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Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corp. (SSAC) last week announced reaching another milestone en route to FAA certification of its SJ30 medium-size business jet as Flight Test Aircraft serial number 0003 completed all of its required flight testing. Serial number 0003 is the youngest in the company’s fleet of three flight-test aircraft, and has accumulated more than […]

The experimental HondaJet created a great deal of interest and speculation when it made its first public appearance this summer at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, as we’ve reported. Now, with release of a video designed to enhance the company’s branding throughout the world, speculation on whether the company will build, certify and market the innovative bizjet […]

The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) announced earlier this month its 58th Annual Meeting & Convention will move from New Orleans, La., to Orlando, Fla. The announcement came in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Additionally, the dates for this year’s convention have changed; it will take place from Wednesday, Nov. 9 through Friday, Nov. 11, […]

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In our Aug. 17 issue of AVweb‘s BizAVflash, in an article about Bombardier’s plans to open a service center in Moscow, Russia, we wrote, “NetJets operates a number of Bombardier’s Global, Challenger and Learjet aircraft in its fleet.” In fact, NetJets does not operate any Bombardier aircraft; its fleet consists of offerings from Cessna, Raytheon, […]

Meanwhile, Gulfstream this week continued its “mine-is-bigger” sparring with other manufacturers, including Bombardier, by announcing that a Gulfstream G550 set another city-pair speed record: between Newark, N.J., and Tel Aviv, Israel. According to Gulfstream, the G550 flew the 5,031-nm route in 9 hours and 52 minutes, for an average cruise speed of Mach 0.86. Gulfstream […]

Gulfstream Aerospace announced yesterday it will add to the cockpit of its forthcoming G150 mid-size bizjet as standard equipment a cursor control device (CCD) for both pilots taken from its larger aircraft. Gulfstream says it designed and developed the CCD while developing its PlaneView flight deck aboard the ultra-long-range G550. Now, the CCD is standard […]

Raytheon Aircraft Services (RAS) last week announced its “MAX Entertainment System” program, a factory-approved and pre-engineered package of solutions designed to make it easier for customers to upgrade their aircrafts entertainment system. According to RAS, the program covers Beechcraft King Air, Beechcraft Premier I,Beechjet, Diamond and all legacy and current Hawker series aircraft and involves […]

Bill Watters, a veteran chief pilot and senior international captain at Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, this month joined Adam Aircraft as the airframer’s vice president, flight operations. In his new position, Watters will handle all engineering flight test, all production flight test, customer flight training, demonstration flight department, and corporate air transportation. Colorado-based Adam Aircraft continues […]

All of which is a good thing, if the anticipated demand for Eclipse 500s materializes. Already, Eclipse boasts more than 2,200 orders, secured with non-refundable deposits. Most recently, OurPLANE Inc., a leading player in fractional ownership of general aviation aircraft — as opposed to business jets and turboprops — announced an order for as many […]