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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 […]

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Actually, NetJets is trying to grab customers away from its competition and its latest efforts involve publishing two new guides, “Private Aviation 101” and “How to Pay for Your NetJets Share.” The new publications “supplement and enhance” — according to NetJets — the company’s newly revised “Buyers Guide to Fractional Aircraft Ownership” and “The Aircraft […]

The latest addition to Signature Flight Support’s growing network of fixed-base operations (FBOs) is the former Million Air facility at the Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport (TRM) in Thermal, Calif. The newly acquired facility is the chains second location in the popular Palm Springs resort area, joining Signatures operation at Palm Springs International Airport (PSP). The […]

Citing 2005 as the best year yet for sales of its PC-12 single-engine turboprop, Pilatus Aircraft announced late last month that the company delivered 80 PC-12 business turboprop aircraft to retail customers around the world. The 80 deliveries were comprised of 61 aircraft in North America, 10 in Europe, 4 in South Africa, 2 in […]

Gulfstream Aerospace this week said it appointed Gerard Schkolnik as director of its supersonic technology programs. In his new position, Schkolnik will direct the companys research of structural concepts and advanced materials, propulsion integration and supersonic aerodynamics as they apply to supersonic flight. He will also continue the company’s research into sonic boom suppression and […]

Adam Aircraft last week announced that Craig Johnson has joined the firm as Chief Operating Officer. Johnson, who comes to the company from Northrop Grumman, AlliedSignal, McDonnell Douglas and General Dynamics, was brought in to meet what Adam Aircraft called “the demand of the company’s strong growth” as it accelerates A500 production and starts delivering […]

Eclipse Aviation on March 1 said it has begun building the first Eclipse 500 jet for delivery to a customer. In a ceremony witnesses by a crowd of employees, the first customer, David Crowe, stepped up to engage the friction stir welding of one of his future jets cockpit side panels and to drill window […]