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Hartzell Engine Technologies Buys Sky-Tec Brand

Hartzell Engine Technologies (HET), a Tailwind Technologies Company, took advantage of the first-day excitement at Sun ’n’ Fun 2016 to announce that it has purchased the Sky-Tec brand of high-performance aircraft starters and solenoids. Based in Montgomery, Ala., HET is an...

Piper Announces Fleet Sale to UND

The sales staff at Vero Beach, Fla.-based Piper Aircraft are celebrating at this year’s Sun ’n' Fun airshow in Lakeland, Fla. Today they announced the sale of 112 training aircraft to the UND Aerospace Foundation, which provides aircraft and training services to the Univers...

PPC helps Bristow wrap S92 for long-term storage

Dallas-based Protective Packaging Corp (PPC) has preserved a Sikorsky S-92 for Bristow Helicopters that became surplus to requirements due to the oil price downturn. The company needed to protect the aircraft from corrosion, and other environmental factors until the market conditions improve. A requirement from the operator also included the need to rotate the blades periodically du...

JetSuite adds 10 Embraer 135LRs to fleet

JetSuite has added the Embraer 135LR jet to its existing fleet of Phenom 100s and CJ3s. The company has agreed to purchase 10 EMB-135 aircraft from the manufacturer. The first has already been delivered and the tenth will be delivered by mid-2017. The new, larger 30-seat aircraft will be available for bookings from 4 April with charter flights beginning this month. The economics of...

ABACE: China’s private jet market goes quiet – for now

A Chinese proverb reads thus: All things are difficult before they are easy. This aptly sums up conditions for private jet makers in the previously booming China market. Prior to the last instalment of the Asian Business Aviation Conference (ABACE) show in Shanghai in April 2015, manufacturers commented on a sharply slowing market for private aircraft, mainly owing to a crackdown on corruptio...

Brazil Airports Prepare for Bizjet Rush During Olympics

Brazil’s Sorocaba Airport will be a “bedroom community for business jets” during the Olympics Games this summer in Rio, according to Embraer, which established an FBO and MRO facility at the São Paulo-area airfield two years ago. Dassault Falcon and Gulfstream also selected the airport, which is 22 nm from São Paulo and 240 nm from Rio, as the lo...

Ibiza booms nearly 450% as bookings increase to European destinations

The boost in corporate jet bookings to European destinations has been reflected in the latest internal figures from charter company Victor, released to Corporate Jet investor. The company recorded an increase in booking requests in the first two months of 2016 for select European destinations. It has seen requests in the first two months for flights in June and July for Ibiza up by 441%; Cann...

Currency provider Centtrip to make corporate jet market ‘key priority’ for 2016

Global currency provider Centtrip is to take on the corporate jet market turning its services to the sector to help save a “fortune by offering live rates with no spreads through one central global currency account to manage numerous aircraft” according to co-founder and managing director Tony North. Internal research from the company has suggested that there are now 594 business ai...

Turkish government puts out information request for coast guard aircraft

The Turkish government’s procurement agency has released a request for information (RFI) for options on purchasing a coast guard aircraft. The Undersecretariat for Defence Industries (SSM) said that planned missions of the aircraft will be controlling naval sovereign zones in the Mediterranean. Tasks will include performing reconnaissance flights to help control illegal immigration on the...

2016 FBO Survey: The Americas

As business aviation activity in North America continues to rebound from the depths of the downturn, that has meant good news and growing prosperity for many of the companies that service those aircraft. According to industry data provider Argus, in its 2015 Business Aviation Review, the industry posted a year-over-year rise in flight activity in 24 of the 25 months since December 2013. Last year...

DC Aviation Al-Futtaim receives GCAA CAR145 approval

DC Aviation Al-Futtaim (DCAF) has received CAR145 approval from UAE's General Civil Aviation Authority for providing maintenance services for the Bombardier Global Express and Challenger 604/605 type aircraft. “This is a major milestone for DCAF as it means we are now in a position to provide comprehensive maintenance services to our fleet of managed aircraft,” said Michael Lind...

ExecuJet announces new Line Maintenance Station for EASA aircraft in Nigeria

ExecuJet is announcing an extended Line Maintenance capability for EASA registered aircraft at its base in Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, Nigeria. In partnership with Maintenance Centre Malta (MCM), ExecuJet now supports a larger fleet of different aircraft types from Bombardier, Dassault and Hawker in the West Africa region. Ettore Poggi, Vice President, ExecuJet Africa, says:...

Dassault appoints Byron Severson

Dassault Falcon Jet has appointed Byron Severson as regional sales manager for the south-central US. Severson will oversee the development of new business and serve existing customers in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. He will be based in Dallas, Texas. Paul Floreck, senior vice president for Western US and Canada, said: “Byron brings strong credentials to...

Bond Offshore Helicopters wins Premier Oil contract

Bond Offshore Helicopters has been awarded a new three-year contract to provide offshore crew transport on behalf of Premier Oil. Bond will service Premier’s offshore platforms in the North Sea, including their new Solan field, which is expected to deliver oil shortly. The contract, which begins this month, will be operated out of Bond’s Aberdeen facility, although the company...

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