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The House has unanimously passed a bill that would raise the mandatory retirement age for airline pilots to 65. According to The Associated Press (the actual bill was not available on the Library of Congress Web site at this writing) the proposed legislation, which still has to pass through the Senate, would bring the U.S. […]

Business analyst Frost and Sullivan says there’s no end in sight to increased corporate profits so business jet manufacturers can expect to ride the current boom for some time. In fact, corporations are so confident about future profitability, they’re ordering jets in anticipation of having the money to pay for them. “Previously, the increase in […]

Adam Aircraft says it’s confident its A700 light jet will be certified by the end of next year, following the FAA’s granting of the first Type Inspection Authority for the program. Adam got its first type conforming A700 in the air in the spring and the TIA means that hours flown by FAA inspectors now […]

There aren’t many bizjets with short, unimproved field capability, and that’s what attracted PlaneSense to the Grob spn. The fractional arm of New Hampshire-based Alpha Aviation has ordered 25 Grob spn business jets and hopes to have the first one by the end of next year. The company was founded in 1996 and found a […]

One of the bottlenecks Eclipse is dealing with is a backlog of training for its customers as their new jets roll off the assembly line. In a recent letter to customers, Eclipse CEO Vern Raburn said it will be sometime in the spring before the company can “close the gap between customer aircraft delivery and […]

Flight Options now has three wholly owned private jets in its fractional fleet through a system it calls its Fractional Interchange Management (FIM) Program. Under the program, aircraft owners turn over management of their planes to Flight Options, which adds them to the fleet of more than 130 fractionally owned aircraft under Flight Options’ management. […]

DayJet has added 28 destinations to its network across the Southeast based on what it says is strong customer demand for its “per-seat, on-demand” service using Eclipse 500 aircraft. The 28 destinations, mostly secondary airports in cities that don’t have much scheduled service, can be selected as long as the start point or end point […]

Aerion Corp. took its first order for a supersonic business jet just a few weeks ago, at the Dubai Air Show, but announced on Tuesday that it has now secured orders for 19 jets at $80 million each, totaling over $1.5 billion in commitments. “Considering our marketing effort has barely begun, this is a tremendous […]

The annual Sport Aviation Expo, focusing on the Light Sport Aircraft world, is coming up soon — Jan. 17 to 20 in Sebring, Fla. — and exhibitors are starting to crow about the new products they’ll have on display. The fastest-selling LSA, the Flight Design CT, will be there in a new model that the […]

Col Pay, regarded as one of Australias “legendary” pilots in news reports from there, died last week in a crash while testing a new type of air tanker. Pay was test-flying an Air Tractor 802 air tanker, made in Olney, Texas, when it flipped on a lake. Pay, 75, was evaluating the aircraft, which was […]