Aircraft

After Hawker Beechcraft last week revealed plans to resuscitate its ailing business by shedding its jet product portfolio and focusing on a line of revitalized piston and turboprop models, a big unanswered question centered on where the bankrupt company would find the funding to develop and certify not just one but as many as four […]

When Special Olympics athletes descend on the Princeton/Mercer County area of New Jersey for the 2014 games, some 800 of them will be arriving in Cessna Citation jets. The Seventh Citation Olympics Airlift was announced at last month’s NBAA Convention in Orlando, and the volunteer effort is expected to bring athletes from all 50 states […]

If you hold an order for one of the first three or four HondaJets, it’s time to start getting excited. The first several production aircraft are now on the assembly line in Greensboro, North Carolina, in anticipation of certification before the end of next year. It’s been a long and winding road for the unique […]

Are you concerned about the sky gradually becoming filled with windowless aircraft controlled by someone miles (maybe even states) away? You’re not alone. But it may be that the real “threat” turns out to be less about midair collisions and more about increasingly complicated and restricted airspace rules to accommodate remotely piloted aircraft operations. They […]

Kevin McCullough’s grandfather, who started a Commander service center called Aero Air in 1956, used to say: “God never made a low-wing bird.” So when McCullough was old enough to start flying, there wasn’t much choice. “I learned to fly in a Lark Commander, got my multiengine rating in a Shrike Commander and then went […]

Ikhana Aircraft Services has kicked off a new program at the French Valley Airport (F70) in Murrieta, California, that focuses on a complete refurbishment of the de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter. Named the Ikhana Twin Otter X2, the program strips the aging airframes and brings them a new life with a life limit of 66,000 […]

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 […]