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In our coverage two weeks ago of a fatal crash involving a Cessna Citation operated as an aeromedical flight, two errors crept in. First, we labeled the Citation as a “Citation Bravo,” based on early general-media reports. Due to an editing oversight, we failed to go back and correct our early version before it was […]

Flight Options, Raytheon’s fractional operation, last week said it is opening a new maintenance facility at McCarran International Airport (LAS) in Las Vegas, Nevada. The new base will employ over 75 maintenance professionals, dedicated to servicing Flight Options’ fleet of over 140 aircraft. The annual payroll for the facility will exceed $6.5 million. Maintenance performed […]

Signature Flight Support yesterday said it will conduct a grand opening ceremony tomorrow for its renovated FBO facility at the General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport (BOS) at Boston, Mass. The ceremony will commemorate the official opening of the facility after a $13 million renovation. In a press release, the company touted the modernized building […]

EADS Socata’s board of directors last week appointed Jean-Michel Lonard as the new chairman and chief executive officer of EADS Socata. He succeeds Stphane Mayer, who was appointed CEO of ATR, a joint venture of Alenia Aeronautica (Finmeccanica Group) and EADS. In the wake of Mayer’s departure, EADS Socata’s board expressed its appreciation of his […]

Not that most of us with shorter-range aircraft will ever use it, but a new FBO is being developed at the Honolulu International Airport (PHNL). Castle & Cooke last week said they recently acquired the former Circle Rainbow building and renovations are underway. The facility will be the company’s first aviation facility in Hawaii and, […]

Basking in the glow of delivering its first two Falcon 7X trijets, Dassault wasted no time in looking forward to building a new aircraft and improving its infrastructure. Last week, the company announced a new round of expansion at its Little Rock (Ark.) Completion Center, which will include an additional 116,000 square feet of production, […]

The first production version of Dassault’s long-awaited new trijet, the Falcon 7X, entered service last week after completion at the company’s Little Rock, Ark., facility. Its first in-service flight was made on June 13 from Little Rock to Le Bourget for the Paris Air Show, a hop it made without stopping. Prior to the flight, […]

Embraer last Saturday rolled out its first assembled Phenom 100 very light jet (VLJ), joining an already-crowded field in this much-hyped market category. The event marked completion of assembly and systems-integration phases; the prototype will now go to the paint booth and then begin a series of ground tests over the next few weeks in […]

Of course, who needs an SSBJ when you can just buy a combination airplane and space ship, escape the atmosphere, go as fast as you want — within the physical laws of orbital mechanics, of course — and then land on a runway like nothing else happened. That’s the operational plan behind the new Astrium […]

Aerion, the guys working on putting together a supersonic business jet (SSBJ), is at this week’s Paris Air Show in force, working with potential suppliers and promoting their project. The Reno, Nev.-based company, formed in 2002, says it is “aggressively pursuing the development of a supersonic business jet,” but remains in the early stages of […]