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Piper Aircraft announces authorized service center in Southeast Asia

Piper Aircraft has announced the selection and appointment of WingsOverAsia as its authorized service center in Singapore. WingsOverAsia (WOA) has served as Piper Aircraft’s dealer in the region for nearly 3-years. The aircraft service center, located at Seletar Airport, is the first service d...

Hawker Pacific signs partnership agreement with Thomas Global Systems

Hawker Pacific, the aircraft sales and product support company in the Middle East and Asia Pacific, has signed a partnership agreement for the Asia Pacific region with Thomas Global Systems (Thomas Global) for the distribution of Thomas Global's pioneering plug-and-play LCD cockpit displays....

PT Whitesky Aviation Signs Agreement With Bell Helicopter for New Innovative Parts Service Plan

Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, and PT Whitesky Aviation today signed an agreement for a new aftermarket parts service plan. PT Whitesky Aviation, located in Jakarta, Indonesia, is a progressively emerging aviation company, specialized in non scheduled (charter) flight. The company operates a fleet of six Bell Helicopter aircraft, including three Bell 429s and three Bel...

Uber Chopper Provides Helicopter in Bali

Online application based transportation, Uber Taxi, is set to land its new line of service, Uber Chopper, in Bali. The transportation is cooperation between Uber Taxi and Air Bali, providing service of transportation of 5,000 feet above the sea level which planned to be launched on Friday, Feb. 19. Uber Taxi spokesman for Indonesia, Karun Arya, said that Uber aims to help touri...

Zetta Jet firms up orders for two Global 6000 business jets and adds options for two others

Bombardier Business Aircraft announced today that fast-growing private jet operator Zetta Jet has exercised options for a total of two Global 6000 ultra-long range business aircraft. These two options were part of an announcement for one firm order plus four options originally announced on December 15, 2015, for the same aircraft model. Additionally, Zetta Jet has procured options for tw...

Saab puts maritime spy kit on two new Bombardier planes

Sweden's Saab (SAABb.ST) said on Wednesday it plans to put its Swordfish maritime patrol system on two new aerial platforms as demand rises for ways to tackle maritime threats, including the proliferation of submarines. The move to put an enhanced version of its Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems on new airframes in partnership with Canada's Bombardier (BBDb.TO)...

Citation Latitude gets EASA certificate

The Cessna Citation Latitude midsize business jet has received certification from EASA. This means that the aircraft can now be registered in Europe. Kriya Shortt, senior vice president, Sales and Marketing said: “We are thrilled to offer the Citation Latitude to our European customers. This aircraft is ideally suited for this market and can provide customers non-stop access to...

Jetex debuts Rolls Royce Phantom FBO shuttle service

Jetex officially announces the newest fleet of airport shuttle vehicles for its DWC (Dubai World Central) based Fixed Base Operator (FBO). The previous Rolls Royce Ghost fleet will be upgraded to Three Black Rolls Royce Phantoms, making Jetex the first company to provide an exclusively Rolls Royce Phantom airport shuttle service in the world. The Rolls Royce Phantom fleet was chosen to signify the...

Daher's TBM 900 comes to the Singapore Airshow

Daher is showcasing its TBM 900 at the Singapore Airshow, bringing this very fast turboprop aircraft to one of Asia’s largest aerospace industry events. Displayed at the biennial air show is a TBM 900 owned by John Giddens. Its presence underscores the TBM 900’s popularity as the fastest-selling version in the TBM aircraft family’s history – with 105 sold and delivered i...

Neymar's 'private jet to be SEIZED' as Brazilian court orders £33m worth of Barca star's assets to be frozen

Neymar is currently under investigation in Brazil over alleged tax evasion during the last two years of his Santos career between 2011 and 2013. A Brazilian court has ordered the seizure of £33million worth of Neymar's possessions, according to reports. Spanish outlet Marca claim the Barcelona star will have his luxury yacht and private jet reclaimed, as well as numerous properties...

Large-cabin business jet squeeze hits values

Throughout 2015, the large-cabin, long-range business jet segment showed some serious signs of weakness in light of slowing demand from an emerging markets slowdown and reduced orders from oil-producing countries, according to Flightglobal’s Ascend consultancy. This also triggered a slump in the residual values of many established models in this niche sector, it says. In its latest ViewPo...

Two-year wait for $65m Gulfstream personal jet as demand flies

Gulfstream Aerospace says it’s unable to keep up with demand from the rich. Pay $65 million for the G650 or G650ER personal jets, and your wait to board them could be as long as two years, Scott Neal, Gulfstream’s senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing, said in a Bloomberg TV interview Tuesday at the Singapore Air Show. The G650ER “has taken market shar...

Luxaviation Pushes Global Bizav Consolidation

A flurry of acquisition activity over the past two years has seen Luxaviation more than triple in size to become one of the world’s leading business aviation services groups. Now, the Luxembourg-based group is preparing for further expansion with two or three more acquisitions planned during 2016, and the company also has expanded its presence in the Asia Pacific region. Luxavi...

Rockwell Collins delivers weather radar to KAI for Korean Utility Helicopter program

Rockwell Collins has delivered its first RTA-4100 MultiScanTM Weather Radar to KAI for the medevac variant of the Korean Utility Helicopter. This is the first selection of the new RTA-4100 Weather Radar with enhanced surface search modes in the Asia-Pacific region. “Our RTA-4100 MultiScan Weather Radar will provide enhanced safety and mission capability during the highly adverse weat...

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