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Any doubts that Embraer will be a major player in the business aircraft market likely evaporated Monday as NetJets announced it intends to buy 125 Phenom 300 light business jets from the Brazilian planemaker. The sale may also signal some welcome stirring in the market that will lead to the first steps to recovery of […]

Business aviation should begin its next period of expansion in 2012, according to the 19th annual business aviation outlook issued by Honeywell Aerospace at NBAA’s Annual Convention this week. About 11,000 new business jets, valued at over $225 billion, will be delivered from this year through 2020, according to the company’s analysis. “Despite a torpid […]

The Asian Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition will return in 2012 after a three-year hiatus forced by the economic downturn. At a news conference at the National Business Aviation Association convention in Atlanta on Monday, NBAA and the Asian Business Aviation Association (AsBAA) jointly announced the resurrection of the event. The first one was held […]

In keeping with the large-cabin theme of this year’s National Business Aviation Association convention, Cessna’s major announcement of the show is an extensive upgrade of its flagship bizjet. In fact, Cessna says the makeover of the Citation X is so complete that it considers the new model, called the Citation Ten, to be a new […]

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Business aviation is on the offensive after spending much of the year on the ropes courtesy of the battered economy and some politically opportunistic comments by, well, politicians. During the opening general session of the National Business Aviation Association convention on Tuesday, NBAA President Ed Bolen and General Aviation Manufacturers Association President Pete Bunce gave […]

Golf legend Arnold Palmer has lent his support to the public relations campaign being waged by the National Business Aviation Association and General Aviation Manufacturers Association to try to change the perception of business aviation. Palmer stars in three television/online commercials in which he discusses the function, value and myths about business aviation. “For 50 […]

While the difficult economic and perception problems plaguing the business aviation industry have center stage at the National Business Aviation Association convention this week in Orlando, background work on the reauthorization of the FAA continues, and NBAA President Ed Bolen told today’s opening session that there is strong opposition to the administration’s apparent preference for […]

Although there have been hopeful signs in the past year that the downward slide of business aviation is slowing, if not stopped, the consensus of industry leaders at this year’s National Business Aviation Association convention is that recovery will be slow and painful. “We expect 2010 to be a tough year,” said Hawker Beechcraft CEO […]

Cessna’s large-cabin business jet might be officially dead, but CEO Jack Pelton is suggesting it still has a pulse. Pelton surprised a packed media conference Monday by saying he prefers to consider the Columbus project “suspended” even though it’s been formally cancelled by parent company Textron. He said the stronger language was important for “contractual […]