Business Aviation

It would appear cooler heads are now negotiating the transition of East Hampton’s airport from a public to private prior permission required facility and the date has been pushed back a few months. The resort town’s board of supervisors have now set May 19 to go private and say the airport won’t have instrument procedures […]

After five years of selling and shedding assets, slashing its workforce and paring its business down to its most profitable core, Bombardier is back in the black and considering a production boost. The company delivered more than 120 of its long-range, large-cabin business jets in 2021 and expects to do better in 2022. “Looking ahead, […]

The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) has launched a new coalition aimed at bringing leaders of business aircraft owner-pilot organizations together. According to the association, the NBAA Owner Pilot Association Coalition (NBAA OPAC) will “tackle top concerns for business aviators and explore opportunities to grow the owner-operator community.” The group initially plans to focus on […]

Textron Aviation marked a new milestone on Tuesday with the delivery of the 8,000th Cessna Citation business jet. The aircraft, a Citation Longitude, was handed over to lawn and garden care company Scotts Miracle-Gro during a special delivery ceremony at Textron Aviation headquarters in Wichita, Kansas. The first Citation was delivered by Cessna in 1972. […]

Airbus Corporate Jets (ACJ) has successfully delivered the first ACJ TwoTwenty business jet to launch customer Comlux. The aircraft is headed to Comlux’s facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, for cabin completion before its planned entry into service in early 2023. Comlux is slated to outfit the first 15 TwoTwenty cabins at its Indianapolis completion center. “The […]

MyGoFlight CEO Charlie Schneider is being remembered as a prolific inventor, innovative businessman and dedicated family man after dying Friday from injuries suffered in a plane crash on Thursday. Schneider was flying his company Cirrus SR22 G3 Turbo near McGhee-Tyson Airport in Knoxville, Tennessee, when it went down on a construction site and was consumed […]

Honda Aircraft Company has handed over its 200th HondaJet since deliveries began in December 2015, according to an announcement from the company on Thursday. The model flew for the first time in 2003 and received its FAA type certificate in 2015. Certified in more than 13 countries, the worldwide HondaJet fleet has logged over 98,000 […]

Following the recent conclusion of its Series B funding round, Shenzhen, China-based Amber Aviation has announced a partnership with NetJets that will include the transfer of up to 20 aircraft from NetJets to Amber. The aircraft, which will be transferred over the next two years, will be operated by Amber Aviation as part of new […]

Gulfstream Aerospace has announced plans to build a new aircraft service center at Arizona’s Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (AZA). The 225,000-square-foot maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility represents a more than $70 million investment for the company. According to Gulfstream, the center will feature a fuel farm with a dedicated sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) supply, low-flow […]

The recently introduced ACJ TwoTwenty business jet from Airbus Corporate Jets (ACJ) is on track enter into service in the first quarter of 2023, the company reported at the 2021 NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE). ACJ also announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with its first U.S. customer for one […]