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ExecuJet MRO Services Australasia expands Falcon 7X heavy maintenance capability in Sydney

ExecuJet MRO Services Australasia is expanding its Falcon maintenance capability in Sydney, with new investments in specialist tooling, training and technical resources to support upcoming Falcon 7X heavy maintenance work. The company is preparing to undertake Falcon 7X C-checks, with work commencin...

VIP Completions-YODEZEEN Gulfstream G550 wins prestigious design award

VIP Completions together with partner YODEZEEN announced that their Gulfstream G550 refurbishment project won the ‘Aviation Interior Design/VIP Completion’ title at the International Yacht & Aviation Awards .The IY&AA celebrate the world’s most innovative designs in lu...

Global Jet Capital launches Q1 2026 market briefing

While the geopolitical situation contributed to economic uncertainty in Q1, market fundamentals remained healthy. The quarter showed strong demand for business aviation, reflected in increasing aircraft departures, OEM backlog, and stable pre-owned availability. Transaction levels declined year over year in Q1 as a result of supply chain constraints and comparison with a strong Q1 2025. Dela...

Jetfly highlights the versatility of Pilatus PC-12 in European business aviation sector

For more than twenty-five years, Jetfly has been developing its Shared Ownership Program, focusing in particular on the Pilatus PC-12, a turboprop aircraft renowned for its versatility, reliability, and ability to access more than 3,500 airports and airfields across Europe. Designed to address the new mobility challenges faced by executives and entrepreneurs, the PC-12 remains at the heart of the...

Airshare to equip fleet of Embraer Phenom 300s with Gogo Galileo connectivity

U.S.-based aircraft management, fractional ownership, jet cards, and charter services operator Airshare is equipping its fleet of Embraer Phenom 300s with the Gogo Galileo HDX system. The upgrade delivers high-speed, low-latency connectivity across Airshare's Phenom fleet, enabling passengers and crew to email, stream, video conference, and browse simultaneously from anywhere they fl...

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, Platoon Aviation is set to become the largest Citation Longitude fleet operator in Europe. The new super-midsize aircraft are expected to enter service beginning in early 2027, marking a significant mil...

Signature Aviation breaks ground on hangar and office development at Roanoke-Blacksburg Airport

Signature Aviation announced the groundbreaking of a more than $10 million hangar and office development at Roanoke-Blacksburg Airport (ROA), continuing a nearly seven-decade legacy of serving aircraft, crews, and passengers in Virginia’s Blue Ridge region. The project will add a 22,000-square-foot hangar with an attached 3,000-square-foot office facility and a 14-bay parking lot. Designed w...

Vertical Aerospace selected Hyundai WIA as landing gear partner for Valo

Vertical Aerospace announced a new long-term partnership with Hyundai WIA, a subsidiary of Hyundai Corporation and a leading mobility and manufacturing company, to supply the landing gear system for Valo, Vertical’s eVTOL aircraft. Under the agreement, Hyundai WIA will develop and manufacture a bespoke landing gear system for Valo, with end-to-end design and production responsibili...

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 this month following a winter demonstration campaign in Burlington, Vermont, and Plattsburgh, New York, earlier this year. The back-to-back hot- and cold-weather demonstrations prove the readiness of...

PRIMUS AVIA joins The Air Charter Association to strengthen its presence on the charter market worldwide

PRIMUS AVIA has recently become a member of The Air Charter Association, the leading global trade body for the aircraft charter industry. This strategic step was taken to further integrate the Austrian aviation company into an elite network of operators and brokers worldwide, as well as to reflect its commitment to the strict requirements of the association’s Code of Professional Practice. B...

First eVTOL flight in Central Asia - AutoFlight completes landmark demonstration in Kazakhstan

AutoFlight has successfully completed the first ton-class eVTOL demonstration flight in Alatau City, Kazakhstan – marking the first eVTOL Urban Air Mobility flight in Central Asia. The milestone was achieved in collaboration with Alatau Advance Air Group Ltd., which has already purchased and paid for AutoFlight's large-scale eVTOL. During the flight ceremony, the two...

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 high‑fidelity data and knowledge gains that continue to mature the program as Eve progresses toward transition flight testing. This milestone reflects Eve’s disciplined building-block approac...

HondaJet APMG S upgrade package now certified in Mexico

HondaJet Classic and APMG owners in Mexico can now upgrade their aircraft with the cutting-edge performance and technical innovations introduced on more recent iterations of the platform, such as the HondaJet Elite S, with the Federal Civil Aviation Agency’s formal certification of the HondaJet APMG S performance upgrade package. U.S. Federal Aviation Administration certifica...

New name, same commitment to uncompromising standards of excellence - interview with Kristina N’Diaye, Jetfly Training

There are some people you just click with right away. It’s that feeling when you feel like you’ve known the person you’ve just met for years. That’s exactly how it felt when I had the pleasure of meeting Kristina N’Diaye, Sales and Operations Director at Jetfly Training. The main purpose of my visit was to learn more about Jetfly Group’s global rebranding, which...

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Introducing latest-generation TBM to a major business aviation market - Daher Aircraft delivers the first TBM 980 in Brazil

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