Aviation News

Buyers of 2012 model year Piper M-Class airplanes (Matrix, Mirage and Malibu) are getting a host of upgrades on the inside and out, the manufacturer announced at the NBAA Convention. For the same base price as a comparable 2011 model, Piper is throwing in interior and exterior LED lighting, a pair of Bose A20 headsets […]

Hawker Beechcraft‘s Global Customer Support (GCS) unit announced a synthetic-vision upgrade program for all airplanes in the Hawker and Beechcraft families equipped with Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21. The upgrade requires the addition of a new LRU to the Pro Line 21 platform. The hardware provides the flight crew with a simulated 3D view of […]

Bombardier Aerospace has announced new suppliers for the Global 7000 and 8000 long-range business jets. The airplanes will be equipped with the Global Vision flight deck, based on the Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion integrated avionics suite. The avionics system will be essentially identical to the Global Vision flight deck certified by Transport Canada for […]

Honda Aircraft Company president and CEO Michimasa Fujino announced at an NBAA press briefing in Las Vegas that the development program for the company’s HF420 light jet has been pushed back due to a delay in the certification of the GE-Honda HF120 engine. Fujino said the delay is due to a redesign project caused by […]

On Monday at the NBAA Convention, Eclipse Aerospace announced that it was restarting production of its EA500 very light jet. First delivery of the new jet is planned for 2013. Eclipse is calling the new model the Eclipse 550, but it will retain the type certificate of the original while incorporating some noteworthy changes to […]

As business aviation leaders from around the world gathered in Las Vegas this week to kick off NBAA, one resounding theme echoed throughout the convention’s opening day: The Obama Administration’s relentless focus on bizav. Several company executives took the opportunity to speak out against the administration’s suggestion that user fees and changes to corporate aircraft […]

Bombardier has begun production of the first Learjet 85 test aircraft, the company announced on Sunday at the NBAA Convention. According to Bombardier, teams in Wichita, Montreal and other locations throughout the world are now actively engaged in the manufacturing validation process. A full-length fuselage, as well as several other key parts of the all-composite […]

On the first day of the NBAA convention, Cessna launched a new light midsize airplane, the Citation Latitude, which will sell for around $15 million. The airplane will feature an all new all-metal stand-up cabin fuselage, a wing nearly identical to the Citation Sovereign midsize jet and the Garmin G5000 integrated avionics suite. Cessna announced […]

At its annual pre-NBAA event, Honeywell forecasters predicted the kind of market that many analyists have been seeing of late: a slight uptick over the next couple of years followed by a strong improvement as world economies recover. The survey took the temperature of business aviation around the globe, asking more than 1,000 operators what […]

At the NBAA convention in Las Vegas, Embraer named international film star and martial arts expert Jackie Chan its official brand ambassador. Over the years, the 57-year-old Chan has made more than 100 movies and has estabished himself as a big box office draw around the globe with his clever, funny and frenetic acting, which […]