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Totality of Bombardier flight operations covered with SAF through a landmark agreement with Signature Aviation

Bombardier & Signature Aviation have reached a multi-year agreement for the purchase of SAF quantities, utilizing the Book and Claim system, covering all of Bombardier’s flight operations starting in January 2023. The agreement is the first of this scope for a business aviation original equipment manufacturer. Under the Book and Claim system, a user located near a SAF...

Electra achieves sale of 1,000th eSTOL aircraft signing milestone order with Welojets

Electra.aero signed a LoI with Welojets for 32 eSTOL aircraft, bringing total order book to 1,000 aircraft worth over $3 billion. Welojets joins a broad range of customers for Electra’s climate-friendly eSTOL aircraft including urban and regional airlines, charter operators, VIP transport, medical and emergency response transport, and helicopter operat...

50+ Bombardier Challenger 604 aircraft upgraded with Collins Aerospace Pro Line Fusion avionics

Collins Aerospace surpassed 50 installation upgrades of its Pro Line Fusion integrated avionics system for the Bombardier Challenger 604 aircraft. Fusion is an update to the factory-installed avionics suite, replacing difficult to repair cathode ray tube displays with dependable, high-resolution touchscreens and making the Challenger 604 compliant with national airspace modernization req...

Rolls-Royce reinforces business aviation global services network

Rolls‑Royce announced it is strengthening its business aviation services infrastructure by extending established partnerships and adding new members to the global network of Authorised Service Centres for its CorporateCare customer base. Authorised Service Centres are an essential element of the Rolls-Royce services portfolio and add to our existing global service capabilities. The...

CAE ramps up Gulfstream training in Las Vegas, Savannah and Singapore

CAE has begun training on Gulfstream aircraft platforms at new US locations in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Savanah, Georgia, and will start training in November at a new Asia Pacific location in Singapore. The start of operations at these three new locations marks an important milestone in the expansion of CAE’s global business aviation pilot and maintenance training network. Nick Leontidis, C...

U.S. business aviation market enjoys double-digit percentage growth compared to 2019

Analysis of industry data by Airbus Corporate Jets reveals there were around 2.76 million business aircraft departures in the U.S. during the first eight months of 2022, an increase of over 303,000 or 12.3 percent when compared to the same period in 2019. Every month between January and August this year there was a rise in U.S. business aircraft departures when compared to the...

flyExclusive expands fleet with order for Cessna Citation XLS Gen2 and Citation Longitude

Textron Aviation entered into a purchase agreement with Exclusive Jets, LLC, operating as flyExclusive, for up to 14 additional Cessna Citation business jets. flyExclusive has agreed to purchase eight Cessna Citation XLS Gen2 aircraft to be delivered in 2024, and up to six Citation Longitude, with initial deliveries of the first two Longitude aircraft expected in 2025. These aircraft will pro...

Setting new standard for inflight connectivity - flyExclusive and SmartSky

flyExclusive is teaming up with SmartSky Networks to display SmartSky’s latest technology onboard a flyExclusive jet at NBAA-BACE 2022. The NBAA display follows an initial successful installation of SmartSky hardware on Cessna Citation X series business jets at flyExclusive’s facilities in Kinston, North Carolina and sets a new bar for inflight connectivity per...

Desert Jet Center partners with TITAN Aviation Fuels and launches new software system to enhance customer experience

Desert Jet Center, located at the Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport (KTRM) in Thermal, California, and recently designated preferred FBO status by the Corporate Aircraft Association (CAA), announced its recent partnership with TITAN Aviation Fuels. Desert Jet Center's new fuel provider will deliver high-quality products and value to its clientele flying into the FBO. In preparation for...

Discover Daher newest turboprop-powered aircraft – the Kodiak 900 and TBM 960

Meet Daher family of highly efficient turboprop-powered aircraft at NBAA-BACE 2022 in Orlando, Florida, with the two latest models introduced this year – the Kodiak 900 and TBM 960 – on display. Nicolas Chabbert, the Senior Vice President of Daher’s Aircraft Division, commented: “This year’s NBAA-BACE enables us to bring together our top-of-the-...

Set for take-off - research reveals use of SAF in the U.S. business aviation market

Sustainability in aviation. It seams to be one of most used words nowadays. 58 percent senior U.S. business executives believe the use of SAF in the private aviation sector will increase significantly over the next five years. A further 32 percent believe there will be a slight increase in its use. According to new research 1 with senior executives of U.S. businesses with an annual re...

Two fully outfitted G700 test aircraft will be showcased to customers across continents

Two fully outfitted Gulfstream G700 production test aircraft will embark on an extensive world tour to showcase Gulfstream’s flagship and the most spacious cabin in the industry to customers. The G700 world tour will commence directly after the two aircraft appear at NBAA-BACE 2022 and builds on the test program’s impressive real-world performance capabilities, which already inclu...