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MACE 2022 - interview with Capt.Charles Pace, Director General CAD, Transport Malta

If you think that two days of a conference is enough to catch all the people you want to interview, I confirm, it is not always the case. MACE 2022 offered a very full and interesting agenda, during the networking breaks there were people in high demand, so .... This brings us to the reason why 50...

Inaugural Irish Business & General Aviation Association conference - Interview with Joe Buckley

When a new event is announced, it's obvious to ask the questions: how will it be different from other events in the industry, what makes it special? 50skyshades is pleased to be an official Media Partner of the Inaugural Irish Business & General Aviation Association conference. It is more t...


The orderbook for Tecnam P2012 STOL was opened at NBAA_BACE 2022

During NBA-BACE 2022 Tecnam presented the new P2012 dedicated to Short Take Off and Landing operations and the program to secure the available production slots. Specifically designed to operate across the most demanding commercial airports in the world, addressing the needs of a market niche that was left undeveloped and unsupported for decades, Tecnam is once again providing a solu...

Best in class performance at the lowest operating cost - G2+ Vision Jet

Designed and manufactured by Cirrus Aircraft, the G2+ Vision Jet is the ultimate business asset as an efficient Part 135 charter aircraft. The award-winning Vision Jet features an extensive portfolio of business use cases for missions between 200 to 1,000 nautical miles at the lowest operating cost for a business jet. The Vision Jet is single-pilot certified or can be flown with two pilots...

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...

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...

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Honda Aircraft Company announced first delivery of HondaJet Elite II in Brazil, marking a significant milestone in the company’s continued commitment to general aviation in South America. The de...