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Honeywell says it expects record deliveries of business jets to continue for a few more years, but the peak of the market is in sight and will likely occur next year or in 2010. But even though the unprecedented expansion of the industry that has increased every year for the last five couldn’t continue, the […]

Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. Harrison Ford will join more than 300 fellow Cessna Citation pilots in the 2010 Special Olympics Airlift to Lincoln, Neb. in 2010 as honorary chairman. Ford appeared at the National Business Aviation Association […]

As this is written, the final day of 2007’s National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Annual Meeting and convention is well underway. Tired but smiling men and women in business attire are dragging stuffed luggage throughout Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC), tying up loose ends and making final passes through the exhibit floor. Last-minute errands […]

Innovation and growth topped everyone’s agenda at the 2007 National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. If there was any doubt as to the health of the business jet market, this show eradicated it. As always, AVweb‘s audio news team was on hand to get the biggest stories straight from the newsmakers themselves. […]

The Pratt & Whitney PW535E that will power Embraer’s new Phenom 300 light jet was successfully test-run and achieved its full thrust at 3,360 lbs. at PWC’s Longueil, Quebec facility, the company announced at NBAA this week. Company officials said the project is on time, and that will allow Embraer to maintain its development schedule […]

Original, Exclusive Videos from AVweb |Reader-Submitted & Viral Videos If there’s one thing we cay with certainty about the 2007 NBAA Convention and Trade Show, it’s this: Business aviation is healthy and keeping (very) busy. If you don’t believe us, check out these three exclusive videos we put together while gathering news reports for AVweb […]

NBAA President Ed Bolen and General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) President Pete Bunce told members and media representatives Tuesday that the fight is far from over to ensure that user fees are not part of the FAA reauthorization package currently before Congress. The House of Representatives have passed a bill that rejects user fees and […]

Cirrus Design has chosen L-3 Communications to provide the avionics for its prototype single engine jet. The announcement was made at the National Business Aviation Association’s convention in Atlanta. L-3 calls the avionics package the SmartDeck and says it represents the “next generation” of flat panels. In addition to all the usual features found on […]

Wednesday morning in Atlanta at the 60th National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Annual Meeting and Convention, executives from Epic Aircraft, India-based Kingfisher Airlines and Airbus sat down to confirm rumors and reports of a new strategic partnership, releasing few details but giving rise to additional speculation. Rick Schrameck, Epic Aircrafts president and CEO, Hitesh Patel, […]

If your company already has what it claims as the world’s fastest single-engine turboprop, what do you do to improve it and keep it competitive? New paint; new interior; drop the price? If you’re EADS Socata, and the airplane is the faster-than-your-propeller-airplane TBM 850, the correct answer is “none of the above.” Instead, you upgrade […]