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Hundreds of business, political and thought leaders from around the world gathered this week in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss issues such as poverty, the environment, stakeholder capitalism and other topics critical to the survival of the world. Western business aviation leaders were also front and center in Davos rolling out two new carbon-reduction initiatives at […]

Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announced last week that it has officially opened its second company-owned maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility in Southern California, one of the world’s busiest corridors for Gulfstream business jets. The new service center at Van Nuys Airport has customer resources that include sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and sizable ramp space. The […]

Aerion Supersonic announced this week that GE Aviation has been selected as the Electrical Power Systems provider for its AS2 supersonic 12 passenger business jet currently in development, with flight testing scheduled to begin in 2024. The system includes electrical power generation, distribution, conversion, and energy storage. The AS2 electrical power system design and initial […]

The Aircraft Electronics Association has released its third-quarter report for 2019, and the association reports a nearly 15% increase over third-quarter 2018 figures for the retrofit and forward-fit avionics market for business and general aviation, and a 14.3% increase over the year-to-date figures from 2018. The participating companies reported more than $2.2 billion in combined […]

AOPA’s You Can Fly program—recent winner of the National Aeronautic Association’s Frank G. Brewer Trophy for its work to foster general aviation development—has focused much of its resources on targeting STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) coursework at the high school level. To this end, it has executed its fifth annual High School Aviation STEM […]

The NTSB last week said its preliminary data showed U.S. civil aviation deaths in 2018 rose from the 347 reported in 2017 to 393 last year with most of those 2018 fatalities occurring in general aviation operations. General aviation was in fact responsible for 1,275 accidents in 2018 that included 381 of the fatalities, fully […]

While many pilots know General Electric as a company with significant history—it was founded in 1892—they may not realize that GE’s Aviation division just celebrated 100 years in 2017. Its first product, in July 1919, was a supercharger for the then-popular Liberty engine. The division evolved to the point that by 1937, while it installed […]

Daher, the French maker of the TBM and Kodiak series of single-engine turboprops, recently held a unique contest in a search for new products users would like to see on the TBM series of very fast turboprops. Daher called the contest general aviation’s first hackathon or “General Aviathon.” The company chose three winning concepts that […]

A couple of years ago, I restored a 17th-century barn in upstate New York. I acted as the general contractor. I was working from home, writing a screenplay, and figured I would keep costs down by not hiring a GC. And I did. The screenplay, though, did not get written. Between researching and ­buying materials, […]

Most of us learn best through the hands-on application of knowledge. You see this throughout aviation as you apply what you’ve learned in ground school to your actions in the airplane. Take it another step further: What if you had the opportunity to learn about aircraft design, create your own airplane in sophisticated software, and […]