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The boom in business jet sales shows no signs of abating and the expected influx of very light jets has barely begun. The General Aviation Manufacturers Association third quarter figures last week and there was a staggering 20 percent increase in the number of bizjets sold in the first nine months of the year compared […]

A group of 19 pilots and government officials met at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Monday, to call on the government to investigate reports of unidentified flying objects — that’s right, UFOs. All of the pilots said they have had an unexplained encounter with something in the sky, and the government seems […]

Here’s a story that could make you look around in the posh cabin of your Cirrus or Cessna and think, hmm, this is pretty shabby. Isn’t it time to upgrade to a personal aircraft that has room for a few king-size beds and a hundred or so of your best pals? That is apparently the […]

Embraers foray into the business jet market looks like a good move as it counts up the orders from the Dubai Air Show. The Brazilian planemaker took in 63 orders in the first couple of days of the show. Most were for Phenom 100, 300 and Legacy 600 business jets, but there were also some […]

Middle Eastern airlines went on a shopping spree at the 10th Dubai Air Show, currently underway, and Airbus appears to have regained its position as the top-selling commercial planemaker. Airbus says its taken a total of 290 orders at the show while Boeing was at 153 on Tuesday. The redesigned A350 is proving especially popular […]

Project Phoenix announced a way to obtain a large business jet for a fraction of the time and money that the leading manufacturers are offering at the Dubai Air Show, as long as you dont mind a few thousand cycles or more on the airframe. The company is buying Bombardier CRJ-200 regional jets on the […]

Tarek Bin Laden, a Saudi businessman and half-brother to Osama Bin Laden, was the first to put a deposit on an Aerion supersonic business jet when positions went on sale at the Dubai Air Show on Monday. Reno-based Aerion has yet to start work on a flying example of its Mach 1.6, eight-to-12-passenger aircraft but […]

S/N002 — that’s Quest Aircraft serial number two, the secondproduction KODIAK aircraft and the first customer aircraft — hasflown and will be delivered in early December. The ten-place G1000-equipped, three-glass-paneled, PT6-powered KODIAK can take off inunder 700 feet at its full gross weight of 6,750 pounds carrying a fulluseful load of 3,450 pounds and drive […]

Heavy, wet snow and strong winds were present when a Bombardier Global 5000 business jet’s landing gear collapsed after the aircraft apparently landed short of the runway at a private airport at a golf resort in Nova Scotia on Sunday. None of the eight passengers and two crew was seriously hurt, although some were checked […]

Amid an overall decline in piston aircraft sales, Diamond Aircraft isreporting a year-over-year growth in sales of 17 percent, bolsteredby a double-digit rise in deliveries of both DA40 Diamond Star andDA42 Twin Star aircraft. According to numbers last week released bythe General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), Diamond’sfigures offer a sharp contrast to the piston market […]