Aircraft

Pratt & Whitney Canada fans have been waiting for this moment for a long time. In development for the past seven years at Pratt & Whitney Canada’s headquarters near Montreal, the PW800 turbofan engine had its formal unveiling party at the NBAA Convention in Orlando, Florida, this morning as company president John Sabaas lifted the […]

As NBAA opened the doors to its annual Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition in Orlando, Florida, SyberJet unveiled the cockpit layout and design for the SJ30 business jet, a modernized version of Sino Swearingen’s SJ30. Mark Fairchild, SyberJet’s general manager and director of sales and customer service, said the cockpit redesign took into consideration that […]

Pilots and their pristine airplanes are gearing up to strut their stuff for the upcoming Parade of Planes at the Flying Aviation Expo, which will kick off on Thursday, October 30, in beautiful Palm Springs, California. Everything from backcountry taildraggers like the Husky A-1C, vintage warbirds such as the P-63 Kingcobra, airshow stars like the […]

GE’s VP of Business and General Aviation Brad Mottier on Monday announced that GE was in the process of buying at least two HondaJets, with the purchase symbolically taking place at NBAA on Tuesday. The HondaJet is equipped with the GE Honda Aero HF120 Engine. The company is a joint venture between Honda and GE, […]

Beechcraft King Air pilots and operators now have an opportunity to upgrade their Garmin G1000 panels with new functions. King Air 200 and 300 series operators who have been craving G1000 upgrades such as Garmin’s Synthetic Vision Technology (SVT), Jeppesen’s ChartView charting system and Electronic Stability and Protection system (ESP), which helps the pilot maintain […]

The Cessna Citation Latitude made a spectacular arrival to the NBAA Convention, landing at Orlando Executive Airport (KORL) on Sunday after a 2-hour 20-minute flight from the company’s headquarters located at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport. Cessna expects the Latitude to gain FAA certification in next year’s second quarter. During Sunday’s flight the Latitude took just 19 […]

HondaJet president Michimasa Fujino announced at the NBAA Convention that the company’s light jet is making progress toward certification, which it expects to earn in the first quarter of next year, with first customer deliveries taking place immediately afterward. Current price of the HondaJet is $4.5 million. The company has more than 100 orders for […]

At its press conference today at the NBAA Convention in Orlando, Florida, Piaggio unveiled not only a new logo, but also a new name. Rebranded as Piaggio Aerospace, the company will operate three business units. In addition to its business aviation segment, which includes the recently announced Piaggio Evo, the company will expand into engines, […]

The latest Honeywell business aviation forecast estimates modest growth in aircraft deliveries in the next decade as buyers slowly ramp up their purchasing expectations. The annual survey of worldwide operators foresees deliveries of as many as 9,450 new business jets valued at $280 billion between now and 2024, an increase of around 7 percent by […]

Gulfstream president and CEO Larry Flynn today shared the by-now well-known news of the launch of two new clean-sheet airplanes, the G500 and G600. During Gulfstream’s NBAA Convention press conference Flynn showed footage of the spectacular public launch at the company’s headquarters in Savannah, Georgia, last week. That launch, by Flynn and General Dynamics CEO […]