Aviation News

ONE Aviation announced Wednesday that its Eclipse 550 twin-engine jet was awarded type certification by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). “We are thrilled to have EASA certification in place,” says David Hayman, CEO of Aeris Aviation. “This now opens the EU OPS market [European equivalent of Part 135] for the Eclipse, allowing us to […]

The French producer of the TBM product line, Daher, has launched a new concept to support a growing number of charter operators transporting customers in TBM airplanes. Named the TBM Charter Pack, the program extends Daher’s TBM Care Program (TCP) to cover the increase in flight time that comes with commercial operations. While there are […]

ForeFlight is rethinking the preflight briefing with new graphical tools for its flight planning app that replace the sometimes hard to interpret wall of text in past briefings with a more interactive and intuitive experience. ForeFlight Briefing is a standard briefing with content derived from approved government sources. It includes all the elements of a […]

BendixKing is bringing its AeroVue retrofit cockpit to select Cessna Citation and King Air models through a partnership with Sabreliner Aviation. The agreement calls for Sabreliner to provide certification, installations and service for AeroVue cockpits in the Cessna Citation V, Encore and Ultra, as well as the King Air C90. AeroVue was previously announced for […]

Torrance, California-based Robinson Helicopters has announced a new two-seat version of the R44 named the Cadet. The design is targeted for the training market, though Robinson says the Cadet can be employed in a variety of missions. The basic design parameters for the Cadet, such as the airframe, rotor system and Lycoming O-540-F1B5 power plant, […]

Dassault Aviation’s new flagship, the Falcon 8X, made its debut this week at the NBAA’s Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition in Las Vegas. The new ultra-long range Falcon 8X will offer the greatest range and cabin length in any Falcon aircraft, as well as the broadest selection of cabin configurations. Since taking their first flight […]

Lightspeed Aviation showed off the newest addition to its aviation headset family at NBAA on Tuesday. Announced last week via live webcast, Tango is the first premium wireless aviation headset to hit the market. Using a patent-pending combination of analog and digital technologies called Lightspeed Link, each Tango headset creates its own secure wireless signal […]

Honeywell Aerospace trimmed its business jet forecast slightly compared with the value noted in last year’s outlook, saying slow economic growth and the anticipation of new models in flight testing will lead to fewer aircraft deliveries in 2016. Honeywell nonetheless predicted that 9,200 new business jets worth an impressive $270 billion will roll out of […]

Rockwell Collins announced at NBAA’s Business Aircraft Convention and Exposition the addition of the Cessna Citation CJ series of light business jets to the growing list of platforms to be retrofitted with its Pro Line Fusion touch screen avionics suite. Rockwell Collins partnered with Duncan Aviation, which will initially start with an STC retrofit for […]

Stans, Switzerland-based Pilatus announced improvements to the 2016 model of its single-engine turboprop-powered PC-12 NG, upgrades the company says will provide its customers with greater speed, climb performance, range and cabin comfort. Without increasing the horsepower of the PT6A engine, but rather through several drag-reducing modifications, the max cruise speed has been increased to 285 […]