Business Aviation

Textron Aviation announced today that the Cessna Citation Longitude “super-midsize” jet has received its FAA type certificate. In a probably excusable bit of hyperbole, Textron Aviation’s President and CEO Ron Draper proclaimed that “the Longitude revolution starts now.” The Longitude received its provisional TC in late 2018. According to Cessna, the Longitude test fleet amassed […]

Airbus expects the worldwide passenger and freighter aircraft fleet to more than double in the next twenty years, the company said in its Global Market Forecast (GMF) for 2019-2038. The 2019 annual report, titled “Cities, Airports & Aircraft,” forecasts a need for 39,210 new aircraft—25,000 to support a projected annual air traffic growth of 4.3 […]

Textron Aviation is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the inaugural flight of the Cessna Citation 500 business jet this week. The Citation 500, then called the Fanjet 500, was launched in October 1968. The prototype flew for the first time on September 15, 1969, at Cessna’s facility in Wichita, Kansas, and the aircraft received its […]

Gulfstream held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of its new maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility last Friday. The facility, called the Gulfstream East Campus, is located at the company’s headquarters in Savannah, Georgia, on the east side of Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport (SAV). According to Gulfstream, it undertook the project in order […]

Boeing is still looking to return the 737 MAX to service by the end of the year, according to statements made by Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg at an investment conference in Laguna Niguel, California, on Wednesday. The aircraft was grounded last March in the wake of the crashes of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March […]

French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation announced the appointment of Thierry Betbeze as CEO of its subsidiary, Dassault Falcon Jet (DFJ), on Wednesday. DFJ, which is headquartered in Teterboro, New Jersey, oversees the marketing, sales and support of Falcon business jets in the Americas. Betbeze is replacing DFJ CEO Jean Rosanvallon, who is stepping down after […]

Sierra Nevada Corporation subsidiary 328 Support Services GmbH (328SSG) announced on Wednesday that it has formed new aircraft original equipment manufacturer (OEM) DRA GmbH to build an upgraded version of the Dornier 328 twin-engine turboprop, called the D328NEU. To that end, 328SSG and U.S.-based Sierra Nevada Corporation signed a memorandum of understanding with German federal […]

Embraer’s Praetor 500 midsize business jet has received its type certificate from Brazil’s Civil Aviation Authority (Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil—ANAC), the company announced at the Latin American Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (LBACE) in São Paulo, Brazil, on Tuesday. The Honeywell HTF7500E-powered Praetor 500 has a range of 3,340 NM, high-speed cruise of 466 […]

Gulfstream announced that it delivered the first of its new G600 jets on Thursday. An unidentified U.S. customer took delivery of the aircraft at Gulfstream’s headquarters in Savannah, Georgia. As previously reported by AVweb, the G600 received its FAA type and production certificates on June 28, 2019. “We always strive to exceed our customers’ expectations, […]

Australia has grounded all 63 of the domestically built GippsAero GA8 Airvans registered in that country and EASA is allowing ferry permits only in Europe after a fatal crash in Sweden killed all nine on board. The aircraft was on a skydiving flight. Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority suspended GA8 operations for 15 days starting […]