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The surging business jet market has helped cash-strapped Bombardier recover from its post-9/11 problems and the Canadian planemaker is ramping up production. According to the Toronto Globe and Mail, Bombardier sold 212 business jets in its last fiscal year and orders continue to pour in. It’s also doing well in the regional jet market and […]

PlaneSmart!, a Dallas-based fractional company inked a deal with Cirrus Design on Tuesday to replace its fleet of Cirrus SR22 G2 models with new G3 aircraft. The deal was announced a couple of months ago but the paperwork was signed Tuesday. The new aircraft will have every option available on the G3, including air conditioning […]

The worlds biggest operator of Boeing Business Jets just got bigger. Royal Jet, of the United Arab Emirates, recently added a fifth BBJ to its inventory. In now has the ultra-luxurious and long-legged (5,500 nm) customized 737-700s flying all over the world and the aircraft are busy. Each of our BBJs is typically flying around […]

Jets.com, a Quincy, Mass. charter company has teamed with Carbonfund.org to offer what it says is a way to neutralize their effect on global warming when they fly. Jets.com will charge an tax-deductible fee on the charter rate, which it will pass on to Carbonfund.org to invest in reforestation projects. “Providing private jet clients with […]

NetJets says it has so many aircraft spread all over the world it no longer needs to charge ferry fees for travel to many of its overseas destinations. It had a long-standing policy of not charging for repositioning aircraft in the continental U.S. With the largest fleet and more aircraft types than any other fractional […]

The owner of Indias Kingfisher Airlines is reportedly planning to invest $200 million of his own money into Epic Aircraft. Vijay Mallya told the Indian newspaper the Mint that he was is in discussions with Epic but didnt elaborate. The Mint cited unnamed sources who said the $200 million infusion would give Mallya a controlling […]

A passenger taking her first ride in a 1959 Piper TriPacer jumped from the cockpit as it bounced down the runway during the third emergency landing of the day, the Modesto (Calif.) Bee reported on Monday. Witnesses told the Bee that pilot William Supan, 57, landed at Modesto Airport on Saturday afternoon with smoke curling […]

The Government Accountability Office made a concerted effort this summer to figure out what’s up with very light jets — will swarms of them overwhelm the National Airspace System? Will they rain from the sky, ineptly piloted by untrained amateurs? Does the FAA have a plan to handle the costs of dealing with them? And […]

Searchers are combing an area of western Nevada looking for adventurer Steve Fossett, who was reported missing in his Super Decathlon early this morning. The Nevada Record-Courier is reporting that Fossett left the Hilton Ranch in the Smith Valley in the aircraft Monday evening. It’s not known where he was heading. Nevada Civil Air Patrol […]

Phillip Casciola has been sentenced to 22 years in prison in part for failing to deliver merchandise sold through his web site Jetbroker.org, a company that specialized in selling corporate jets and aircraft parts. Authorities spent two years investigating 51-year-old Casciola and concluded that he had, within the past few years, defrauded customers out of […]