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While the crowds at this week’s NBAA Convention in Orlando, Fla., are busy out on the convention floor and on the flight line checking out all the latest and greatest technology, a lot is also going on in the meeting rooms, as movers and shakers get together to discuss issues of importance to the industry. […]

NBAA is one of the shows where major sales announcements are made, but there haven’t been that many at this year’s show. Hawker Beechcraft stepped out of that mold today with a $200 million announcement. Brazilian-based Lder Signatures S.A. has ordered 23 aircraft, covering the cross-section of jet products from the Wichita company. The major […]

In its element (and that’s pretty varied) there is no more highly-respected aircraft than the deHavilland DHC-6 Twin Otter. Made famous by the Antarctic rescue of a sick scientist in -75 temperatures, the high-wing twin has toiled for almost 40 years in some of the harshest (and most idyllic) environments on Earth. But the fleet […]

It’s a window on the world when the world isn’t cooperating and now it’s available as an after market enhancement for business, commercial and military aircraft. Elbit Kollsman has developed an add-on HUD that displays flight instrument information against an infrared image of the world outside when darkness and weather obscure that. Several customers are […]

One of Diamond Aircraft’s biggest customers for its D-Jet single-engine jet has been named its training partner for customers of the new jet. ATP (Air Transport Professionals), which has ordered 20 of the five-passenger aircraft, will do the transition training and type ratings for D-Jet customers. “The D-Jet is designed primarily for the owner/pilot market […]

Bombardier executives have joined the chorus of optimism that seems to defy the headlines outside the confines of the Orange County Convention Center. In a briefing for the media and financial analysts Tuesday, Bombardier corner suite executives said that while some softening of the business aviation market will occur in the next year or two, […]

It seems likely that Ed Swearingen’s dream will come true as the SJ30 that he’s devoted much of his life to has caught the eye of some folks with practically bottomless pockets. Officials of Emivest, the United Arab Emirates company that bought 80 percent of Sino Swearingen in a deal that closed two months ago, […]

Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. If you’re going on a 4,000 nm trip, what do you need? (Besides a state-of-the-art airframe, engines and avionics.) According to Cessna Columbus customers, it’s storage and leg room. Cindy Halsey, Cessna’s vice […]

When AAI Acquisitions bought the assets of Adam Aircraft at fire sale prices in March, the industry wasn’t quite sure what to make of the sale. But AAI CEO Jack Braly told NBAA reporters this week that the company is “picking up where Adam left off” with certification of the unique twin-boom jet claimed for […]

Bombardier says the first 400 Learjet 85s will be built at a new plant in Mexico, but finishing and delivery preparation will be done in Wichita, necessitating expansion of the already-jammed Kansas facilities. Learjet President David Coleal told a news conference at the National Business Aviation Association convention in Orlando that up to 1,200 people […]