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At NBAA in Las Vegas, Diamond unveiled its largest and most sophisticated airplane yet, the DA62. With seating for up to seven people, good payload, and cruise speeds in the high 170-knot range on 15 GPH or less, Diamond sees a potential business role for the DA62. view on YouTube

As the latest version of the Pilot’s Bill of Rights works its way through Congress, 17 aviation-advocacy groups have filed a letter in support of an amendment they say would make the bill more responsive to the needs of general aviation pilots. The advocates say the amendment, offered by Senator Joe Manchin, D-W.V., would “ensure […]

Sandel surprised the NBAA show with a complete new glass panel system for the King Air. AVweb spent some time with Sandel’s Gerry Block taking a tour of the new system. view on YouTube

Elliott Aviation introduced its version of a refurbished Beechjet/Hawker 400 at NBAA 2015. view on YouTube

At Tuesday’s general session of the National Business Aviation Association convention in Las Vegas, NBAA President Ed Bolen wasted no time in getting to the association’s main concern: user fees. Throughout the convention center, posters urge NBAA members to oppose user fees by insisting congressional representatives support legislation to prohibit fees. Bolen told the opening […]

Textron Aviation displayed the test article of its Cessna Citation Longitude super mid-size business jet at NBAA 2015 in Las Vegas. Kriya Shortt shows us around. view on YouTube

Leveraging its expertise in military and commercial jet engines, GE’s business aircraft engine division has announced a new turboprop engine in the 850- to 1650-HP range that will compete with the market-dominating Pratt & Whitney PT6 series. The new engine, which GE calls the Advanced Turboprop engine, has already found a launch customer in Textron’s […]

Wheels Up, a startup fractional operator specializing in King Air 350i aircraft, says it’s seeing strong demand for a service that provides fractional customers with on-demand transportation at prices below those offered by established jet fractional companies. At the NBAA convention in Las Vegas Monday, Wheels Up CEO Kenny Dichter said the company has flown […]

Some enterprising business folks are offering to help drone owners with the FAA’s coming registration process, for a fee, but the FAA said today that owners should wait before parting with any cash. Drone users “should know they probably won’t need help registering their drones when the system is in place,” the FAA said in […]

Industrial espionage being what it is, I suspect the execs at Pratt & Whitney knew about GE’s blockbuster announcement of a new engine at NBAA Monday before the press did. I was sort of suspecting something because I recently interviewed GE about the H-series engines of the sort Nextant Aerospace is using in the King […]