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With new aircraft sales soft, buyers who really need business transportation are finding Cessnas older CitationJet 525s to be an alluring value. Theyre about to get even more attractive, now that Garmin and Cessna have announced a program to upgrade these legacy airframes to full glass cockpits with the popular G1000 suite. As configured for […]

Touchscreen control is standard equipment on most of Garmin’s road navigators and at NBAA in Orlando this week, Garmin says the same will soon be true for cockpit EFIS. Garmin announced the new G3000, a touchscreen (and widescreen) follow-on to its popular G1000 suite. The new EFIS is aimed a light turboprops and will be […]

October 20-22 is the annual NBAA Convention, and we’ll bring you news and announcements every day from the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. To follow our daily coverage, take a moment to make sure you’re signed up for our no-cost AVwebBiz e-newsletter. Add AVwebBiz to your AVweb subscriptions today by clicking here and […]

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Attendance at the National Business Aviation Association’s 61st convention in Orlando this week was down marginally according to early attendance figures released Wednesday. NBAA spokesman Dan Hubbard said 30,164 people attended the show, down about 600 from last year. “It’s 2 percent,” NBAA President Ed Bolen told AVweb. “This was a solid show.” There was […]

While the crowds at this week’s NBAA Convention in Orlando, Fla., are busy out on the convention floor and on the flight line checking out all the latest and greatest technology, a lot is also going on in the meeting rooms, as movers and shakers get together to discuss issues of importance to the industry. […]

NBAA is one of the shows where major sales announcements are made, but there haven’t been that many at this year’s show. Hawker Beechcraft stepped out of that mold today with a $200 million announcement. Brazilian-based Lder Signatures S.A. has ordered 23 aircraft, covering the cross-section of jet products from the Wichita company. The major […]

In its element (and that’s pretty varied) there is no more highly-respected aircraft than the deHavilland DHC-6 Twin Otter. Made famous by the Antarctic rescue of a sick scientist in -75 temperatures, the high-wing twin has toiled for almost 40 years in some of the harshest (and most idyllic) environments on Earth. But the fleet […]

It’s a window on the world when the world isn’t cooperating and now it’s available as an after market enhancement for business, commercial and military aircraft. Elbit Kollsman has developed an add-on HUD that displays flight instrument information against an infrared image of the world outside when darkness and weather obscure that. Several customers are […]

One of Diamond Aircraft’s biggest customers for its D-Jet single-engine jet has been named its training partner for customers of the new jet. ATP (Air Transport Professionals), which has ordered 20 of the five-passenger aircraft, will do the transition training and type ratings for D-Jet customers. “The D-Jet is designed primarily for the owner/pilot market […]