Video of the Week

Nextant Aerospace has hade a business of “remanufacturing” the Hawker Beechjet 400A/Hawker 400XP — offering a new aircraft experience at a used aircraft price. Now it’s expanding that business model to the King Air, refitting the aircraft with GE engines. view on YouTube

Rockwell Collins brings enhanced vision to light jets with the EVS-3000 vision system and HGS-3500 display, which employs a new space-saving design. The company will bring the products to market with Embraer in 2015 aboard the Legacy 450 and, later, Legacy 500 business jets. view on YouTube

Pilatus Aircraft has seen great success with their PC-12 single-engine turboprop. The manufacturer is now venturing into the jet market with the PC-24 twin jet — a corporate comfort aircraft capable of flight in and out of unimproved airstrips. view on YouTube

Eclipse Aerospace president Mason Holland delivered the first Eclipse 550, boasting new upgrades to a customer at the National Business Aviation Association exhibition in Las Vegas, October 22, 2013. The aircraft hosts avionics upgrades and enhanced and synthetic vision systems. view on YouTube

New range, new power, new jet with more room — from Dassault. Unveiled at the National Business Aviation Association exhibition held in Las Vegas in October 2013, the Dassault Falcon 5X is the company’s latest offering. view on YouTube

Beechcraft’s King lives on with new upgrades in the 350i model. view on YouTube

Geographically, technologically, and spiritually, Xi’an is poised to be the heart of general aviation in China’s emerging GA market – much as Wichita, Kansas is to the U.S. GA scene. Perhaps that’s why Wichita is opening a bureau in Xi’an. AVweb spoke with Cessna’s William J. Schultz and Wichita mayor Carl Brewer at the China […]

A Chinese-based company recently bought Mooney and pledges to restart production, keeping the company at its Kerrville, Texas headquarters. In this exclusive interview from AVweb’s CIGAC/ATCC coverage of Chinese aviation, Jerry Chen reveals new details about where Mooney will be headed. view on YouTube

In Europe, autogyros are a mainstay in the recreational aviation market, and the same trend may develop in China. In this exclusive video report from the China International General Aviation Conference in Xi’an, AVweb’s Tim Cole reports that autogyros may be uniquely suited to China’s developing GA market. view on YouTube

China is building new, modern, and capable airports at a blistering pace, and many of these will eventually serve the developing general aviation market. AVweb’s Tim Cole visited Peucheng Airport in east central China and filed this video sampler of what’s on the flightline there. view on YouTube