Aircraft

Glasair Aviation USA has handed over the assets of the Glasair II and III to Redding, California-based Advanced Aero Components. The company has purchased the parts inventory, tooling and other intellectual property related to the speedy side-by-side two-seat airplanes. The Sports Class at the National Championship Air Races has been won multiple times by a […]

After a successful maiden flight in September, the fourth test vehicle for Bombardier’s green Global 7000 business jet made its Vegas debut by arriving at NBAA-BACE this week. Outfitted with a full cabin, FTV4, or “The Architect” as the company calls it, took its place the event’s static display and showed off what the “largest […]

Mojave, California-based Scaled Composites, which was founded by famed aircraft engineering visionary Burt Rutan who retired in 2011, this week conducted the first flight of an experimental airplane named Model 401. The airplane was designed for a “proprietary customer.” The proof-of-concept features sharper angles than we’re used to seeing on the wings and vertical tail […]

Riding high on the success of its final test flight in August, the Gulfstream G600 arrived in Las Vegas this week for a formal unveiling. The fully-outfitted G600 offered customers and general onlookers an idea of just how luxurious the aircraft can be, as it was built with a “high level of customization” in mind. […]

It has been almost two years since NetJets took delivery of a Cessna Citation Latitude, which the fractional business jet company used as a demonstrator to showcase the aircraft’s capabilities and potential to customers across the U.S. In June of 2016, NetJets received the first Latitude in a firm order of 25 bizjets, initially with […]

One significant bit of positive news at Dassault’s NBAA press conference was how well the year-old Falcon 8X seems to be settling in with the customers, especially regarding cabin size and range. The 8X recently completed a 6,300-nm leg from Singapore to London. Another was mention of an additional new Falcon being considered down the […]

Nextant announced a slew of improvements to the 604XT, a refurbished version of Bombardier’s Challenger 604 business jet that the company first announced at NBAA’s European Business Aviation Convention and Expo in Geneva. A spectacular new interior design was revealed at a press conference at the Las Vegas convention center, where NBAA’s Business Aviation Convention […]

With the NBAA’s 2017 Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition set to begin on Tuesday, Embraer Executive Jets unveiled the Phenom 300E, the next step in the evolution of its best-selling light bizjet. The original Phenom 300 was introduced to the market in 2009, and since 2013 Embraer has delivered more than 400 aircraft to more […]

Pilatus, the Swiss aircraft manufacturer of the successful PC-12 single engine turboprop, says development of its versatile PC-24 Super Versatile business jet has entered its final phase. The PC-24, sporting a large cargo door like the PC-12, is one of the few business jets capable of operating from short, unimproved runways such as grass and […]

Dubai officials say they want theirs to become the world’s smartest city. A project certain to help reach that goal is developing a fleet of autonomous vehicles to handle a quarter of all passenger transport by 2030. Ignoring critics who scoffed at the claim earlier this year that the German-designed Volocopter, recently renamed the autonomous […]