Canada’s Bombardier Inc on Sunday announced two new longer-range variants of its existing large-cabin Global business jets, which the company expects to generate higher revenues during a time of recovering appetite for corporate planes. The Global 5500 and 6500 jets are expected to offer 13 percent improved fuel burn and longer ranges compared with the…
While Bombardier’s business jet delivery guidance for 2018 is flat at 135 units, company president and CEO Alain Bellemare is optimistic about the segment and is prepared to increase production volumes “if the market supports it,” he told financial analysts this morning. He described the business jet market sentiment as “positive,” with the company seeing…
P2, Marenco Swisshelicopter’s second flying prototype SH09 light helicopter, will be displayed next month at Heli-Expo 2018. The company plans to announce new orders for its light single-turbine helicopter during the show and provide an update on the flight-test program. (Photo: Marenco Swisshelicopter) Marenco Swisshelicopter will bring its second flying SH09 prototype (P2) to Heli-Expo…
Embraer shipped 109 business jets in 2017, eight fewer than in 2016. Last year’s tally includes 54 Phenom 300s, down from 63 in 2016 when it was crowned as the best-selling business jet for the fourth year in a row. It’s yet unknown if that title will extend to a fifth year. (Photo: Embraer Executive…
Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based fractional provider PlaneSense is getting ready to receive the first production Pilatus PC-24, now that the twinjet has been certified by both the FAA and EASA. It will ceremoniously take delivery of PC-24 S/N 101—currently registered as HB-VSB—later this month at Pilatus’s headquarters in Stans, Switzerland. But the aircraft won’t be flown…
According to helicopter lessor Waypoint Leasing, helicopters in the new super-midsize category, such as this Leonardo AW189, are game-changing aircraft. The Airbus Helicopters H175 and to-be-certified Bell 525 are also included in this emerging segment. (Photo: Leonardo Helicopters) The super-medium helicopter is the “defining new commercial rotary product of the 2010s,” according to a report…
Textron Aviation received an order from Babcock Scandinavian Air Ambulance for the first medevac-configured Cessna Citation Latitude and 10 Beechcraft King Air 250s. Deliveries of the aircraft, valued at $76 million based on list price, are scheduled throughout the next 18 months. Babcock will fly the jet and turboprops to support its contract with Air…
The Volocopter autonomous air taxi is expected to handle a significant amount of the city’s passenger transport by 2030. Dubai officials say they want theirs to become the world’s smartest city. A project certain to help reach that goal is developing a fleet of autonomous vehicles to handle a quarter of all passenger transport by…
There’s good and bad to be had with any restructuring. The General Accountability Office was tasked by Congress in November 2015 to research two questions following more than a decade of NextGen planning and implementation by the FAA. One, how has the agency implemented NextGen to date, the second to review the FAA’s plans to…
On September 1, One Aviation’s Eclipse 700 testbed, an experimental Eclipse 500 fitted with an aerodynamically-conforming version of the planned aircraft’s larger wing, made its maiden flight from the company’s headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Photo: One Aviation) One Aviation on Friday achieved the first flight of its Eclipse 700 testbed aircraft, an experimental Eclipse…