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Red Arrows pull out of Farnborough Air Show aerobatics after Shoreham disaster

AsBAA Student Chapter and #AsBAAintheCommunity land in Singapore

AsBAA, the Asian region’s non-for-profit representative trade body for business aviation today landed in Singapore to host a series of #AsBAAintheCommunity activities and events. These included the launch of its first Singapore Student Chapter event in association with Embry Riddle, Aeronautic...

Swiss F-5 fighter jet crashes in the Netherlands

A Swiss F-5E air demonstration fighter jet collided with another plane and crashed into a pond in the northern Netherlands ahead of an air show, Swiss and Dutch officials said. Video footage posted online by news website NU.nl showed the plane in free fall for several seconds. The pilot of the...

3 dead after plane crashes into car near Houston airport

Tree people were killed Thursday after a small plane crashed into a car in a parking lot near a Houston airport, fire officials said. Houston Fire Department spokesman Jay Evans said the plane crashed shortly after 1 p.m. into a car that was parked at a hardware store near Hobby Airport in the southeastern part of the city. Fire Capt. Ruy Lozano said offici...

Air Charter Service: Euro 2016 charter fever nears take off

With Euro 2016 fast approaching, leading aircraft charter provider, Air Charter Service, prepares for an extremely busy period and the fruition of months of work, having already booked more than 20 aircraft to fly to the championships.   The company has been busy with enquiries since the end of last year and started booking aircraft straight after the group draw in Paris on 12th December, as AC...

Jet Aviation Basel renders ACJ350 cabin interior for Airbus to display at EBACE

Jet Aviation Basel was recently appointed by Airbus Corporate Jets to design and render a VIP cabin interior for an Airbus ACJ350, the new generation composite aircraft by Airbus, that visited Geneva during EBACE 2016. Airbus brought to Geneva during EBACE 2016 a flight-test A350 to show selected visitors, and presented a gallery of cabin interior Centers inside the aircraft. Jet A...

Special EBACE for Tyrolean Jet Services

Austrian business operator Tyrolean Jet Services (TJS) is a permanent exibitor at EBACE since 2003. Over the years TJS planes were repeatedly presented on static display exhibition. Martin Lehner told that TJS team at EBACE 2016 was represented by 12 employees. This year the presentation was almost gastronomic - offering guests original prosciutto,parmesan and drinks from the Emilia-Romag...

Airbus is sunk off Turkey to become artificial reef

Turkish authorities have sunk an A300 Airbus jet off the Aegean coast with the aim of attracting more diving tourists to the region. The plane was put to the bottom of the sea off the resort of Kuşadası, in Aydin province, 50 miles south of Izmir. The sinking of the plane, which is 54 metres (177ft) long and has a wingspan of 44 metres, is aimed at promoting artificial reef diving, which...

TAG Aviation to Contribute Industry Expertise at Annual Global Family Office Community Conference

TAG Aviation and TAG Global Training (TGT) are proud to be both sponsoring and participating at this year’s third Global Family Office Community Conference (GFOC) which will take place at the Dorchester Hotel in London on Thursday 9th June. The GFOC Conference annually brings together relevant industry business experts and members from the global community of family offices to provide a...

Airbus Helicopters advances Clean Sky 2 high-speed efficient rotorcraft demonstrator

Airbus Helicopters earlier this year passed an important milestone in the development of the high-speed, compound helicopter demonstrator currently being built as part of the Clean Sky 2 European research programme. A mockup of the breakthrough airframe design has just undergone windtunnel testing in an Airbus facility. The tests proved the viability of the chosen design in terms of efficiency, su...

Annual BBA Summit - new business opportunities for the industry

Further to its previous success, the 4th Annual BBA Summit will explore all aspects of business aviation in the Baltic region and new business opportunities for the industry. The focus of this event will be on the countries that have shorelines along the Baltic Sea: Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Sweden. It...

Berlin prepares for supersonic display featuring world's fastest aircraft

Thousands of visitors will arrive in Berlin for the city's 2016 airshow which will feature some of the most advanced military and civilian aircraft currently available. More than 200 aircraft will be on display, many of them performing test flights above the crowds, including Second World War-era Messerschmitt Me 109 fighter and an Me 262, the first production jet aircraft. V...

Sold out exhibitor space highlights a successful Rotortech 2016

Around 350 delegates attended the Australian Helicopter Industry Association’s Rotortech 2016 conference and exposition at the Novotel Twin Waters Resort on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast over May 27-29, despite the global downturn in the helicopter industry. More than 40 exhibitors displayed their wares at the three-day event which also attracted large numbers of general&nbs...

This retiring Boeing 747 is the most expensive model plane on eBay

You can sell damn near anything on eBay these days. Sure, the auction site won't take your magic weed hat, but bidders will happily snap up your discared soda tabs and fucked up t-shirts. eBay will also take your airplane, no matter what condition it's in. The Concord Alliance is proving this odd but true point with its offering of two retiring aircrafts starting at a minimum...

Second world war plane crashes into New York's Hudson river

The second world war plane that crashed into the Hudson river on Friday night has been raised, after the body of its pilot was recovered, authorities said. Rescue divers removed the body of 56-year-old William Gordon, of Key West, Florida, from the river late on Friday. The single-seat P-47 Thunderbolt crashed near the George Washington bridge between New York and New Jersey, according to...

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The countdown begins: tickets now live for Air Charter Expo – ACE’26

The Air Charter Association is announcing tickets for Air Charter Expo – ACE’26 are now officially on sale. Taking place on Tuesday 8 September 2026, ACE is a partnership between The ACA,...