The National Aeronautic Association (NAA) announced that the Cirrus Aircraft Vision® Jet has been awarded the 2017 Robert J. Collier Trophy for developing the world’s first single engine Personal Jet™ and implementing the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System® (CAPS®) on the aircraft. The Collier Trophy is selected by a committee that includes 25 industry leaders and is...
Visit Airbus at Hall B5, Stand 5A20 - from Tuesday 10th to Thursday 12th April; o Media Briefing & stand tour: Tuesday April 10th from 09h25 to 10h30. o Largest ever Airbus stand at AIX – now combining: Airbus Commercial Aircraft and Services at one location. Airbus showcases its new cabin innovations at this years’ Aircraft Interior...
Embraer and Widerøe, Scandinavia’s largest regional airline, celebrated the delivery of the manufacturer’s first production E190-E2 today at a ceremony at Embraer’s facility in São José dos Campos. The Norwegian airline will start flying the new aircraft on domestic routes later this month. The E190-E2 is the first of three new-generation aircraft seating...
Less than one-year old technology company AVIAÂ is pioneering predictive analytics to bring the benefits of the group purchasing organisation (GPO) model to the business aviation industry. It is the first Anglo/American company of its kind to bring such expertise and transparency to Europe and the USA and in less than 12 months has built up a substantial customer base across the US and...
ALSIM is pleased to announce the sale of an ALX (Multi Engine Piston, Light Turboprop, Medium Turboprop and Medium Jet) to Tayside Aviation, a flight school located in Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom. The flight school already owned an Alsim device, the AL200 MCC. Mr. Jim Watt, Tayside Aviation’s Managing Director, explains why their school selected ALSIM’...
Boeing recently achieved a major certification milestone following a successful refueling flight between two KC-46 tankers. The company's tanker program has now completed its required Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) fuel on-load testing. During the three-hour, forty-eight minute flight, a KC-46 successfully transferred 146,000 pounds of fuel to a second KC-46, while achie...
Both the Brazilian Armed Forces and the Mexican Air Force have placed their trust in Airbus Helicopters’ HCare Smart by the hour maintenance programs for a total contract value of more than 125 million euros. The contract with the Brazilian Armed Forces covers the entirety of the 50 H225Ms currently on order, of which 30 have already been delivered, for the Brazilian Army,...
Weston Aviation the UK and Ireland based business aviation and FBO specialist has announced continuous year on year growth of ad-hoc aircraft activity at Humberside International Airport. From opening at the airport in 2011 where there was previously no formal FBO facility at the airport, Weston Aviation has increased business aviation and cargo movements by 212%. Commenting on the results, CE...
The start-up SKYdeals will attend the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg from 10th – 12th April 2018 on booth #3C30. SKYdeals will showcase the first solution of inflight "Shoppertainment" in the world. On this occasion, the two founders, also members of the APEX* association, will have the opportunity to showcase to main airlines representatives their concept and its advantag...
Supersonic commercial travel is on the horizon. NASA awarded Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® a contract to design, build and flight test the Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator, an X-plane designed to make supersonic passenger air travel a reality. "It is super exciting to be back designing and flying X-planes at this scale," said Jaiwon Shin, NASA's associate administra...
Order from leading airplane lessor reflects strong market demand for new and improved 737 jet Boeing and Air Lease Corporation (ALC) announced they have finalized an order for eight more 737 MAX 8 airplanes, valued at $936.8 million at list prices. Air Lease Corporation (ALC), one of the world's leading airplane lessors, has been a big buyer of the improved 737 airpl...
Dassault Falcon Jet has retrofitted its tenth Falcon with the new Gogo AVANCE L5 Air-To-Ground internet system, becoming a leading integrator of the popular in-flight connectivity solution. Gogo AVANCE L5 combines Gogo’s advanced hardware solutions with leading software technology, providing a fully integrated, aviation-grade onboard internet, communications and entertainment platfo...
