2024 Corporate Aviation Leadership Summit

Matt Thurber

New Rotortech 2014 Show Lands in Australia 

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.

AIN Blog: A Much Better Way To Do Aviation's Business

New developments and products in avionics, specifically about aircraft electronics in the cockpit.

Duncan Completes Second Falcon 900B Universal Avionics Cockpit

Radenna Opens Order Book for Dual-band AHRS Unit

AEA Partners with NextGen Fund for ADS-B Loan Help

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

STAjets Growing To Meet Southern California Charter Demand

Cockpit Avionics 2014

News about bills, laws, regulations and other governmental decisions affecting aviation and aerospace. Topics include FAA re-authorizations, taxes on fuel and aviation activities, environmental legislation, ICAO decisions, governmental mediation of labor conflicts and World Trade Organization disputes and decisions.

Santa Monica Airport Case Headed to Judge for Hearing

ProFlight Nextgen Trainer Improves Training Quality and Shortens Training Time

ADS-B Solutions Increasingly Available for Business Aircraft

Garmin Offers G5000 Training Entirely Online

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

Heli-Expo 2014 Preview

News about simulators and training procedures, as well as workforce.

PilotEdge offers real-time air traffic control for simulator flyers.

With PilotEdge Live ATC Feed, Online Sim Training gets Real

FltPlan Go App Offers Free Charts, Moving-map Services

ASIG flyTab Class 2 iPad EFB Completes Flight Testing

Globalair FBO Fuel Prices App Now Uses Geolocation

GPS Shows Globalair.com App Users Where to Find Low-cost Fuel

Grrrilla Adds Internet to Portable Airborne Telecom

TSA, At Last, Issues Final Repair Station Security Rules

News and issues about aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), covering all segments of the aviation industry; and modifications for aircraft and engines. Subjects include product support of aircraft, engines and avionics, MRO company mergers, acquisitions, announcements and personnel, Airworthiness Directives, Supplemental Type Certificate approvals and other topics.

NIAR Offering Oil Analysis Service for All Engine Types

NBAA CAM Study Groups Help Attract New Students

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.

Greenpoint Signs Second Private Boeing 787 Completion Contract

Nordam Consolidating Wichita Facility with Tulsa Division

Great Lakes Aviation Conference Opens February 14

Cutter Aviation Awarded Beechjet/Hawker 400XP ASC

Gulfstream Luton Approved For G280 Maintenance

News and issues relating to the aerospace industry that are related to the science, engineering and business of flight in space involving civil, industrial and military applications, and similar topics related to flight in the atmosphere of the Earth that are not covered more directly by other AINonline subject channels. In other words, both astronautical and aeronautical subjects, except for those aeronautical topics that are specifically covered elsewhere on this website.

English Language Requirement Explained

New Baffles Keep Bonanzas and Barons Cool

U.S. Government Wants Santa Monica Airport Suit Tossed

AIN Blog: How Wrong-airport Landings Could Happen and How They Can Be Prevented

Matt Thurber, editor-in-chief at AIN Media Group, has been flying since 1975 and writing about aviation since 1978 and now has the best job in the world, running editorial operations for Aviation International News, Business Jet Traveler, and FutureFlight.aero. In addition to working as an A&amp;P mechanic on everything from Piper Cubs to turboprops, Matt taught flying at his father’s flight school in Plymouth, Mass., in the early 1980s, flew for an aircraft owner/pilot, and for two summer seasons hunted swordfish near the George’s Banks off the East Coast from a Piper Super Cub. An ATP certificated fixed-wing pilot and CFII and commercial helicopter pilot, Matt is type-rated in the Citation 500 and Gulfstream V/550. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Matt and his team cover the entire aviation scene including business aircraft, helicopters, avionics, safety, manufacturing, charter, fractionals, technology, air transport, advanced air mobility, defense, and other subjects of interest to AIN, BJT, and FutureFlight readers.