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News and information on safety procedures and concerns.

News and issues relating to business, corporate and private aviation, primarily regarding turbine-engine-powered airplanes and helicopters. Subjects include aircraft, engines, maintenance, operations, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security, and training.

Agency sees no reason to adjust past random test rates.

FAA Substance Testing Rates Will Remain Constant

New developments at airports including regulations and noise issues; legal disputes; openings, acquisitions and mergers.

Inaugural Middle East Business Aviation Association Show will take place in at Casablanca’s Mohammed V International Airport on Sep. 1-2, 2015.

MEBAA Spreads Its Wings with New Bizav Show in Morocco

Peter Shaw-Smith

New developments at FBOs including regulations and noise issues; legal disputes; openings, acquisitions and mergers.

XJet has confirmed that it is to open a second Gulf-based FBO, at Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

XJet Confirms Exclusive Five-year Agreement for Dammam FBO

News and developments about airplanes, helicopters and unmanned air vehicles used in all varieties of operations, including airlines, military, business, commercial, general aviation and private.

Abu Dhabi-based operator is to invest $700 million to take its fleet size to 20 aircraft.

Royal Jet Doubles Fleet Expansion Plan

News and issues concerning the aviation charter and fractional-ownership industries and markets, including company announcements, regulations, new developments and labor issues.

Long-standing Airbus operators switches to BBJ Max as Airbus stalls on ACJ Neo.

Comlux Extends Reach with BBJ Max Orders

Gregory Polek

Issues regarding financing of aircraft; aviation insurance; tax issues for aircraft operators; new companies and people in the aviation financing and insurance industries.

News and issues relating to international air transport and cargo carriers, national airlines and regional airlines, including aircraft, engines, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security and training.

Positive results to come six months after reporting record losses

Qantas Projecting Big Turnaround for First Half of FY2015

Bill Carey

News and issues relating to civil and military unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) of all kinds and sizes, including those used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), combat (unmanned combat air vehicles, or UCAVs), law enforcement, research and other applications. Of particular focus is the FAA's planned integration of UAS into the U.S. national airspace system.

News and issues concerning general aviation, specifically airplanes and helicopters powered by piston and alternative engines (i.e., non-turbine powered aircraft). Subjects include aircraft, engines, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security and training.

Textron started operating the Aerosonde UAS through an FAA certificate of authorization awarded to the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership.

Textron Launches Unmanned Aerosonde at Virginia Test Site

News and issues regarding all manner of civil and military rotorcraft and their powerplants, including helicopters, tilt rotors and unmanned air vehicles.

Essential news and analysis on the defense aerospace business. Your trusted source for new and ongoing programs and requirements in military aircraft (manned and unmanned), engines, avionics, weapons and associated systems, including ground-based air defense.

Bell Helicopter demonstrated a V-22 with forward firing capability at the U.S. Army Proving Ground in Yuma, Ariz.

Bell Announces V-22 Forward Firing Capability

Recruits Aer Lingus CEO Christoph Mueller to oversee turnaround effort 

Khazanah Picks CEO for Restructured Malaysia Airlines

Matt Thurber

News and developments about everything that goes into the cabin of an aircraft, from floor coverings to headliners, with a special emphasis on in-flight entertainment, communications and other electronics for passengers. If it is in the cabin of an aircraft, it’s covered here.

Content Archive: December 2014

FAA Substance Testing Rates Will Remain Constant

MEBAA Spreads Its Wings with New Bizav Show in Morocco

XJet Confirms Exclusive Five-year Agreement for Dammam FBO

Royal Jet Doubles Fleet Expansion Plan

Comlux Extends Reach with BBJ Max Orders

Qantas Projecting Big Turnaround for First Half of FY2015

Textron Launches Unmanned Aerosonde at Virginia Test Site

Bell Announces V-22 Forward Firing Capability

Khazanah Picks CEO for Restructured Malaysia Airlines

Rockwell Collins Aims to Deliver Reliable IFE

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