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Bombardier announced last week it has completed relocating two of its strategic business jet operations to London Farnborough Airport. According to the announcement, the company’s regional sales headquarters for Europe, as well as its Skyjet International headquarters, began operations within TAG Aviations new Farnborough facilities in mid-March 2006. In addition, the company has also moved […]

Gulfstream Aerospace last week officially opened its new Research and Development Center near its Savannah, Ga., headquarters. The new facility is part of the seven-year, $300 million, long-range expansion plan the company announced March 6, and is expected to generate 1,100 additional jobs. To meet an immediate need for office space, Gulfstream is leasing the […]

Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation Services (LBAS) last week announced it has opened a temporary maintenance station at the historic Berlin-Tempelhof Airport and is now offering line maintenance services for all Bombardier Learjet, Challenger and Global business jet operators, including base maintenance for Learjet aircraft, at the citys downtown airport. The new maintenance and service station — […]

Cessna said this month it is developing a proprietary, interactive, 3-D aircraft specification software system combining engineering data with customer configuration options to provide real-time visualization of proposed changes to the customer, as well as cost and weight changes to the aircraft. Working in cooperation with Anark Corporation, a leading 3-D application solution provider, Cessna […]

German airframer GROB is still in the testing and pre-certification phases of developing its planned SPn Utility Jet, but the company recently announced a series of upgrades — to the light jet’s interior, equipment and avionics — designed to increase the type’s flexibility and capability. GROB says its customers can now choose a new six-seat […]

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Gulfstream on May 3 said one of its G150 flight-test aircraft established the first G150 city-pair speed record, flying 1,575 nm between Tel Aviv, Israel, to Geneva, Switzerland, in 3 hours and 40 minutes. The G150 took off from the Ben Gurion International Airport at 11:00 a.m. local time on May 1. It flew at […]

Embraer had a good EBACE. In addition to announcing its Lineage 1000 large bizjet, the Brazilian manufacturer last week said a start-up European executive jet service has placed an order for 50 Phenom 100 jets, with options for an additional 50 aircraft. The service, Swiss-based JetBird, is poised to launch a new pan-European low-cost executive […]

Cessna last week said it had added six additional Citation field service engineers to its support team. According to the company, the latest move is part of its plans to have a total of 26 field service engineers around the world, along with 48 customer service engineers based at its Wichita, Kan., headquarters by the […]

Jet Aviation made a splash at EBACE, also, by announcing Skylliance, a new European charter program consisting of selected high-quality air charter operators and aircraft that operate under the same stringent safety and service standards defined by Jet Aviation. We wanted to set another industry benchmark, said Jet Aviations Martin Bernegger, senior vice president and […]