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Shaesta Waiz will be flying around the world via Afghanistan next year. AVweb’s Russ Niles spoke with her at NBAA 2015. Duration: 3:18 File Size: 3.0 MB download here

The same sort of market conditions that depressed the light and midsize business jet market for the past seven years is now slowing down the previously untouched large-cabin market. In fact, Gulfstream President Mark Burns told a packed news conference at NBAA in Las Vegas that the combination of a large inventory of relatively new […]

Fractional operator Flexjet has become Aerion’s first firm fleet customer, with an order for 20 supersonic jets, Flexjet announced Tuesday at the NBAA convention in Las Vegas. The Aerion AS2 business jet, which is expected to enter service in 2023, will save travelers up to three hours of flight time on trans-Atlantic trips compared to […]

Airbus is ramping up its investment in the Aerion AS2 supersonic-jet program, the two companies announced at the NBAA convention in Las Vegas this week, and Aerion CEO Doug Nichols said he expects a first flight for the aircraft in 2021. “We are targeting the first half of 2016 to select a propulsion system, which […]

Dassault Aviation has brought its Falcon 8X, which was announced in May last year, to NBAA for the first time. The airplane on display in Las Vegas is the sixth one off the assembly line and will head to Dassault’s completion facility in Arkansas after the show. The 8X, which is derived from the 7X, […]

As expected, Textron Aviation announced a third member of its family of next-generation Citation aircraft at NBAA 2015 with the introduction of the Hemisphere. The new aircraft will have a range of 4500 nautical miles and “best in class” everything else but details were scant on the aircraft’s other specs. The engine and avionics choices […]

Textron Aviation displayed the test article of its Cessna Citation Longitude super mid-size business jet at NBAA 2015 in Las Vegas. Kriya Shortt shows us around. view on YouTube

Pilatus has flown the second prototype of its PC-24 twin-engine jet, the company announced Monday at the NBAA convention in Las Vegas. The aircraft, designated P02, took off from Buochs Airport in Switzerland on Monday morning and flew for 82 minutes. The P02 jet will complete initial test flights in Switzerland, then will be deployed […]

Wheels Up, a startup fractional operator specializing in King Air 350i aircraft, says it’s seeing strong demand for a service that provides fractional customers with on-demand transportation at prices below those offered by established jet fractional companies. At the NBAA convention in Las Vegas Monday, Wheels Up CEO Kenny Dichter said the company has flown […]

Textron Aviation is rumored to be one of the big newsmakers at NBAA in Las Vegas this week with the potential for two major airframe announcements. Of course, the company didn’t directly respond to AVweb’s inquiries about the new aircraft but it did encourage us to attend its news conference Monday at Henderson Executive Airport, […]