Air Shows & Events

GE Honda Aero Engines (GHAE) has completed ground testing of its HF120 engine using 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), the company announced at the 2022 NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition. The test, which compared engine performance using 100 percent SAF to performance with Jet A/A1, took place at GE’s Peebles Test Operations facility […]

Aviation electric propulsion system developer magniX has been chosen to be the power behind several all-electric and hybrid electric aircraft designs to date. In this podcast, Simon Roads, senior vice president for sales and marketing, discusses the company’s achievements, technologies and goals for the future.

Textron Aviation’s next-generation Citation XLS and M2 business jets made their show debut at this year’s National Business Aviation Association convention. Introduced last year, the Gen2 models feature a number of cabin-focused upgrades.

The 2022 NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) is underway in Orland, Florida. AVweb’s Kate O’Connor and Mark Phelps join Aviation Consumer magazine Editor-in-Chief Larry Anglisano at the show to talk about what’s happening in business aviation.

There are plenty of aging jets and turboprops that are still good airplanes, but many need affordable modern flight management systems with precision GPS approach capability that can display on the existing EFIS. Avidyne has a solution with its Atlas retrofit FMS and it was showing the system at the 2022 NBAA-BACE convention in Orlando, […]

In this podcast recorded at the 2022 NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE), Cirrus Aircraft senior vice president for sales and marketing Ben Kowalski talks with AVweb’s Kate O’Connor about how the Vision Jet program has developed since the model earned its FAA type certificate in 2016.

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.