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.

WxBox Offers Free Weather for iPads

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

EPA Finalizes Ground De-icing Fluid Effluent Limitations

News and information about crew, passenger, aircraft and airport security issues.

BEA Releases Air France 447 Accident Final Report

Avidyne Completes Plug-and-play Panel with IFD440

News and information on safety procedures and concerns.

Aussie Safety Board: iPhone Fire Due To Improper Repair

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.

Flying the Vision Flight Deck

Flying the Vision Flight Deck in Bombardier’s Global 6000

News, issues, personnel, equipment and developments about air traffic management.

News and issues relating to international air transport and cargo carriers, national airlines and regional airlines, including aircraft, engines, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security and training.

Aireon Will Add ADS-B Receivers to Iridium Satellites for Worldwide Aircraft Surveillance

In The Works: AeroNimbus NMX

In The Works: Dornier Seaplane Seastar CD2

Arinc Releases New Capabilities in V2.3 iPad App

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.

Western Jet Opens Reno Maintenance Satellite

A recent Aviation Maintenance Alerts published by the FAA highlights a problem that should never, ever come up in aerospace...

AIN Blog: Boneheaded Engineering Department

New EFB AC Disappoints and Delights Tablet-using Pilots

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.

Fuel Fraud Tax Remains, for Now

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

IRS looking at FETs of management companies

IRS Now Auditing Aircraft Management Firms

Part 145 Proposal Subject to Alphabet Group Analysis

Eclipse Begins Production of Model 550 VLJ

QRA app makes Eclipse flying easy

NetJets Makes Biggest-ever Aircraft Order

Issues regarding financing of aircraft; aviation insurance; tax issues for aircraft operators; new companies and people in the aviation financing and insurance industries.

IRS FET Tax Plan Now Under Congressional Scrutiny

PlaneDeck Retrofit STC’d for Older Gulfstream Jets

There is only a little time left to comment on a petition for exemption from the third-class medical requirement for pilots flying recreationally.

AIN Blog: Safety Won't Be Compromised By Third-Class Medical Exemption

VisionAire Vantage Jet Single Being Resurrected

Aireon Global Air Traffic Surveillance Planned for 2018

Arsa Asks Supreme Court To Rule On Freedom of Technical Data

Bombardier, Cessna Win $9.6B Bizjet Order from NetJets

FAA Updates Electronic Flight Bag Guidance

Essential news and analysis from the defense aerospace sector. Your trusted source for new and ongoing programs in military aircraft, engines, and avionics.

Hawker Beechcraft T-6C military trainer.

Pilot Report: Hawker Beechcraft T-6C Military Trainer

Gulfstream’s Party Submission on G650 Crash Published

Eclipse Aerospace Restarts Very Light Jet Production

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.