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Wichita-based Raytheon Travel Air and Cleveland-based Flight Options on March 20 completed their planned merger, first announced December 20, creating the

Under a provision of President Bush’s economic stimulus package, purchasers of new aircraft can take a first-year depreciation deduction of 30 percent for

Stating that “the V-22 must lead tiltrotor technology into the marketplace,” Bell Helicopter has opted to shelve its BA609 civil tiltrotor following first

The Citation Sovereign, Cessna’s newest aircraft, had completed 15 test flights at press time since its first flight on February 27.

In early February the Nimbus Group of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., announced it had received a “commitment” for $1.2 billion to finance its previously disclosed

A virtually stagnant market for new commercial airplanes and a rapidly eroding capital base have convinced German airframe builder Fairchild Dornier to pur

Little more than a week after halting efforts to find outside investors for a majority share in its Avolar business aviation venture, United Airlines paren

A Eurocopter EC 135 T2+ (N135UW) operated by Air Methods for the University of Wisconsin crashed Saturday night shortly after taking off VFR from La Crosse

Hawker Beechcraft reported continued strong sales for its airplane offerings in the first quarter, though snags with the Hawker 4000 resulted in the Wichit

Bombardier Aerospace’s business aircraft market forecast, released last week, predicts that 1,320 business jets, ranging from light twinjets to corporate a

The 18th annual Teal Group Business Jet Overview, released on Friday, forecasts production of 14,289 business jets worth $218 billion (in 2008 dollars) ove

Florida Gov.

Fayetteville Air Service FBO is out and the city of Fayetteville, Ark., is in as far as fueling and other transient aircraft services are concerned at Drak

The FAA has pushed back its final safety report on the Arizona Cardinals’ football stadium from September 11 until October 11, leaving the stadium builders

London City Airport (LCY) has decided to go it alone with the development of a new business aviation facility, having failed to reach agreement with any of

Marathon Flight Services broke ground recently on an 8,000-sq-ft FBO at Kissimmee Municipal Airport near Orlando, Fla.

As an object lesson to those aviation advocates whose answer to airspace and airport congestion lies in the “more runways” solution, ponder the fate of Sea

Shell Aviation and Avfuel have formed a marketing alliance under which each will accept the other’s charge cards, effectively doubling the number of accept

Avfuel Corp., a leading independent supplier of aviation fuels and services, has entered into an agreement with Texaco to purchase its general aviation bus

Mercury Air Center dedicated a new hangar and tenant office on August 24 at its Hanscom Field FBO (BED) in Bedford, Mass.

After less than three years as a stand-alone company, MD Helicopters Inc.

For those toiling for oil on the roiling North Sea, the stormy nature of that piece of water keeps the possibility of rescue constantly in mind.

Bell Helicopter Textron last month announced plans to lay off 270 workers at its Fort Worth-area plants.

A Boeing Vertol BV-107 operated by Columbia Helicopters of Portland, Ore., crashed in August during a maintenance check flight in southern Montana, killing

An era has ended in the helicopter offshore oil-support business with Carroll Suggs, wife of Petroleum Helicopters Inc.

A little known FAA policy statement, dated June 1 of this year, stands to dramatically change the helicopter industry as we know it.

Honeywell is on the verge of gaining FAA certification approval for retrofit versions of its Primus Epic integrated avionics suite.

Honeywell is now demonstrating its Inflightmail airborne e-mail service aboard the company’s Citation V.

Baker Electronics has introduced a miniature multi-region DVD player that measures 2.5 in.

Innovative Solutions & Support continues its aggressive certification schedule for RVSM equipment for business aircraft.