NBAA 2015

NBAA 2015 is in the books after the doors closed for good yesterday on a show that featured an abundance of big news stories to go along with the big crowds. The National Business Aviation Association said more than 27,000 attendees visited the show, where 1,100 exhibitors occupied around a million square feet of space […]

At this week’s NBAA show in Las Vegas, Garmin announced a new series of aviation products that are designed to make the runway environment safer. By providing audible and visual cues, Terminal Safety Solutions alert the pilot of threats to safety in the airport environment. The Terminal Safety Solutions include SurfaceWatch, TerminalTraffic and SafeTaxi. SurfaceWatch […]

FlightSafety is expanding its eLearning offerings by adding a NextGen communications and navigation course in order to familiarize flight departments with the future of technology. The two-hour course will cover all the bases, including key events in the history of air traffic management, transponder and radar theory basics, identification of NextGen air transportation systems and […]

Avionica Inc. announced that Constant Aviation would be its first dealer and installation center for all of its products, including flight data management services, flight operational quality assurance data, and satcom systems for business aircraft. Avionica has installed its miniQAR equipment to capture data on more than 8,000 aircraft, including Boeing, Gulfstream, Dassault, Cessna and […]

At the NBAA annual convention in Las Vegas, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University confirmed the dates of its 2016 Wings and Waves Air Show, which will be held in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Oct. 8-9. At the 2012 show, Wings and Waves drew more than 100,000 visitors, as well as special guests, industry leaders, graduates and current […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]