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Dassault unveiled the Falcon 2000S on Monday at EBACE in Geneva, positioning the new model as a lower-priced Falcon 2000DX replacement that will compete directly against the Gulfstream G250, Bombardier Challenger 300 and Hawker 4000 in the super-midsize business jet segment. With a price tag of around $25 million, Dassault claims the Falcon 2000S will […]

Industry leaders hailed the strong turnout for the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva this week as an indicator that the market may indeed finally by turning a corner after more than two and half years of decline. “Cautiously optimistic,” was how several top executives put it when describing their prospects for […]

British airplane restorer Kevin Crumplin recently put the finishing touches on not one but three de Havilland Tiger Moths that look better than the day they came off their respective factory floors, one from Morris Motors and two from de Havilland, between 1936 and 1943. There were more than 7,000 Tiger Moths produced in England […]

Despite having logged 21,000 hours over the years, for Emily Warner, her most recent flight was a special one. That’s because Warner, reportedly the first female commercial airline pilot hired by a U.S. scheduled airline, organized the flight to fulfill the last wish of a long-time friend and fellow aviator who has been suffering from […]

Yves Rossy, dubbed “Jetman” after becoming the first man ever to fly with a jet-propelled wing, completed a historic eight-minute flight over the Grand Canyon on Saturday. According to a press release issued by Breitling, Rossy’s sponsor, the Swiss pilot completed the flight after taking off from a helicopter at 8,000 feet with his jet-propelled […]

According to recent figures released by flight data resource ARG/US, business air traffic in the United States was down by 7.3 percent in April compared to March of this year. With decreases of 8.1 percent, large cabin and turboprop aircraft saw the biggest declines in flight hours. Mid-size cabin aircraft activity dropped 7.1 percent, and […]

More than 460 companies are gearing up to showcase at the upcoming 2011 European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition, which will take place over a three-day stretch in Geneva next week. This year’s show, jointly hosted by EBAA and NBAA, will be the 11th consecutive EBACE and has already acquired enough exhibitors to break the […]

Piper Aircraft reported this week that its first quarter billings are up by nearly $7.7 million over the same time period last year. The increase is a 40 percent improvement from $18,458,531 in the first quarter of 2010 to $26,159,703 this year. While the total number of airplanes delivered by the company dropped from 30 […]

The Civil Air Patrol has been tapped to participate in a major homeland security and disaster response exercise starting on May 16 that will test emergency responders’ ability to handle a massive earthquake in America’s heartland along the seismic-sensitive New Madrid fault. “CAP is a nationwide organization with a tremendous amount of resources it can […]

Boeing recently made the first flight of its Phantom Ray, a remotely piloted aerial vehicle — Boeing uses the term “unmanned airborne system” (UAS) — from Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert of Southern California. The airplane looks for all the world like a half-scale radio-control early prototype of the Stealth Fighter, which […]