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Stonebriar delivers $9.8m debt financing

Stonebriar Commercial Finance (SCF) has provided a $9.8m, 60 month term loan refinancing for a 15 year old Bombardier Global Express business jet. The borrower is a leading aviation company that provides a wide array of turnkey aviation solutions to an extensive and diverse client base of corpora...

Coming soon: 8 brand new private jets worth waiting for

Hold it! If you are about to looking at new private jets with the intention to buy, it may be worth waiting for one of the newest models coming on to the market in the next few years. Despite a tough market, aircraft manufacturers have invested in new private jets and have upgraded existing ones...

Gerald Tobias Flies West

Gerald Tobias, the former president and CEO of Sikorsky Aircraft who helped develop the Black Hawk military helicopter and launched the S-76 executive helicopter, died on November 14 in Huntington Beach, Calif. He was 89. Born July 6, 1926, Tobias served in the U.S. Marines from 1943 to 1944 and trained on the Boeing Stearman. Following his service, Tobias remained invo...

JetNet iQ: As U.S. Leads, Midsize Bizjet Market To Rise

JetNet iQ is still predicting that 744 new business jets will be delivered this year—up from its estimate of 710 last year—but the business aviation data firm is adjusting its 10-year outlook to “reflect recent industry and market developments, especially in the large cabin market.” Thus, it now expects lower delivery volumes and a higher share of aircraft to be delivered t...

Oriens Aviation to attend the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2016

Oriens Aviation, the UK distributor for Pilatus will attend the Goodwood Festival of Speed from 23 – 26 June 2016. Edwin Brenninkmeyer, CEO of Oriens Aviation, confirmed that the exhibition will be one of the first chances for people to see the superior new version of the PC-12 NG that will offer a quieter cabin and a greater range, with no increase in fuel burn or operating cost during a...

Tyrolean Jet Services - oldest in Europe and largest in Austria

Tyrolean Jet Services is on the market since 1978. In the beginning it was a Swarovski corporate flight department, which later became an independent business structure. For a charter flight there are many options to choose from: two ACJ319, one ACJ318 ER, Bombardier Global Express, Gulfstream G550, Cessna Citation VII and Beechcraft King Air 200GT. A few more aircraft are managed by the op...

TAG Aviation Le Bourget becomes an authorised Rockwell Collins dealer

TAG Aviation’s Le Bourget Maintenance Service Centre has become a Rockwell Collins authorised business and regional systems (BRS) dealer. TAG Aviation Le Bourget is now authorised to promote and sell a wide range of the US manufacturer’s products including venue cabin management and entertainment solution, an interactive Airshow moving map and Tailwind airborne satellite TV. &ldq...

Cockpit Avionics: NextGen Upgrade Pace and STC Approvals Accelerating

The most restrictive ADS-B out mandate in the world takes effect in U.S. airspace after midnight on Dec. 31, 2019, and installation centers, STC developers and equipment manufacturers are scrambling to help aircraft owners and operators meet the deadline. The mandate means that any aircraft inadequately equipped to be flown in U.S. airspace where a transponder is...

Tempus Flies Newborn with Life-threatening Condition to Virginia

Tempus Jets partnered with World Pediatric Project to transport a newborn baby born with an incomplete esophagus from Belize to Virginia for life-saving surgery. If left untreated, the condition is fatal since the child cannot eat or swallow. World Pediatric Project, a nonprofit that provides diagnostic and surgical care to children in Central America and the Caribbean, contacted Tempus Je...

The ACA Group has another record year

The Aéroports de la Côte d’Azur (ACA) Group has had a record year for business aviation movements. A total of 46,000 movements were processed at Nice, Cannes and Saint-Tropez. Helicopter movements saw 2% growth during the year, rising to 54,000 total movements. Cannes Mandelieu Airport has also significantly improved its aircraft reception capacity by raising tonnage which...

Academy 147 receives GCAA CAR 147 approval

On December 8th 2015, Academy 147 Limited, a training organisation based in Malta received CAR 147 maintenance training organisation approval from the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) in the United Arab Emirates. Academy 147 made its initial plunge into the Middle East's rapidly growing market for maintenance training in 2015 and has pursued the GCAA approval in order to further establi...

Investigators drop charges against suspect in Total CEO plane crash case

The Investigative Committee of Russia dropped charges against one of the suspects in the Total CEO plane crash case, traffic control trainee Svetlana Krivsun, her lawyer told RAPSI on Thursday. Investigators have not commented this information yet. Christophe de Margerie died in a plane crash at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport on October 21, 2014 when his plane’s wing hit a s...

Used Aircraft Report: Bombardier Global Express

Bombardier threw down the gauntlet in front of Gulfstream when it announced the Global Express in December 1993, officially launching the battle between Montreal and Savannah for King of the Heavy-Iron class. With the aircraft’s super lean 46,500-lb. BOW, 41,500 lb. of fuel and 91,000-lb. MTOW, Bombardier officials boasted that the clean-sheet flagship would fly faster, farther and more effi...

Citation Longitude To Be Built Alongside King Airs

Textron Aviation’s new Cessna Citation Longitude will be built at the former Beechcraft campus—Wichita Beech Field—in the same plant that produces King Airs, Barons and Bonanzas, company executives told AIN. The move to build the first Citation on what is now referred to as “East Campus” in Wichita comes as Textron Aviation further integrates Cessna Aircraft...

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