2024 Corporate Aviation Leadership Summit

Matt Thurber

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.

Hartzell Propeller To Support Team AeroDynamix Aerobatic Group

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.

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.

Conforming HondaJets Make Debut at Oshkosh

FAA Committee Releases Recommendations To Simplify GA Aircraft Certification Regs

Redbird Shows Off Diesel-powered ‘RedHawk’

The Oshkosh, Wis.-based opened the order book on July 28 for the smallest, lightest and lowest-cost jet-powered airplane.

Sonex Opens Order Book for Small Jet Single

Jeppesen's Mobile FliteDeck VFR Available Now for U.S.

Winning Teams Display Their Craft At EAA AirVenture

Terrafugia Transition Driving, Wing Folding, Flying Demo Set for EAA AirVenture Oshkosh

GreenWing Aims To Be First To Market With Electric Single-seater

AirVenture Hosting Job Fair, 16 Companies Hiring Qualified Candidates

Lam Aviation’s Modified Columbia 300 Flying to Oshkosh

Garmin Pilot App Adds Terrain and Obstacles

LSAs Are Growing, Slowly But Surely

Gulfstream, Jet Aviation Log ‘Powerful Quarter’ for GD

News and information on safety procedures and concerns.

Saint Louis Study Finds Opinions Vary on Benefits of SMS

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.

FAA Approves Aviation Partners Winglet Fix for Hawker 800 Series

Van Nuys Runway 16R/34L Closed Through July 26

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

TAG Aviation Cockpits Going Paperless

Business Aviation Picking Up, According To Equipment Leasing & Financing Foundation Report

Gene Cernan To Receive NBAA Meritorious Service To Aviation Award

Flight Safety Foundation To Hold Inaugural Benefit Dinner

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

FlightSafety Cancels 135 Training Surcharge Plan

Ameriflight Petitions FAA for SIC Exemption

UBS Bizjet Market Index Near Four-Year Low

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

Third-largest Monetary Prize in Aviation History Awarded

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

Cutter Aviation Launches FBO At Van Nuys

Macquarie Rotorcraft Leasing Launched In San Francisco

NBAA Convention To Host Indoor Static Display Of Light Business Aircraft

Egypt Charters Prepared For Potential Evacuations

AIN Blog: Airshows, Serendipity and Food Trucks

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.