Content Archive: May 2022

Aircraft

Textron Aviation Announces EBACE Aircraft Lineup

Three of Textron Aviations newest business aircraft types will be making their debut at EBACE static display.
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Accidents

Tibet Airlines A319 Bursts into Flames after Runway Excursion

No deaths reported among the 122 passengers and crew aboard a Tibet Airlines A319 that crashed and caught fire in southwestern China Thursday.
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FBOs

Sheltair Expands Savannah FBO

Sheltair broke ground this week on a new hangar project at its Savannah Hilton Head International Airport FBO.
Aircraft

Signature TechnicAir MRO Approved for HondaJet Mx

Signature TechnicAir’s line maintenance and mobile service units based at four other London-area airports also will provide HondaJet support.
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Raytheon Invests in Hermeus as Avionics Testing Begins

Raytheon's RTX Ventures is making a strategic investment in Hermeus as the hypersonic technology developer begins avionics testing.
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Accidents

Tail Contamination, W&B Eyed in PC-12 Fatal Crash

Accumulated snow/ice, excessive gross weight, and out-of-limit center of gravity are among factors eyed by investigators of a Pilatus PC-12 crash.
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WingX: Bizav Soaring in May

For the first part of May global business jet activity was up by 23 percent compared with the same period last year and 9 percent over pre-pandemic 2019.
Safety

Baldwin Integrates JumpSeat Crowdsourced App into FRAT

Introduced last year and now with several thousand users, JumpSeat's crowdsourced app enables pilots to share and access operational information.

Embraer Looks To Add 1,000 Workers to Payroll

Embraer is hiring as it eyes growth in aircraft deliveries.
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Charter & Fractional

Wheels Up Reports Record Revenues, Large Losses in 1Q22

Wheels Up Q1 revenues topped $325 million, but it lost $89 million in the process.