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Unlike last year’s NBAA Convention, which was hastily transplanted from New Orleans to Orlando in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, next month’s 59th annual N

LABACE 2006 would have been the fourth Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition.

Bombardier Aerospace reached outside the company last month to appoint Pierre Gabriel Côté president of Bombardier Business Aircraft, a position that had b

Eurocontrol, the European international body that coordinates upper-airspace IFR traffic, recently published a study about business aviation in its 31-nati

A bankruptcy judge on July 14 allowed regional carrier Mesaba Airlines to void the contracts for 1,300 pilots, flight attendants and mechanics.

Into an environment in which airlines perceive business aviation as competition for high-end travelers comes a study suggesting that business aviation is n

Based on a study of 11 accidents that occurred between December 2002 and February this year, the NTSB expressed “serious concern” about the effectiveness o

There is “lots of demand” for civil helicopters in Latin America, according to Danny Maldonado, v-p of Latin American sales for Bell Helicopter. He

With an eye to expanding markets, CHC Helicopter is extending its presence in Brazil, where demand for offshore helicopter support of the oil industry is g

Two years ago Embraer had one product for the business aviation market, with the Legacy, an executive/VIP or corporate shuttle version of its ERJ 135 regio

Nav Canada is reducing user fees–or service charges–by 2 percent beginning next month.

Despite assurances from FAA Administrator Marion Blakey that the agency was near a new financing plan, user-fee storm clouds continue to roil on the horizo

For years the business aviation market in Latin America was distinguished by little more than wishful thinking as manufacturers watched signs of interest t

Seeking to dispel common misconceptions that the next-generation air transportation system (NGATS) will not provide benefits to users until 2025, FAA Admin

The FAA has granted, with conditions, Raytheon Aircraft’s request that the Hawker 4000 be temporarily exempted from certain Part 25 amendments to enable th

Under an FAA proposal issued late last month, an airline’s annual “average seat size” would have to be equal to or greater than the airport-wide target of

A long-awaited interim final rule extends until at least mid-2008 the FAA’s mandated flight-reduction program to ease congestion at Chicago O’Hare Internat

Adam Aircraft of Englewood, Colo., last month completed a $93 million funding round led by venture-capital firm DCM, a new investor in the start-up manufac

Cessna has submitted documents to the FAA that could serve as a new AFM supplement requiring flight-into-known-icing training for Caravan pilots.

The FAA is cutting back mailing ADs and will no longer mail Special Airworthiness Information Bulletins to affected owners and operators.

Expect Cessna at the NBAA Convention next month to announce the Citation CJ4, a stretched version of the CJ3 with a slightly swept wing based on the Sovere

Calculation and theory go only so far in an aircraft development program, and last month it was time for Dassault’s Falcon 7X S/N 003 to jump in and get it

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Per-seat, on-demand start-up operator DayJet said its first Southeast DayBase and maintenance facility will be at Gainesville Regional Airport, Fla.

The NTSB has started an investigation into the fatal July 19 crash of Citation 560 N636SE near Cresco, Iowa.

Republic Airways late last month exercised purchase options on 30 Embraer E175s, bringing the total number of E-Jets ordered by the Indianapolis-based regi

Diamond has increased the price of the single-engine D-Jet from less than $1 million to $1.36 million, nudging the $1.5 million tag for the Eclipse 500 ver

The NTSB wants the FAA to attend immediately to “deficiencies” in the cold-weather operating procedures for Saab 340s, as well as the aircraft’s performanc

By 2009, Nav Canada plans to install ADS-B ground stations around Hudson Bay, which straddles high-latitude airline flight paths between Asia, North Americ

Stage 2 jets are under attack again at Van Nuys Airport (VNY) in Southern California.