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In the Oct. 12 issue of AVweb‘s Business AVflash, we erred in our “Dude, Where’s My Bizjet?” story when we listed the identifier for the Gwinnett County Airport/Briscoe Field in Lawrenceville, Ga., as “LVL.” We know better — it’s “LZU” — and can only plead having spent too much time at high altitude. That excuse […]

Flight Options, the fractional operator affiliated with Raytheon, this month named Bob Tyler as its new vice president, flight operations. Tyler joins Flight Options from TAG Aviation, where he most recently served as vice president, flight operations and standards. Additionally, he has held positions at Japan Airlines, Eastern Air Lines and Flight Sciences International Inc. […]

Adam Aircraft this week announced it has named Shelly S. Simi as the company’s new public affairs/media relations representative. Simi, who previously served as vice president of communications for the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), will assist Adam Aircraft in broadening the companys communications and media relations activities. “With more than 17 years of experience […]

Just in time for next month’s National Business Aviation Association annual meeting and convention, Gulfstream announced earlier in October some new city-pair speed records for its G550 bizjet. The new flights bring to 18 the total number of records Gulfstream claims. For one of them, a privately owned G550 established a new record between So […]

Just in time for the winter flying season, Sikorsky Aircraft announced this month the FAA has certified the company’s S-92 helicopter, when equipped with the new Rotor Ice Protection System (RIPS), for flight in known icing conditions. According to Sikorsky, the S-92 thus becomes the first helicopter directly certified by the FAA to the newest […]

An all-but-forgotten product of the 1980s-era Burt Rutan-inspired canard-based design for business turboprops celebrated its 100th delivery this month. And, no, it wasn’t a Beech/Raytheon Starship, which has since been sort of “decommissioned” by the company after only 53 examples took to the skies. Instead, it was the Piaggio Avanti P.180 that has finally achieved […]

Eclipse Aviation said this week it is launching a national tour — its first — to showcase the company’s Eclipse 500 very light jet (VLJ). For the tour, Eclipse will take one of its prototypes, N506EA, to a series of seven cities during November. At those stops, the “FAA-conforming VLJ” will be on static display […]

Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corporation (SSAC) said earlier this month that its to-be-certified SJ30-2 light bizjet has met or exceeded all of the company’s performance specifications. Those parameters include speed, range, altitude and pressurization. The company’s numbers include high-speed cruise of Mach 0.83, which SSAC says is faster than all light business jets in production, and […]

Both the FAA and Bombardier this month celebrated delivery of a brand-new Global 5000 bizjet to the agency’s fleet at the William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, N.J. The new long-range jet — which was completed by St. Louis-based Midcoast Aviation with a unique interior designed for a wide range of future special-mission […]