50 SKY SHADES - World aviation news

Business aviation news

Latest Business Aviation news - companies, regulations and trends

Latest Business aviation news

Gulfstream G500 and G600 highlight high-speed performance with tandem city-pair records

Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announced the Gulfstream G500 and G600 aircraft continue to demonstrate their unmatched performance excellence, maturity and reliability with tandem city-pair records from Asia to North America. The sister aircraft flew together, each accomplishing the records in their res...

BACA speaks out on London airport overnight restrictions

The closure and severe reduction to overnight movements at the majority of London's Airports this summer, in order to comply with national and local Government noise contours, will have a major impact on flights in and out of London, both commercial and charter. BACA - The Air Charter Associatio...


Premium Jet leads business aviation operators by adopting Osprey Flight Solutions risk assessment system

Premium Jet, one of the leading Swiss aircraft management and charter companies, has joined commercial aircraft operators like Virgin Atlantic in embracing the unique Osprey Flight Solutions risk assessment system by becoming the first business aviation operator to take on board the technology that is revolutionising the aviation industry. Osprey's breakthrough flight risk management system...

Horix Aerospace will exhibit for the first time at EBACE 2018

Horix Aerospace announces that it will exhibit for the very first time at EBACE 2018 (Geneva, Switzerland), the European biggest business aviation event, form 29th to 31st of May. To introduce its offer, Horix Aerospace will exhibit its activities in the fields of spare parts and ground support equipment. “We are excited about our debut during such a premier event...

Avionica and GE Aviation expand digital partnership

Avionica and GE Aviation announced that they have expanded their partnership by forming a joint venture through GE's acquisition of an ownership interest in Avionica.  The JV allows the companies to accelerate edge processing and wireless connectivity to maximize the value of aircraft data.  The terms of the deal were not disclosed.  The new agreement will benefit customers b...

EBAA PARTNER IN AAL2 CONSORTIUM TO INCREASE ACCESS TO AIRPORTS FOR LOW VISIBILITY FLEET OPERATIONS

Building on the successful and award-winning SESAR Augmented Approaches to Land (AAL) project, a consortium of key aviation stakeholders (airports, airspace users, airframe manufacturers, avionics manufacturers and regulatory bodies) has come together to launch AAL2. It aims to demonstrate augmented approach and landing operations and will run from 2018 to 2020. Specifically, AAL2 will work on...

Mach Media launches FlightStock, a dedicated premium-quality Business Aviation image bank

Mach Media has officially launched FlightStock.com, the first dedicated image bank for Business Aviation professionals and creatives, providing those in the industry with a diverse range of high-quality media. The launch includes premium images and vectors by photographers and designers from around the globe, all with unlimited worldwide rights.  “Serving clients within the Busi...

Oriens Aviation: demand for Pilatus PC-12NG continues

·      Three aircraft delivered this spring ·      Oriens demonstrator G-DYLN to display at EBACE 2018 ·      Pilatus PC-12 flying up 13% in 2017  Oriens Aviation, the exclusive British Isles Pilatus Centre, is looking forward to a busy EBACE later this month, hard on the he...

Bombardier Challenger 350 and Challenger 650 jets can now feature 4G Wi-Fi System Following Bombardier and Duncan Aviation Collaboration

New Challenger 350 and Challenger 650 jets can now have the AVANCE L5 system installed to access the Gogo Biz 4G Wi-Fi, the fastest air-to-ground network System also available as a retrofit on in-service Challenger 300/350 and Challenger 604/605/650aircraft at both Duncan Aviation and Bombardier facilities Gogo Biz 4G is up to three times faster than tradi...

Bombardier Provides Enhanced Worldwide Customer Experience with Extensive Series of Customer Support Events

Bombardier to host more than 25 customer support events in 2018, including Maintenance & Operations (M&O) conferences, Advisories, Product and Service Focus Groups, Local Airport Area Roadshows  Series of five M&O conferences to be hosted worldwide, including in Hong Kong, the U.S. and Croatia Opportunity for customers and operators to learn more about the latest in Bo...

