fittingly considering the close proximity of the enshrinement to NASA headquarters and the Pentagon, this year’s class of […]

Garmin has acquired Connecticut-based flight-planning, scheduling and trip-support services company Fltplan.com, a company many pilots rely on for a decidedly self-serving reason: Aviation charts and many features in the FltPlan Go app and Fltplan.com website are free while other app developers charge subscription fees. Garmin says that won’t change. FltPlan has risen to become one […]

The European Commission is warning that airlines in Europe will not be ready for the EU’s ADS-B compliance date of June 7, 2020, but reiterated recently that the deadline will not change. “The final implementation dates…stand and must be met,” wrote Henrik Hololei, the EC director general for the mobility and transport directorate, in a […]

There’s never been a better time for career switchers to land a job in aviation than right now. Nobody knows that better perhaps than Mark Baker, the president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. That’s because Baker is a career switcher himself, having left the retail world to pursue his passion as the head […]

It was a record week for EAA as 601,000 people attended AirVenture 2018 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, according to the association. EAA was ecstatic to report this year’s other numbers. More than 10,000 aircraft arrived at Wittman Regional Airport and other airports in the region, including nearly 3,000 show planes. Attendance was up about 2 percent […]