Business & Military

The Iridium NEXT satellite constellation is nearly complete and the company is working on Certus, a satellite communications system aimed at, among other things, aviation. Iridium’s Bryan Hartin and Michael Hooper told AVweb more about the latest developments at the 2018 NBAA convention. Duration: 10:52 File Size: 9.97 MB download here

The theme for this year’s NBAA-BACE convention was the future of aviation and a lot of the companies attending embraced that theme. There were lots of virtual reality gizmos in the displays and an overall sense that profound change, from technology through hardware to environmental realities, is all around us. Please, I know some of […]

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, […]

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 […]

As the National Business Aircraft Association convention opens in Orlando, Florida, Garmin is showing off its G5000 retrofit for the Cessna Citation XLS, plus a variety of other equipment, including the G700TXi. Aviation Consumer Editor Larry Anglisano is at the convention and talked with Garmin’s Phil Straub about the advancement of Garmin avionics for the […]

Textron introduced the Cessna SkyCourier turboprop as a utility cargo hauler but has found growing interest in its versatility even before the first aircraft has been flown. The company is showing off a mock-up of a 19-passenger configuration at the National Business Aircraft Association convention in Orlando, Florida. view on YouTube

A couple of years ago Sandel Avionics promised that its Avilon modular integrated flight deck would be the cost-effective and simple retrofit the industry has been waiting for. At the NBAA convention in Orlando, Florida, this week the company announced that it will begin shipping the Avilon (initially for King Air applications) in the first […]

New aircraft aren’t the only thing to see at the NBAA Business Aviation Convention. This Dornier 328 was on display at the show. The aircraft has flown to destinations around the world and is configured for 12-passenger luxury travel. view on YouTube