Business Aviation

Asked during the company’s NBAA-BACE press conference about efforts in France to add regulations and taxes to business aviation operations, Dassault Aviation President Eric Trappier was candid in his assessment of the movement, saying it was based more on politics than environmental science. With Dassault Groupe (including its vaunted electronics business division Dassault Systemes as […]

Gulfstream’s latest model, the G800, is making its NBAA-BACE debut this year at Orlando (Florida) Executive Airport’s static display line. The G800 is the newest (and largest/fastest/longest-range) member of a wide selection of Gulfstream designs. At a press briefing on Oct. 17, the day before the opening of the show, company President Mark Burns expressed […]

At Dassault Aviation’s NBAA-BACE press briefing today (Oct. 17) in Orlando, Florida, CEO Eric Trappier opened his comments with an expression of empathy for Florida in the wake of Hurricane Ian and admiration for the courage of Ukraine and its allies in the ongoing war. He also acknowledged that, based in part on those events, […]

Airbus Corporate Helicopters (ACH) has delivered its first Aston Martin Edition ACH130 helicopter to a U.S customer, the company announced at NBAA-BACE 2022. Originally intending to produce just 15 of the special edition model, which features interior and exterior designs created by Aston Martin, ACH said last May that it was planning to continue production […]

Honda Aircraft Company announced the HondaJet Elite II on opening day at NBAA-BACE in Orlando, Florida. Hideto Yamasaki, Honda’s president and CEO, said at its press conference that the improvements made to the latest HondaJet are the result of focused market and geographical research. There are currently 225 HondaJet models in service and the latest, […]

Honeywell’s tone-setting business aviation forecast will set a positive undercurrent for this week’s NBAA-BACE convention, which starts Tuesday in Orlando. The forecast, always released on the eve of the big convention, says forecast deliveries by business aircraft manufacturers have increased by a whopping 15 percent over the next decade compared to last year’s predictions. More […]

Honda Aircraft Company announced on Monday that it has added a new upgrade package for its HondaJet Elite aircraft. The package allows HondaJet Elite owners to add features introduced with the newer Elite S model, includes performance improvements such as a 200-pound maximum takeoff weight increase, additional 120 NM of range and the company’s advanced […]

Hartzell Propeller will be highly visible at this year’s National Business Aviation Association’s NBAA-BACE trade show, running Oct. 18 – 20, in Orlando, Florida. In addition to having one of its swept-airfoil five-blade structural composite propellers for Daher’s TBM 700/800 and 900 series aircraft on display at its booth, Hartzell will also be displaying a […]

Textron has teamed up with California-based ZeroAvia to develop a hydrogen-electric powered Caravan. The companies want to get an STC for the design, which will carry hydrogen in a wing tank to run ZeroAvia’s ZA600 powertrain in place of the PT6 that powers standard Caravans. The two companies said in a joint release that carrying […]

The bodies of six of 10 victims of an unusual floatplane crash in Washington State have been recovered, as has 80 percent of the wreckage of the turbine-powered De Havilland Otter. The Northwest Seaplanes aircraft suddenly plunged into Puget Sound on a flight from Friday Harbor to Renton on Sept. 4. The Navy has positioned […]