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The National Transportation Safety Board this week formally recommended that the FAA require operators to comply with an existing service bulletin affecting Eurocopter model AS-350-BA helicopters in the wake of a 2004 accident that injured three. The accident, which involved a television news operation on May 4, destroyed the helicopter and resulted from a loss […]

Two non-U.S. airframers this month announced their respective first-ever sales in third-party countries, providing further evidence of business aviation’s increasingly global reach. Our first success story comes courtesy of Switzerland’s Pilatus, which announced its first delivery of a PC-12 turboprop single to Brazil. OceanAir Txi Areo, its exclusive dealer for Brazil, which was appointed in […]

While Raytheon would love to sell you a re-engined King Air 90, they’re just as happy selling single-engine trainers to the military. Earlier this month, the company announced it had begun producing the 300th copy of the T-6A Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) aircraft, which both the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy use […]

If the hype surrounding VLJs — including their pricing, performance, reliability and automation — is any indication, companies marketing non-VLJ turbine airplanes in the sub-$3-million price range may have to come up with innovative ways to add value and retain customers. Which has a lot to do with Raytheon’s latest offering, the Beechcraft King Air […]

Blaming supplier delays — not regulatory issues — Eclipse Aviation late last month formally announced a delay in certifying its Eclipse 500 very light jet (VLJ). Even though the Eclipse program is one of the best-financed and best-managed to come from a start-up company in recent years, the delay was not a surprise: Eclipse officials […]

After slightly more than two years with the company, Bill Boisture last week resigned his position as president of NetJets, the U.S.s premiere fractional operator. According to a company statement, Boisture will continue to work for NetJets as a consultant under a long-term agreement. That statement added that W. Boisture & Associates LLC — a […]

Spectrum Aeronautical, LLC, last Saturday successfully flew its new Spectrum 33 twinjet for the first time from the company’s facility at Spanish Fork, Utah, marking the next step in a development program that was largely unknown until its formal announcement at last year’s NBAA annual convention. The Spectrum 33 is a lightweight bizjet built using […]

The next issue of AVweb‘s BizAVflash will be e-mailed to you on Jan. 11. From all of us working on the BizAVflash for AVweb, we extend our best holiday wishes. See you then…

The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) this week formally recognized Senior Manager, Office & Support Services Linda M. Eaton for her 25 years of service with the association. According to NBAA, since 1980 when she was first hired, its membership has more than tripled and the number of staff almost quintupled, from 12 to 65. […]

What do you call a Beech Model 58 Baron when it’s carrying a Garmin G1000 integrated avionics system? If you’re Raytheon, you call it a G58 Baron, the new prefix letter complying with the company’s recent name change to its venerable 36-series Bonanza, the G36. Raytheon last week announced it had obtained FAA type certification […]