Aircraft

Bombardier unveiled the first NetJets Global 6000 on Sunday at the NBAA Convention. The ultra-long-range jet will be handed over to the company in the coming weeks as part of what will go down as the second-largest aircraft purchase in the history of private aviation. Equipped with the Pro Line Fusion avionics suite from Rockwell […]

Kestrel Aircraft President and CEO Alan Klapmeier gave an update on the development of the company’s single-engine turboprop this week at the NBAA Convention. The new design is significantly different from the Farnborough Aircraft-designed prototype Kestrel that first flew in 2006. “The changes are really driven by what we think the customers expect,” Klapmeier said. […]

Of all the interesting aircraft featured on the exhibit floor of NBAA 2012, one somewhat mysterious un-named mock-up has captured the particular interest of a number of attendees. The mock-up in question was brought to the show by Cessna in an effort to gauge the reactions of attendees as they take it in both from […]

When buyers start taking delivery of their new Gulfstream G650s later this year, they will be delighted to learn that the ultra-long-range business jet can fly farther at faster speeds than originally projected. Gulfstream says the G650’s range at its high-speed cruise of Mach 0.90 is now 6,000 nautical miles, a 1,000-nm increase over the […]

Cessna is upgrading the Citation Sovereign midsize business jet with a switch to Garmin G5000 avionics, more powerful and efficient Pratt & Whitney engines and performance-boosting winglets. The change to Pratt & Whitney PW306D turbofan engines will increase the Sovereign’s range by 150 nautical miles, giving the airplane a total range of over 3,000 nm. […]

The flight home began early on the last day of AirVenture. Andy Werback took the active runway, advanced the throttle and headed west. In the eight+ hours of flying it would take to get back to his home in Sebastopol, one has to wonder how many times he glanced at the Gold Lindy trophy near […]

The business jet side of Boeing this week announced its intent to offer a new ultra-long-range line of airplanes called BBJ Max. The first offerings will be the BBJ Max 8 and BBJ Max 9, said BBJ President Steven Taylor at a press conference at the NBAA Convention in Orlando, Florida. The new models, he […]

Dassault Falcon is fine-tuning its product mix with the launch of the $30.4 million Falcon 2000LXS as a replacement for the current 2000LX. The biggest changes center on new model’s improved short-field capability thanks to the addition of full-length inboard slats on the wing. The 2000LXS will also boast increased payload carrying capability and a […]

Still stinging from the collapse of its buyout deal with Superior Aviation Beijing, Hawker Beechcraft used the stage at the NBAA Convention to focus on the future — and in particular the company’s plans to introduce four new turboprop and piston models in the next five years while also exiting the business jet market. Plans […]

A Maryland company named R3 Engineering reported yesterday it has completed successful testing of an ADS-B-based fully autonomous collision avoidance sequence. The “sense and avoid” system installed in an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) received and processed ADS-B signals from another aircraft, and the UAS’s on board computer determined that their courses constituted a threat of […]