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Through its AeroAPI utility, FlightAware expanded the functionality of the query-based flight tracking to offer customers access to historical flight data dating back to Jan. 1, 2011. FlightAware users can already retrieve on-demand real-time flight status updates, flight tracks, future flight schedules and other flight data specific to any airport, airline fleet, flight or tail […]

If you’ve tried to visualize what your aircraft would look like with new paint colors you know it’s not nearly as easy as it seems. But Sherwin-Williams Aerospace Coatings has a new paint planning utility to start the project in the right direction so you’ll be better prepared to work with scheme designers and paint […]

At this week’s NBAA-BACE business aviation show in Orlando, Florida, the International Aircraft Dealers Association (IADA) released its Third Quarter 2022 Market Report, and the association leadership offered its interpretation of the data during a press briefing. As a trade advocacy group with specified standards for membership, IADA currently includes 52 business aircraft dealers (with […]

In this podcast, AVweb’s Kate O’Connor talks with Eviation President and CEO Gregory Davis about the first flight of the company’s all-electric Alice, along with certification timeline for the aircraft, its purpose and the development of relevant battery technology.

Like most of business aviation, operations are booming for “bizliners” (airliners in bizjet-style configuration). The Boeing Business Jets division briefed the press at the NBAA-BACE event in Orlando, Florida, on Oct. 17, and had lots of good news to report for their corner of the industry. Marketing director Alex Feteau navigated through a series of […]

Blackhawk Aerospace has completed baseline flight testing for its new Pilatus PC-12 engine upgrade program, the company announced at the 2022 NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE). The XP67P Engine+ Upgrade program will replace the PC-12’s stock Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67B engine with a factory-new PT6A-67P, which offers higher internal turbine temperature (ITT) […]

If a new Bombardier Challenger, Learjet or Global-series bizjet is out of the budget, the company is offering the best of the best used models through its certified pre-owned aircraft program. At the NBAA-BACE 2022 convention in Orlando, the company described its structured program, which starts with a meticulous selection and inspection process of pre-owned […]

There are plenty of aging turboprops in need of avionics upgrades and Garmin has a long and growing list of STC approvals for its retrofit flight displays, engine monitoring system, navigators and GFC 600 autopilot. Aviation Consumer magazine Editor-in-Chief and AVweb contributor Larry Anglisano caught up with Garmin’s Dave Brown at the NBAA-BACE 2022 gathering […]

Alternative-energy aircraft developer Ampaire has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Tamarack Aerospace Group “to develop further aerodynamic upgrades for Ampaire’s family of hybrid electric aircraft.” Plans call for Tamarack to adapt its “Smartwing” active winglet technology to Ampaire’s alternative energy variants of the Cessna 208 Caravan, Twin Otter and Beechcraft King Air aircraft. […]

Bombardier has signed a multiyear deal with aviation services company Signature Aviation for the purchase of enough sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to cover all of its flight operations. The agreement was signed at the 2022 NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition and is slated to begin on Jan. 1, 2023. It will use the Signature […]