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The Citation Special Olympics Airlift (CSOA) will launch next summer for the seventh time. For 2014, the jets will converge on New Jersey’s Trenton-Mercer County Airport (KTTN), arriving ahead of the games that begin on June 14 and departing the next week after the closing ceremonies on June 21. At this week’s National Business Aviation […]

Actor Harrison Ford, an enthusiastic pilot and longtime advocate for general aviation, will receive this year’s Al Ueltschi Humanitarian Award at the opening general session of NBAA’s Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition in Las Vegas. An outspoken champion for general aviation, Ford has testified before Congress and flown humanitarian aid missions in the aircraft he […]

You may recall a story from last year where a 16-year-old student pilot soloed three different types of aircraft on his birthday. Yesterday, for his 17th birthday, Drew Gryder decided to up the ante. Gryder managed to complete the checkrides for his single- and multi-engine private ratings and second-in-command type ratings for the Douglas DC-3 […]

No wonder the White House believes it’s winning the 10-day-old standoff with Republicans over the government shutdown. With the power he has American businesses, including much of the aviation industry, the president holds what might be an unbeatable hand. If Republicans didn’t know it before, they do now. With one phone call to Transportation Secretary […]

Kenny Dichter, the former vice chairman of NetJets and creator of the jet card concept as founder of Marquis Jet, is pouring his creative energy into a new endeavor anchored around the workhorse Beechcraft King Air 350i. Dichter’s new company, Wheels Up, has placed an order for 105 of the versatile twin turboprops and full […]

A series of near misses investigated by the NTSB has prompted the agency’s chairman Deborah Hersman to send a safety recommendation letter to FAA Administrator Michael Huerta urging the FAA to revise air traffic control procedures. The letter addresses separation standards provided by ATC at airports with multiple runways, where operations allow for simultaneous takeoffs […]

The Pilatus PC-12 is not the only one of its kind. There are a few other pressurized singles as well as other rugged turboprop singles. And there are also additional nine-passenger near-midsize cabin transportation airplanes. Here is a quick look at some of them up against the PC-12 NG. ** TBM 850** The Daher-Socata TBM […]

“This is what flying is all about,” I thought to myself as we sped along the surface of the ­Willamette River, the beyond-crisp western Oregon air rushing past. Our trusty fishing guide extraordinaire, Chad Wiest, from On the Line Guide Service, directed our boat by intuition, through the near darkness to a spot that promised […]

Photo by Terry Shepherd| Perusing the for-sale sections of used-jet websites turns up some intriguing listings for older Citations, Learjets, Falcons and Gulfstreams, many of which are selling for less than the price of a typical high-performance piston single. When you can pick up a Cessna Citation I/SP for around the same price as a […]

There’s been no shortage of companies seeking to take good business jets and make them a whole lot better by upgrading their performance, providing a fresh coat of paint, adding modern interiors and selling them for millions less than a new jet. It’s not a bad idea — if you can target just the right […]