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Breathable air is one of the main selling points of a northern Chinese province’s effort to develop the “World Aviation City of Ordos” in Inner Mongolia. The local government is proposing an $8 billion aviation-oriented community that will include “the world’s largest GA base” with an FBO that has parking for up to 1,000 aircraft. […]

CAE has opened a new 60,000-square-foot business aviation training facility, CAE Dallas East, just east of the Dallas Forth Worth Airport, the company announced Tuesday at the NBAA convention in Orlando. The company has also added programs at its existing Dallas facility. The combined Dallas space now totals 486,000 square feet, with 40 simulators, 114 […]

AT NBAA in Orlando, there are some large airplanes on the show floor. How did they get them there? A midnight parade of planes from Orlando International, that’s how. view on YouTube

A dozen years ago, Embraer was just an upstart in the business aviation world. But at NBAA, it showed off another new model, its fifth. The Legacy 450 is just entering flight testing. AVweb’s Russ Niles interviewed Embraer’s Marco Tulio Pellegrini to learn more about the new jet. view on YouTube

Ed Bolen, the CEO of the National Business Aviation Association, says the organization’s 2014 show in Orlando is a little bigger than last year’s show in Las Vegas. AVweb’s Russ Niles spoke with Bolen at the static display at Orlando Executive Airport. Duration: 3:24 File Size: 3.1 MB download here

A French industrialist and three crew members were reportedly killed early Tuesday when their Falcon 50 business jet reportedly hit a snowplow on a runway at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport. Early reports were not clear on the phase of flight the aircraft was in but did say the crew managed to keep it airborne for a […]

GE Honda announced at the NBAA convention in Orlando this week that its HF120 engine will soon have a retrofit for the CitationJet, the CJ1 and the CJ1+. The retrofit STC will be carried out by Sierra Industries, a well-known Texas-based mod house with wide experience in the Citation line. GE Honda claims the HF120 […]

Although the total number of aircraft and hours flown still remains small, business aviation in China continues to grow at a blistering pace, according to Deer Jet, China’s largest provider of charter aviation services. In a podcast interview with AVweb on Monday at the National Business Aviation Association show in Orlando, Deer Jet’s Zhang Peng […]

With major orders from Flexjet and Quatar Airways, Gulfstream said at the NBAA convention in Orlando this week that it sees strong continued growth for aircraft sales and it reports that both revenues and earnings are up substantially over the previous year, increasingly 7.5 and 12 percent respectively. In 2010, the company embarked on a […]

Textron Aviation launched NBAA’s annual Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition in Orlando on Monday morning, with a news conference marking their first appearance at the show since uniting the Cessna and Beechcraft lines under one corporate umbrella. The company brought 12 aircraft to the static display at Orlando Executive Airport, with turboprops and jets from […]