Very Light Jet

Part of the VLJ craze of the early 2000s, the Eclipse 500 was a well-regarded aircraft that never reached its full potential.

Small, six-seat jet was designed to revolutionize the way people traveled by air.

Designed for pilots stepping up from piston singles, the Vision Jet eases the cockpit workload.

Known for category-leading speed, the compact HondaJet outperforms some larger business aircraft.

The updated Hondajet Elite II will have increased range and autothrottle, along with Garmin’s Autoland system.

Visitors to the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) convention in Atlanta in October got the first public look at the results of a major transformation from the original proof-of-concept PiperJet. Even the name has changed. It’s now the PiperJet Altaire, and the new look and functionality are much more jetlike than the original’s. The basics […]

Now the Altaire, it’s a whole new species.

Though known for its helicopters, Sikorsky has a legacy that includes some iconic fixed-wing aircraft dating back to the 1930s. Now, the company is back in the fixed-wing business. During the NBAA Convention in Atlanta last week, Sikorsky signed an agreement in principle to invest in Eclipse Aerospace, the company that has acquired the rights […]

The economic strain overriding the entire GA industry continues to dog the Diamond D-Jet program. A max effort to re-engine their DA42 twin-engine piston in 2008 sapped Diamond financial strategists, resulting in adjustments to the certification schedule for the single-engine D-Jet. There has been no official update for more than a year, since the company […]

Cirrus expects its SF50 single-engine jet to begin deliveries in “late 2013,” six years after work began on the project. Company CEO Brent Wouters told the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune that the project is at the halfway point, and about 100 current customers had been invited to a flyover of the prototype at the Twin […]