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The DOT issued a “show cause” notice on Executive Jet Management’s plans to launch a business jet commuter operation.

Companies that allow executives or their families and guests to fly on their aircraft for certain personal reasons will most likely be adversely affected b

Last Friday morning the Bell/Agusta BA609 civil tiltrotor flew over Central Texas with its outboard nacelles rotating forward to full airplane mode for the

German police arrested AvCraft Aviation CEO Ben Bartel last Wednesday at Frankfurt International Airport for tax evasion.

A Twin Commander taking off full length from 5,000-foot Runway 12R at North Las Vegas Airport for a VFR surveillance flight appeared never to get out of gr

MD Helicopters completed a restructuring last month in which Patriarch Partners, a New York financial firm, acquired a controlling interest in the Mesa, Ar

A study of five commercialized ATC providers by the Government Accountability Office concludes that the safety of air navigation services “has remained the

Deliveries of new turbine business airplanes in the first half of this year increased by more than 31 percent compared with the same period last year, acco

Within a decade, operators of aircraft with an mtow of 19,000 pounds or more and flying in the airspace of the 25-state European Union (EU) will likely hav

Fearing that terrorists will exploit emerging in-flight broadband services to remotely activate bombs or coordinate hijackings, the Justice Department has

Among business jet manufacturers, Cessna, Gulfstream and Raytheon are the top performers in AIN’s 2005 Product Support Survey.

The FAA proposed today to make permanent the so-called temporary flight restrictions in the Washington, D.C.

Pilots serving as second-in-command (SIC) will be required to possess a SIC type rating for operations outside U.S.

Italian civil aviation authorities suspect fuel starvation or contamination for the crash of a Tunisian ATR 72 off the northern coast of Sicily on Saturday

The first Middle East Business Aviation Conference is to be held in Dubai on November 19, on the eve of the Dubai airshow (November 20 to 24).

At the request of the National Air Transportation Association, the FAA has suspended the August 31 date for Part 135 operators to comply with airworthiness

The UK's Department of Transport (DOT) last week issued its official proposal to prevent foreign-registered aircraft from being based in the UK “by limitin

Difficult airspace and airport access combined with high costs are stunting the growth of business aviation in Asia, but governments in the region are begi

A final rule published last Friday harmonizes FAR Part 36 light, propeller-driven airplane noise certification standards with international standards and p

An NTSB investigation is under way into the crash of a Mitsubishi MU-2 while on an IFR approach to Centennial Airport, Colo., on August 5.

Cleveland-based Corporate Wings/Mercury Air Centers this week named Richard Michaels as its vice president of marketing.

With a firm order for 10 Eclipse 500s and an option for 10 more, London, Ontario-based OurPlane becomes the first fractional customer for the very light je

Zurich-based worldwide aviation service company Jet Aviation is being acquired by Permira, a European-headquartered private-equity group.

Some European charter operators might get bookings when the prizes are awarded for this contest.

German authorities have released AvCraft Aviation chairman Ben Bartel from jail some two weeks after sending him there on suspicion of tax evasion.

Denying it is re-evaluating safety aspects of the Mitsubishi MU-2 in response to requests by several Colorado legislators, the FAA said its investigation i

Effective September 1, operators will be required to use a new set of flight plan aircraft equipment suffixes to indicate advanced navigation capabilities.

Pilots will now have several more months to comply with the new second-in-command (SIC) type rating rule.

A supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking has been issued that modifies previously proposed (Nov.

Honeywell Aerospace has appointed Adrian Paull v-p of customer and product support as part of its reorganization to improve product support and customer se