Business Aviation

Wheels Up lost more than half of its stock market value on Thursday after The Wall Street Journal reported it had hired a law firm specializing in restructuring of companies in financial distress. The company issued a statement say it’s “working with a number of advisors and industry participants around securing new strategic investments, raising […]

Ed Bolen, president and CEO of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), recently sent a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee addressing FAA rest and duty requirements for Part 135 (charter) pilots. In particular, the letter addressed so-called “tail-end ferry legs,” flights flown at the end of a duty day […]

Textron Aviation has announced that the 100th production unit of its flagship Cessna Citation Longitude business jet has rolled off of the production line. The aircraft is slated to be delivered to an unnamed customer later this year. The Citation Longitude flew for the first time in 2016, receiving its FAA type certificate in September […]

A group of between 80 and 100 environmental activists pushed through security gates at Geneva International Airport in Switzerland today (May 23) to protest the ongoing European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE). Wearing yellow high-visibility vests that resembled those worn by security personnel, protestors breached the gates surrounding the EBACE static display ramp at […]

Bombardier has completed the first phase of testing on its EcoJet blended-wing-body aircraft research project. The company reported that it has seen positive results during the “design optimization loops and initial flight test campaign,” which used a small-scale model approximately 7 percent the size of a large business jet. The second phase of the EcoJet […]

Textron Aviation officially introduced the new Cessna Citation Ascend business jet on Monday ahead of the 2023 European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, Switzerland. The next in the Citation 560XL series, the Ascend adds new cockpit and cabin designs along with a number of performance improvements. The model is currently slated to […]

Bothell, Washington-based Greenpoint Technologies will show a 1/20 scale model of its interior-completion design for the Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) 777X for the first time at the upcoming European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) trade show in Geneva, Switzerland. The cutaway model will feature Greenpoint’s V-VIP (very, very important person) Zen interior concept, “an […]

Boeing announced on Monday that it has named Joe Benson president of its Boeing Business Jets (BBJ) VIP jet division. He takes over from Erika Pearson, who recently became vice president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Sales and Marketing in Southeast Asia & Oceania. Benson joined Boeing in 2010 and previously served as BBJ’s deputy to […]

Dassault is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its business jet line, the first of which, called the Mystère 20 before being rebranded the Falcon 20, completed its inaugural flight on May 4, 1963. To date, the line includes 27 different model types with more than 2,700 aircraft delivered. Dassault noted that its bestselling model has […]

There’s been a shakeup in the executive suites at charter membership pioneer Wheels Up as it works through financial and operational woes. Chief Marketing Officer Lee Applebaum, who held the post since 2020, left the company on Tuesday. According to Private Jet Card Comparisons, Wheels Up said he was leaving to pursue “personal and entrepreneurial […]