Business & Military

In January 2012, Bell Canada applied to the FAA for an exemption from the FARs that would allow it to increase the gross weight of its Model 429 by 500 pounds to 7,500 pounds as had been approved in Canada and a number of other countries. The FAA denied the petition in August 2012. Bell […]

In an exclusive, Reuters is reportingthat Lockheed Martin and the Defense Department have inked a $4 billion deal for an eighth series delivery of 43 F-35 single-engine, all-weather, stealth fighters. According to the report, the hard-fought contract will lower the price of the jet by about 3 percent-and it includes aircraft to be built for […]

While the rest of the world, especially Israel and Australia, move rapidly forward with commercial deployment of unmanned aircraft systems, the FAA’s slow formulation of regulations endangers the U.S. ability to compete. That was one observation that came out of an hour-long panel discussion attended by several hundred people at NBAA in Orlando this week. […]

AVweb’s weekly foray into all that is going on in aviation revealed news of EASA certification of a new Airbus helicopter, a free ForeFlight manual, the identity of the keynote speaker at Redbird Migration next week and availability of a free insurance review. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certified the new EC135 T3/P3 by […]

UFO reports by airliner crews are nothing new, but a British A320 crew raised eyebrows after saying they had a close encounter with a flying man who swooped past their aircraft without visible means of support on June 13. The UFO has been dubbed the “Superman of Macclesfield” and the UK Airprox Board, which investigates […]

After mostly remaining aloof from the record-setting side of aviation for over 70 years, Cessna appears to have returned to the fray-using the Mach 0.935 cruising speed of its recently certificated Citation X+ to set four city-to-city speed records in its weight class. Over a two-day period, the jet set speed records on four sequential […]

At NBAA, Cessna showed off its new Latitude super-mid-size aircraft. AVweb got a brief tour while covering the show. view on YouTube

Aircraft broker Ren Banglesdorf says the market is better but still not great. AVweb’s Russ Niles spoke with her at NBAA 2014. Duration: 4:40 File Size: 4.3 MB download here

We get a steady trickle of press releases from the mash-up of companies that now comprise Textron Aviation-Cessna, Beechcraft and Hawker. The other day, we noticed something: the press releases are coming through not with the Textron Aviation moniker but the badges of the individual companies. At the static display on Monday, I noticed the […]

China’s largest bizjet charter company, Deer Jet, sees plenty of room for expansion in the exploding Chinese marketplace – maybe not in fractionals (yet), but in some surprising segments, like providing flights in and out of the country. Deer Jet’s Zhang Peng demystifies the world’s fastest-growing bizav economy in a short conversation with us at […]