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Charter “card” programs, allowing customers to pre-pay for their travel in exchange for reduced rates and other services, have grown very popular among companies and individuals with the need to fly but lacking the resources or the will to buy their own business aircraft. Most charter brokers offer them, as do many of the fractional […]

Signature Flight Support this month celebrated the grand opening of its new executive terminal at Indianapolis International Airport (IND), just in time for the NCAA Final Four basketball tournament, which is being held in that city beginning April 1. “Indianapolis has the reputation of being an elite city for hosting world-class events, and Signature’s new […]

Gulfstream Aerospace earlier this month hired James S. Ross as director of its pre-owned aircraft sales operation in the western U.S. and Canada, Central and South America, Australia and Asia. Ross most recently served as a regional vice president for TAG Aviation. Prior to that service, he was the senior vice president for ExcelAire Service […]

Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corporation (SSAC) last week announced it selected Stevens Aviation as the provider of the company’s first North American Authorized Service Facilities for the SJ30-2 business jet. The SJ30-2 — which is close to FAA certification — is a high-performance light jet with a range of more than 2,500 nm and a cruise […]

Raytheon Aircraft Company (RAC) this week said it named two existing employees to new positions as it backfilled a newly vacant slot. Under the changes, Randy Groom has been appointed president, Global Customer Service and Support, and Brad Hatt assumes the role of president, Global Commercial Sales for Beechcraft and Hawker aircraft. The changes come […]

Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC) on March 16 delivered the first PW615F engine to Cessna Aircraft Company for the new Citation Mustang business jet. The engine will be installed on the first Citation Mustang to be built at Cessna’s assembly facility in Independence, Kan. The PW615, rated at 1,350 lbs. of thrust and featuring a […]

Swiss-based Jet Aviation Group said last week it had completed the acquisition process for its purchase of U.S.-based Midcoast Aviation from the Sabreliner Corporation. Terms of the acquisition, which was first formally announced in January and finalized on March 20, were not disclosed. Midcoast Aviation is a well-known and well-respected full-service corporate jet aircraft maintenance, […]

Earlier this month, Brazilian airframer Embraer announced it and the company’s prime component suppliers had completed the initial design and engineering phase for the Phenom 100 light jet announced last year. Embraer calls this progress “completion of the Joint Definition Phase,” which the company said was largely conducted without paper on a conventional drafting table. […]

The newest addition to Cessna’s Citation bizjet stable took off for its first flight last week, marking a major milestone on the way to FAA certification. The event continues Cessna’s relentless, machine-like ability to announce, certify and deliver to customers new airplanes on a pre-defined schedule. In the case of the Encore+, the type was […]

Some say there are two kinds of people: those who want to be able to check their e-mail or AVweb‘s latest news while at FL450 over Kansas, and those who don’t. Until recently, the technology to access the Internet was both slow in coming and slow in operation — it probably had something to do […]