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Aviation is changing and Uber is leading an effort that will result in a system virtually unrecognizable by today’s standards but not that far away, says the company’s chief of aviation program. Eric Allison, of Uber Elevate, told the opening session at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA-BACE) convention in Orlando on Tuesday that the […]

Airshow legend Sean D. Tucker is the recipient of this year’s Al Ueltschi Award for Humanitarian Leadership for his work with at-risk youth in the Bob Hoover Academy. Tucker accepted the award at the opening session of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA-BACE) convention in Orlando on Tuesday. Tucker and his son Eric co-founded the […]

ForeFlight is at NBAA’s convention in Orlando this week with a bundle of new products designed for high-performance business aviation aircraft. “We raised the bar and transformed ForeFlight’s product suite into a high-powered, next-generation integrated flight deck and flight-planning application for business aviation,” said CEO Tyson Weihs, at the show. The new features include mobile […]

Over the weekend, drivers along Route I-495 in the Northeast got to see a vintage Constellation Starliner, freshly decked out in 1950s-era TWA livery, riding down the freeway on a flatbed. The fuselage and the detached wings and engines filled two oversize trucks, and attracted news coverage when the convoy stopped to fix a flat […]

Piper Aircraft delivered 65 aircraft in the third quarter of this year, its best-performing quarter since 2008, the company said last this week. So far this year, Piper has delivered 152 aircraft, compared to 99 over the same period last year. Deliveries of the Archer TX led the growth, with a 60 percent increase, and […]

Daher’s turboprop TBM 930 is seeing increasing use in charter services, the company announced at the NBAA Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition on Monday. California-based charter company Mountain Lion Aviation purchased the first 930 to see use as a charter in December 2017. Mountain Lion says it has flown the aircraft for roughly 430 hours, […]

Avidyne has already earned STC certification for retrofit of the IFD550/IFD540 into the Citation CJ525 and 525A and now it’s working on more approvals for the CJ1+, CJ2+ and CJ3 Citation jets. With the IFD navigators, these aircraft will have LPV approach, electronic charting, wireless connectivity and ADS-B compliance. Avidyne completed the first CJ certification […]

The first BBJ MAX 8 has been delivered, Boeing Business Jets announced at NBAA-BACE on Monday. The aircraft is the first of the MAX line to go to a customer. To commemorate the delivery, the company introduced a new interior concept by design firm SkyStyle. According to Boeing Business Jets, it currently has 20 orders […]

An accurate tally of the number of U.S. active aircraft equipped with ADS-B is now available thanks to the flight tracking app FlightAware. The company, which started with a single feed from FAA ATC data ten years ago, now offers global flight tracking through satellite and ground stations. It can keep track of which aircraft […]

Microsoft co-founder and aviation entrepreneur Paul Allen died Monday after a struggle with cancer. He was 65. Allen is well known in the tech industry as a co-founder of Microsoft in the 1970s, along with Bill Gates. But he had wide-ranging interests including major business ventures in aviation, most recently the Stratolaunch multi-engine jet designed […]