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.

Fusion HUDS Now Have Synthetic Vision

Rockwell Collins Advances on SVS HUD

Rockwell Collins Highlights HUD Safety and Efficiency

ADS-B and iPads Highlights of Annual AEA Avionics Show

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.

Fans Ops Mean Another LOA for Bizav

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.

Upgraded Hawker 400XPR Takes Flight

What I really liked about the Western Canada Aviation Museum was that not only were there plenty of aircraft types that I had not only never seen before...

AIN Blog: A Gem of an Aviation Museum in Winnipeg, Canada

Group Mx Plan Offered for TPE331 Operators

Operators Complain of Ongoing RVSM Approval Headaches

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.

First Conforming Cirrus Vision Jet To Fly in 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.

IRS Memo Contradicts Congress’ Intent on Ticket Taxes

Funding Falls Into Place for Cirrus Jet Certification

Honeywell To Supply Hardware for Global Xpress Satcom

First Global 6000 with Vision System Makes Public Debut

Blue Skies for NBAA Bizav Forum in Van Nuys

Fans Is Coming, and So Is Yet Another LOA

Elliott Ready To Modify King Air 300/350 with G1000 Cockpit

Bell Picks Blue Sky Hawkeye Communicator

Universal Avionics Still Offers UNS-1M/1Msp Upgrades

FAA Grants TSO to Spectralux Dlink+ w/CPDLC

Rockwell Collins, Inmarsat Stop Global Xpress Plan

Latest Avionics Technology Rolls Out at AEA Confab

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

IRS Memo Triggers Federal Excise Tax Fears

Garmin’s GTN Trainer App Offers New Avionics Training Technique

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

Flight Training Academies Bear the Brunt of Pilot Training Needs

News and information on safety procedures and concerns.

Pilot Shortage Means Big Business for Flight Academies

NBAA Committee Proposing Better Ways To Train

Simulating loss of control: research broadens

JetFlite Expanding East To Meet Charter Challenges

The dicey situation in which JetBlue captain Clayton Osbon apparently suffered some kind of mental breakdown on a flight from New York to Las Vegas

AIN Blog: Pilot Breakdown Sure To Spur More New Rules

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.