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As Rockwell Collins integrates its Ascend flight information services program with newly acquired flight support giant Arinc, new flight planning tools have been added to simplify flight operations. With its new identity, Arinc Direct will focus on four pillars of service for flight department customer: international trip support, cabin connectivity, flight deck connection and flight […]

A Dassault Falcon 50 carrying the CEO of French oil company Total crashed into a snowplow on a Moscow runway as the airplane accelerated for takeoff late Monday night, killing the executive, 63-year-old Christophe de Margerie, along with the two pilots and a flight attendant. The crash happened at Vnukovo International Airport a few minutes […]

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 […]

Wheels Up, the membership-based private aviation company launched last year in the Northeast with a fleet of Beechcraft King Air 350i turboprops, announced today that the service is expanding into Texas and several surrounding states. Earlier this year the start-up company began basing airplanes on the West Coast, leaving the Chicago region as the last […]

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 […]

Bombardier yesterday formally introduced the Challenger 650, a refresh of the Challenger 605 model with upgrades to the cockpit and cabin that have enticed fractional-ownership giant NetJets to place a firm order for 25 of the large-cabin jets plus options for 50 more. The Challenger 650 features the Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21-based Vision flight […]