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Charter operator AirNet Systems has expressed “disappointment” at failing to reach a merger agreement with an undisclosed private-equity firm.

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Europe’s top court has upheld the European Commission’s July 2001 block on a $45 billion merger between Honeywell and General Electric.

Using what is becoming a popular method of escaping from French jails, three convicts broke out of prison and escaped on a hijacked helicopter on December

Construction was scheduled to begin before the end of last year on converting private Air Rice Airport on Houston’s west side into a public business aviati

Another penalty has been assessed against Darby Aviation, one of several operators involved in the crash of a Challenger 600 at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airp

As Piaggio Aero’s new Avanti II entered production last month, the company also announced it is increasing production to meet growing demand for the turbop

UK Corporate Jet Services, parent company of Southampton-based executive charter operator Club328, has purchased bankrupt regional aircraft manufacturer Av

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has certified BAE Systems’ Matador infrared heat-seeking missile jamming system for fixed-wing aircraft as an app

FBO Western Aircraft of Boise, Idaho, early last month celebrated delivering its 100th PC-12.

Spokane, Wash.-based Rocket Engineering is developing the Turbine P Baron in parallel with the Royal Turbine Duke program.

The FAA has reiterated its request that pilots submit information on wake turbulence encounters that occur in domestic RVSM airspace, including the U.S., o

Paris Le Bourget Airport is to open a new executive terminal in April.

FBO chain SheltAir last month finished building its executive terminal at Isla Grande Executive Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Acorn Growth Equities of Oklahoma City has acquired privately held King Air modification firm Commuter Air Technology.

Bombardier announced last month the entry into service by an undisclosed customer of its new flagship business jet, the ultra-long-range Global Express XRS

Delta AirElite, the Cincinnati-based executive charter and management company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, had a record year, acco

Alaska Airlines is the first air carrier authorized by the FAA to use a new RNP (required navigation performance) approach to Ronald Reagan Washington Nati

The European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) has deferred proposed security requirements for fractional ownership flights operating into Europe.

Bombardier Aerospace officially opened earlier this month a 56,000-sq-ft parts distribution center in Frankfurt, Germany.

Civil aviation experienced the highest percentage growth of all sectors of aerospace sales last year, increasing 20 percent to $39 billion.

An ongoing “supplier problem” is casting a shadow over Eclipse Aviation’s receipt of its first FAA type inspection authorization earlier last month for the

Raytheon issued a new safety communiqué to advise Beech 1900 operators of another misleading illustration in the type’s maintenance manuals.

The wing that separated from the Chalk’s Ocean Airways Grumman Turbo Mallard that crashed off Miami Beach last month showed signs of cracking in the main s

The European Parliament has confirmed a 20-percent increase in the annual budget for the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).

Ibis Aerospace’s Ae270 turboprop single completed EASA certification, and FAA certification is expected shortly.

With some air traffic controllers already earning more than $200,000 annually, FAA Administrator Marion Blakey is digging in her heels during the agency’s

Transportation Department Inspector General Kenneth Mead last month called for renewed emphasis to reduce the general aviation accident rate, noting that t

Congress may have approved FAA funding for Fiscal Year 2006 before it adjourned for the Thanksgiving holiday, but the drumbeat for user fees in future year

EADS Socata last month introduced the TBM 850 turboprop single, a more powerful, faster derivative of the TBM 700.