BACA training day highlights data security and compliance

On the 3rdMay, BACA held another successful training event at the RAF Club in London.  The event sought to identify key risks in the modern air charter broking transaction process and to provide guidance on how to minimise them and avoid pitfalls.  All of the speakers made clear that the key to protecting any business lies in strong systems and controls, training of staff and c...

Dubai HeliShow 2018 announces partnership with Dubai South

The Dubai HeliShow, the biennial international helicopter technology and operations exhibition dedicated to the helicopter industry, will showcase for the first time the latest trends in helicopters at the Royal Pavilion at the Al Maktoum International Airport as part of Dubai South’s strategic move to become a world-class regional hub for helicopter operations and maintenance. Dubai Sout...

Piaggio Aerospace at EBACE 2018

Piaggio Aerospace will participate in the 18thedition of the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE), the premier business aviation event in Europe. The Airshow will bestaged in Geneva, Switzerland, at the Palexpo, between 29thand 31stMay. Piaggio Aerospace will be present at the indoor display (booth T123)and will exhibit its Avanti EVO at the Static Display (SD_10)...

EBACE2018 Lands in Geneva This Month

As the most important European show focused entirely on the business aviation industry, the 2018 European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE2018) assembles the latest aircraft and aviation equipment manufacturers and suppliers, industry leaders and more in one venue. If you use aviation for business, you won’t want to miss EBACE2018. Hosted by the National Business Aviation...

Upcoming events

Farnborough International Airshow 2026

20/07/2026 - 24/07/2026
United Kingdom, Farnborough

The Air Charter Expo – ACE’26

08/09/2026
United Kingdom, London

Essential news

Platoon Aviation to build Europe's largest Cessna Citation Longitude fleet

Platoon Aviation signed a purchase agreement with Textron Aviation for multiple Cessna Citation Longitude business jets. With this order, Pl...

Signature Aviation, BETA Technologies, Republic Airways, and Brickyard Connection complete regional electric flight demonstrations across Florida

Signature Aviation, BETA Technologies, Republic Airways Holdings and Brickyard Connection completed three days of high-cadence electric flight demonstrations at Kissimmee Gateway Airport earlier...

Eve completes hover & low‑speed flights block, advancing eVTOL toward transition flight testing

Eve Air Mobility announced the successful closeout of the hover & low‑speed flights block in the flight test campaign of its full‑scale engineering prototype. The completed block generated hi...

iOS Apps development in Riga, Latvia

Top of the week

Business Aviation at AERO 2027 will be even bigger, organiser pledges

AERO 2027 aims to build on the great success of AERO 2026 with an enhanced programme for business aviation, organisers Fairnamic confirmed today.   For the second year running, AERO was...

Bombardier delivers first Global 8000 in Africa to Nigeria-based BUA Group

Bombardier delivered the first Global 8000 aircraft in Africa to BUA Group, a Nigerian-based multinational company with interests across cement, food, oil and gas, energy, infrastr...

AfBAA launches first phase of groundbreaking research to improve understanding of business aviation in Africa

African Business Aviation Association announced the launch of a landmark research project that aims to advance the understanding, perception, and knowledge of the sector across the African continent.&...

Prince Aviation hosts CMIG annual summit in Belgrade

Prince Aviation hosted the annual summit of the Citation Mustang Interest Group (CMIG) at its facility at Belgrade airport from 4 to 6 June 2026. The event brought together Citation Mustang owners and...

Gogo announces new STC approved to install Gogo Galileo connectivity on Dassault Falcon 7X/8X

Gogo Galileo high performance connectivity system can now be installed on the Dassault Falcon 7X and 8X. Dassault Falcon Jet MRO has received Supplemental Type Certificates from both the Federal Aviat...

Metrojet welcomes Asia’s first Bombardier Global 8000 to its managed fleet

Metrojet Limited announced the arrival of Asia’s first Bombardier Global 8000 aircraft into its managed fleet, a landmark achievement that reflects the Company’s continued growth...

ExecuJet MRO services Belgium completes extensive project on Falcon 7X

ExecuJet MRO Services Europe completed a major project on a Dassault Falcon 7X that included: installing a Starlink system and antennae, performing an avionics upgrade, an engine change, exterior repa...