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.

AirSatOne Releases New Wireless Flightstream Router

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.

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

Los Angeles Helicopter Noise Bill Reintroduced

Garmin Unveils Its First Radar Altimeter

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

Sentient Jet Says Client Base Grew 15 Percent in 2012

Aspen Avionics Co-founder Lyons Joins Avionyx

EaglePicher Li-ion Aircraft Battery Nears Certification

Max-Viz EVS Service Bulletin for Cessna Singles

WingX App Adds SmartTaxi Feature

Garmin GDL 88 ADS-B Solution Approved

AirWatch Manages Tablet Computer Deployment

CloudAhoy App Offers Flight Recording for Free

Heli-Expo 2013 Heads to Las Vegas

AIN Blog: Battery Incidents Abound, But Not All Involve Lithium-ion

Bizjets Currently Not Flying With Lithium Batteries

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.

Falcon 900B Retrofitted with Universal Avionics

UAS Market Could Be Boon for Mechanics

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.

Spartan College Sold To Private-equity Firm

AEA Survey Shows Positive Avionics Trends

FCC Seeking Comments on 121.5 ELT Elimination

Jet Aviation Geneva Approved for G650 Maintenance

Snap-on Rolls Out Tough New Toolboxes

AAR Needs 70 More Technicians

Odyssey Aerospace Adds John Turner

NATA Awards Open for Nominations

Garmin Updates Its Aircraft Radio Lineup

AIN Blog: Rules Must Adapt To Technology Changes

NexNav GPS Available for ADS-B out Transponder

Satcom Direct Does Datalink Via iPad

AdvAero’s Avanti Gets UNS-1Ew Upgrade

Rockwell Collins Releases HGS Flight HUD Trainer

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.