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Bell Helicopter and Textron Aviation to highlight advanced commercial and defence products at FIDAE 2016

Bell Helicopter, Textron AirLand, Textron Aviation Inc. and Textron Systems, all businesses of Textron Inc., have announced their plans for the 19th edition of the International Air and Space Fair (FIDAE 2016) in Santiago, Chile, held March 29 through April 3. Textron will be displaying in Chalet C2...

FlightSafety celebrates 65th anniversary

FlightSafety International has announced that today marks the 65th anniversary of its founding. “Today we commemorate and celebrate FlightSafety’s 65th anniversary,” said Bruce Whitman, chairman, president and CEO. “Throughout our history, we have focused on our mission to...

Nomad Aviation moves headquarters from Berne to Zurich

Nomad Aviation has moved its headquarters from Berne to Zurich. The new offices are located at Zurich Airport (Kloten). "With our new state-of-the-art offices we are now closer to our customers and the important businesses in the greater Zurich area and also at a Swiss hub of Executive and VIP aviation", says Claude Neumeyer, CEO of Nomad Aviation. "Corporate functions inclu...

Gulfstream Brazil Services First Argentina-reg Aircraft

Gulfstream Aerospace’s service center in Sorocaba, Brazil, recently performed maintenance on its first Argentina-registered aircraft, some seven months after receiving maintenance authorization approval from Argentina’s Administración Nacional de Aviación Civil. The large-cabin Gulfstream the facility worked on is based at Ministro Pistarini International Airport near Bue...

Falcon 8X Nearing Certification Finish Line

The Dassault Falcon 8X is now in the final stages of its flight-test and certification program as the French aircraft manufacturer prepares to begin deliveries of the ultra-long range trijet this summer. According to Dassault, FAAand EASA certification of the 6,450-nm/11,945-km 8X is expected by June. To date, three flight-test 8Xs have completed nearly all certifi...

The Black Sheep Tour 2016 - welcome on board!

For everyone working in Business Aviation EBACE is an annual big event you just can't miss. This year there is one more reason, why the event will be special - The Black Sheep Tour 2016. Who were imagining to be a WWII pilot...Now you have a unique opportunity to live this experience on board of DOUGLAS DC3 (1940) and some other warbirds such as YAK11, TBM Avenger, Nor...

Scotland's Loch Lomond Seaplanes to enter English market

Scottish operator Loch Lomond Seaplanes is expanding into the English market with the upcoming launch of scheduled seaplane flights between Osea Island, a 400-acre private island located off the coast of Essex, and an undisclosed general aviation airport in London. The flights, which will ferry guests from London to Osea Island, are set to begin in May and will run through to September. In addi...

Wings private charter travel company takes flight

Wings is a new private charter travel company, offering bespoke solutions to suit all lifestyles and budgets. The tailor made service delivers the most cost effective propositions available, meaning private jet or helicopter travel is no longer solely for the rich and famous, with one-way European flights from as little as GBP150 per person. Wings was founded by Douglas Hopkins, who has been a...

Brazil Questions Experimental Fleet After CA-9 Crash

A Comp Air CA-9 turboprop single crashed into a townhouse moments after takeoff from São Paulo Campo de Marte Saturday afternoon, killing the pilot and mining magnate Roger Agnelli and six members of his family. One person on the ground was also injured. Agnelli was formerly president of Vale, Brazil's largest private company. The all-composite CA-9, tail number P...

Analyst Raises Alarm over Rising Used G650 Inventory

Deutsche Bank aerospace analyst Myles Walton downgraded his rating for Gulfstream Aerospace parent company General Dynamics today from “buy” to “hold” due to concerns about the effect of rising pre-ownedG650 inventory on new sales and deliveries. According to Walton, for-sale G650 inventory has risen from nine to 22 this month, up from four last March....

Seawings launches bespoke corporate solutions

Seaplane operator Seawings has launched a series of corporate solutions and programmes ensuring progressive companies have access to creative and distinct corporate event ideas, team building programmes and employee reward programmes, among other options. Bespoke itineraries are developed for both internal events such as team building, as well as corporate entertaining for their new or existing...

ExecuJet Europe grows managed fleet with two Gulfstream aircraft

ExecuJet Aviation Group is expanding its European managed fleet with the addition of a brand new Gulfstream G650 aircraft and one Gulfstream G550 aircraft. Niclas von Planta, ExecuJet’s Vice President, Europe, says: “As we continue to receive positive feedback and referrals from our customers globally, we are experiencing very high interest in ExecuJet’s aircraft management se...

Comlux America gains EASA 145 certificate

Comlux America has been awarded a Foreign EASA 145 Certificate making them the first stand-alone EASA certificate holder in the USA. The certificate allows Comlux to perform base maintenance and interior completions on European Union (EU) registered aircraft not type certificated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Since 2011 Comlux America has held an EASA supplement to their FAA...

JetSmarter launches first private JetShuttle service in Europe

An app that has been dubbed "Uber for private jets" has launched a new service in Europe that will allow customers to book empty seats on luxury routes between London, Paris and Geneva with a tap of the smartphone. JetSmarter, which launched in the US in 2013, will also launch routes to Nice in May before spreading to Moscow later this year. A ticket on a six-seat Citatio...

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