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In a normal year, Honeywell has released its annual Global Business Aviation Outlook in a kickoff event at the National Business Aviation Association’s Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition. This year, the team at Honeywell delivered an advanced briefing to Flying ahead of the forecast’s debut on October 6. In that briefing, the tempered optimism stood […]

As the COVID-19 pandemic grinds on and more pilots are flying fewer hours, it is more important than ever to stay focused on safety. When the workload of flying single-pilot crashes head-on into the stresses of our personal lives, it is sometimes easy to push aviation safety away from top-of-the-mind. However, it is then that […]

On the second night of the National Business Aviation Association’s annual convention, the Corporate Angel Network traditionally hosts its live auction, Fund An Angel, to muster financial support for the organization, which coordinates relief flights for cancer patients across the United States. While the NBAA’s live event has been cancelled, the auction goes on, in […]

The people on and around the airport in Teterboro, New Jersey (KTEB)—one of the busiest general aviation airports in the nation at 302,000 takeoffs and landings—take aircraft noise very seriously. My introduction to the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey employees who keep an eye on arrivals and departures occurred when a noise […]

Orlando’s Convention Center and the surrounding areas are going to be quite a bit quieter this October after the National Business Aviation Association yesterday announced the cancellation of the 2020 Business Aviation Convention and Exposition. The show, originally scheduled to run October 6 to 8, typically attracts between 20,000 and 25,000 attendees. In a news […]

The National Transportation Safety Board determined the probable cause of the accident to be “The operator’s decision to allow a flight in an airplane with known, unresolved maintenance discrepancies, and the flight crew’s failure to properly configure the airplane in a way that would have allowed the emergency or parking brake systems to stop the […]

Three months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Business Aviation Association reports operators are slowing coming back online as the market and economy attempts to rebound. “We’re seeing charter activity increase a bit faster than we expected, which is great news,” said Phil Derner, NBAA Western regional representative. “As the industry starts to slowly emerge, […]

As our personal and professional lives move through the drastic changes the world is experiencing, aviation associations like the National Business Aviation Association are moving fast to re-tool content delivery systems to maintain their usual high level of educational benefits. NBAA’s new GO Virtual Interactive Platform is an example of the shifting mindset association executives […]

The National Business Aviation Association and a number of other alphabet groups last week participated in a conference call with senior Flight Standards officials to reiterate the importance of providing general aviation operators with regulatory exemption and accommodation in the face of the devastating industry effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Agency officials said they are […]

The general aviation industry has always harnessed a sense of optimism towards the future—the completed first solo flight, the new aircraft brought to production, the historic milestone crossed. So, it was with a collective heavy heart that organizations across its breadth elected to cancel the first round of spring shows for 2020, with the most […]