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Gogo Business Aviation Expands ATG Coverage in North America

Gogo Business Aviation (NASDAQ: GOGO) has expanded its coverage on the eastern seaboard of North America and in central Canada, providing approximately one hour of additional air-to-ground inflight connectivity in both locations for business aircraft. The expanded coverage on Canada’s east coast is primarily between Halifax, Nova Scotia and Gander, Newfoundland – approximately 450 a...

Cessna Delivers Milestone 7,000Th Citation as NetJets’ First Citation Latitude

Cessna Aircraft Company, a subsidiary of Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. company, today announced it has delivered the first fractional Cessna Citation Latitude midsize business jet to NetJets, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway company. Today’s delivery represents significant milestones for both NetJets and the Citation product line. This aircraft represents the 7,000th Citation delivere...

Waypoint places two Sikorsky S-92 helicopters

Waypoint Leasing has placed two new Sikorsky S-92s on lease with a global helicopter operator. “Despite a period of weak demand for oil and gas globally, and a recent shift in the market for heavy aircraft, we are receiving numerous inquiries.” Clark McGinn, Waypoint’s senior vice president of Sales & Relationship Management said: “Despite a period of weak demand...

Smithsonian and Victoria and Albert museums team up for special exhibition

Call it the new special relationship. The Smithsonian Institution in Washington and Victoria and Albert Museum in London, have signed an agreement for Smithsonian to organise exhibitions at the 2012 Olympics site in the British capital, where V&A will occupy part of a huge campus. The memorandum of understanding represents a landmark collaboration between the two major museums, even though...

FAA Approves Terrafugia Flying Car Prototype As Light Airplane

Terrafugia’s Transition is a flying car. It’s an awkward, gangly beat, with wings that fold perpendicular to the ground like too-tall sails, and a wide, bubbly cockpit that seems out of place in the sky. It flies, and it drives, and now it has a waiver from the FAA that exempts it from some of the stricter requirements of being a light sport airplane, requirements hard to meet if it is...

JetLease Capital News

In the month of May JetLease Capital arranged and closed four aircraft financing transactions totaling just over $15,000,000. Details listed below: 1. New Phenom 300 business jet. The transaction was structured as a 6-month bridge loan facility. The client is a high net worth individual/entrepreneur based in the Southeastern United States. 2. 2005 Cessna Sovereign. The transaction was a refina...

Spike Aerospace Evaluating Engines for Supersonic Jet with Two Major Suppliers

Spike Aerospace announced they are evaluating several possible engine options for the S-512 Supersonic Jet. The company is currently working with two engine manufacturers and is in the early stages of discussion with a third engine supplier. Spike Aerospace and the engine manufacturers are identifying existing engine that can be modified to meet the requirements of the Spike S-512 Supersonic Je...

Gulfstream launches G500 and G600 cabin showcase

 Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. today announced that a full-scale cabin of the Gulfstream G600 is travelling around the United States this summer to give customers an opportunity to step on board and experience firsthand the comfort, quality and craftsmanship of the G500 and G600. “We’re bringing the G600 cabin and flight deck to our customers and potential customers so we can intr...

Boeing to Provide Airport and Airspace Modeling Services to Assist Turkish Authorities

Boeing announced a new Technical Assistance Agreement with iGA Havalimani Isletmesi A.S. (IGA), the developer and operator of Istanbul New Airport. Through the agreement, Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen will provide its Total Airport and Airspace Modeler (TAAM) solution to assist IGA and DHMI, Turkey’s General Directorate of State Airports Authority. This group will support the development of...

STS Expands its Aircraft Engineering Services With Strategic New Hire

STS Engineering Solutions (STSES), a division of STS Aviation Group and the leading provider of aircraft engineering services throughout much of the United States and Latin America, hires Brian Fasano, PE, DER, as its Senior Director of Maintenance Programs and Reliability. This is a new position for STS, one that allows the company to significantly expand its already impr...

The FAA Just Released Its New Drone Rule Book

The Federal Aviation Administration released its new book of drones rules. The summary is almost a thousand words long. The full 624 page rulebook is, at roughly 170,000 words, about as long as Joseph Heller’s Catch 22. The rules are long in coming, and they have a depth that will take a while to properly explore. Here’s what we know so far. From the FAA press release: Under the...

Double Delivery: Two C-130J Super Hercules Delivered to U.S. Air Force

Lockheed Martin delivered two new C-130J Super Hercules aircraft to the U.S. Air Force last week, the company announced Wednesday. Airmen from Moody Air Force Base visited Lockheed's Marietta, Ga., facility on June 9 to ferry a new HC-130J Combat King II, the company said in a statement. The HC-130J is the service's only dedicated fixed-wing personnel recovery platform and is flown b...