2024 Corporate Aviation Leadership Summit

Matt Thurber

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

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.

Flight Display Systems Intros 17.1-inch Display Mount for Bizjets

Honeywell Passes Global Xpress Satcom Design Review

Levil Adds Solar Power to iPad ADS-B Receiver

AIN Blog: Putting Safety Into Context

AIN Blog: TSA's New Knives Rule Riles Politicians

Archangel Exhibiting for First Time at Heli-Expo

Hands-on: Garmin ADS-B Receiver Delivers Weather and Traffic to iPads

News and information on safety procedures and concerns.

FlightSafety Adds PC-12NG Full-motion Simulator Training

Stan Wilson New President of Columbia Helicopters

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

Garmin Optimizes Helicopter GPS Navcoms

In The Works: How do special conditions work?

Xavion App Guides Engine-out Airplanes To Nearest Runway

Eurocopter Inaugurates Querétaro Facility

Bristow Mountain Flying Trains More Than 100 Pilots

NVG An Essential Tool For Helo Pilots

Garmin Enhances Helicopter Navcoms

NVG Night Flight An Eye-Opening Experience

Rockwell Collins Sabre Joins Evergreen Brethren

DOT Inspector General Auditing ADS-B Security

Datalink Now Required on Two Atlantic Tracks

PilotMall Introduces iPad mini Kneeboard

Satcom Direct Unveils Aviation-centric Router

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.

Parker Aerospace Sees More Fly-by-wire In Future Aircraft

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.

Parker Explains Delay in Legacy 450/500 FBW

Lithium Batteries in Bizjets Remain Scarce, But Are Coming

G650 Enters Service As Production Ramps Up

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.

The State of GA Special Report

Heli-Expo ’13 Lands in Las Vegas on Monday

Diamond Aircraft Restructures; Suspends D-Jet Again

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

Flight Options Says Business is Really Taking Off

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.