Business Aviation

Hard on the heels of breaking ground on its U.S. assembly facility, Embraer delivered the first Legacy 500, its new midsize executive jet. The Legacy 500 has six-foot, flat-floor cabin and boasts a cabin altitude at cruise of 6000 feet. Equipped with eight passenger seats, the seats can be converted into four beds. The jet […]

Today, Embraer began construction of a major addition to its Melbourne Airport, Florida campus-a 236,000-square-foot assembly complex for its Legacy 450 and 500 aircraft. It will consist of four new buildings: an assembly hangar, paint facility, completion center and delivery center. The new construction, expected to be completed in 2016, will more than double the […]

For those who thought Amazon.com was not serious about its plans to deliver packages with Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), its petition to the FAA for an exemption to test them outdoors near Seattle, Washington, has been pending since July 9. With the FAA’s recent approval of some petitions for exemption for UAS in the movie […]

The latest version of the flying car from AeroMobil, “3.0,” referred to as the Flying Roadster, will be displayed to the public for the first time at the Pioneers Festival in Vienna, Austria, on Oct. 29. Developed in Slovakia, the sleek two-place prototype evolved from the AeroMobil 2.5, which has flown. Powered by a Rotax […]

AVweb’s weekly search of the news in the world of aviation turned up a new exhibit exploring the future of space travel, a major award for Civil Air Patrol, a partnership to support the Unmanned Aircraft System Community and approval of a new flight simulator for the Socata TBM-series aircraft. Space Center Houston’s newest exhibit, […]

Airbus celebrated the first flight of its new A320neo Thursday at its facility in Toulouse, France. Powered by a pair of Pratt & Whitney PurePower PW1100G-JM engines, the aircraft flew for 2.5 hours performing initial system checks and began the process of expanding the flight and performance envelope, reaching a maximum altitude of 26,500 feet. […]

At Jacksonville, Florida, this week, Sierra Nevada and Embraer took the wraps off the first A29 Tucano to be made in the U.S. It’s the first of 20 airplanes on their way to Afghanistan for that country’s rebuilding air force. view on YouTube

I suspect if you could somehow get a full overview of the number and type of unmanned aircraft in use today and the companies involved in their manufacture, the response would be: Wow, I never imagined. I am constantly running into people in the aviation business who are directly or indirectly involved in UAS projects. […]

It hasn’t been a quiet week in aviation news-our survey uncovered certification testing of the Falcon 7X at the world’s highest airport, SAFE Teacher Grant Awards, a big sale of Embraer E175 jets and a company that’s developing a way to surf behind an airplane. The long-range Falcon 7X will soon become the first business […]

At an investor conference hosted by Morgan Stanley this week, Boeing’s CEO Ray Conner announced that Boeing is looking to increase 737 production to a whopping 52 a month as soon as 2018. Boeing is currently pushing 42 of its top-selling airliners out the door each month and had previously said that its production goal […]