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AMAC to enter completions market

AMAC Aerospace (Booth No.

EASA gathers data on SE-IMC safety ahead of ’09 rulemaking

According to a study by UK research contractor Qinetiq for the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), commercial air transport flights by single-engine ai

Dassault aims to ramp up customer support

To support the 1,015 worldwide Falcon operators who fly an average 1.7 aircraft, logging 360 hours each year, Dassault has launched a renewed customer-supp

Farnborough airshow looks forward to 60th anniversary

For any business aircraft manufacturers that have so far resisted the temptation, it is not too late to book space to display products and services at the
Charter & Fractional

UK air-taxi service ready for ‘the VLJ revolution’

Blink has set the bar pretty high for itself in pledging to radically overhaul the business model for air taxi services in Europe with a fleet of Cessna Ci
Aircraft

Upgraded Pilatus PC-12 makes European debut

At the Pilatus shareholder meeting earlier this year, triumphant chairman Oscar Schwenk declared, “In 2007, we sold more aircraft, we achieved a higher tur

Financiers uncertain amid credit upheaval

Business aviation financiers exhibiting here at EBACE’08 have arrived in Geneva largely uncertain about the full implications of the ongoing squeeze on the

EBACE showcases broadband options

Following a somewhat protracted rollout, the availability of end-user airborne broadband services now appears ready to meet the burgeoning demand from busi
Charter & Fractional

After changes, PrivatAir looks to future

Late last year, PrivatAir sold its U.S.

Russian UBAA sees ‘significant’ growth

Compared with its presence at previous EBACE shows, the Russian business aviation contingent this year has grown to such an extent that it includes two ind
FBOs

European FBO Survey Report

European FBOs have once again scored highly in the annual survey of international FBOs conducted by Aviation International News (sister publication of EBAC
Charter & Fractional

ExecuJet Aviation wants clients to ‘Simply Fly’

ExecuJet Aviation will receive the first aircraft for its new Simply Fly program within the next three to four months, and expects to have 10 large-cabin j
Engines

PW810 finds its niche via airliner industry’s back door

What presented the impetus for the PW810’s development?When we started to talk about the PW800 family [in the late 1990s], we were talking abo

Piaggio marks milestone, while increasing output

Piaggio Aero is about to deliver the 150th P180 Avanti II to a customer and the Italian airframer at last seems to be coming to grips with an unacceptably

Honeywell pursues new greener, safer technology

Honeywell Aerospace is a major provider of business aircraft engines but the focus of its efforts to reduce aviation’s environmental footprint is at least

Bombardier predicts rise in deliveries, fall in orders

The number of deliveries of new business aircraft is expected to increase substantially in the next 10 years, but this will be accompanied by a reduction i
Maintenance and Modifications

Townsend Leather is here at EBACE unveiling its new Cosmopolitan Collection

Townsend Leather is here at EBACE unveiling its new Cosmopolitan Collection, featuring three product lines in “a coordinated, sophisticated color palette.”

Danish supplier seeks bigger slice of business aviation pie

zLeki Aviation, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based company providing product support and services to the aviation industry has come to EBACE’08 (Booth No.

Honeywell forecast: record bizjet deliveries to continue

Manufacturers will deliver almost 13,000 new business aircraft worth $233 billion in the 2008 to 2017 period, according to pundits at Honeywell Aerospace.

Engine monitoring programs take off

UK-headquartered Spectro, and Jet-Care, both divisions and trading names of Palace International, Ltd.
Engines

OEMs eye 10k engine sector

A year ago, EBACE was full of talk about which engine manufacturers would compete for the upcoming requirement for a 10,000-pound-thrust class engine to po

Helicopter makers eye surging European market

Helicopter manufacturers are now selling more of their products to business and private customers in Europe than in any other market segment.

While business aviation grows in Asia, infrastructure lags

The prospects for business aviation in Asia are bright indeed, especially in the fast-developing economies of China and India, but huge improvements are ne

ABACE Returns to Hong Kong

The Asian Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (ABACE) will return to Hong Kong next year, increasing to a two-day format, February 3 and 4.

Attention To Detail Is the Key

Air Support’s Preflight Planning System (PPS) is the brainchild of former professional pilot Per Jensen, who started working on the software in the late 19

What Does PPS Do?

Air Support’s Preflight Planning System (PPS) is a flight planning engine that produces an operational computer flight plan showing routes, flight levels,

Air Support enhances its preflight software

Air Support is unveiling the latest new features of its Preflight Planning System (PPS) here at EBACE this week (Booth No.

EGAMA lobbies for general aviation

The European General Aviation Manufacturers Association (EGAMA) was launched at EBACE’07 in a bid to more closely coordinate the industry’s interests at a
Engines

Silvercrest still on target for 2011

Though still without a launch program for its new 9,500- to 12,000-pound thrust engine, Snecma reports good progress in developing its new Silvercrest powe