Honda Aircraft Company announced that the HondaJet will make its first appearance in Hong Kong and Taipei next month. The visits will immediately follow the Asian Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition in Shanghai, China. “Honda Aircraft Company continues to evaluate new markets as part of our global sales strategy for the HondaJet,” said Michimasa Fujino, Honda Aircraft C...
State-of-the-art facility in Indiana built to handle record production Just 60 miles from the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the GE Aviation Lafayette team is focused on its own 500. This year, GE’s facilities in Lafayette, Ind., and Durham, N.C., are teaming to produce about 500 jet-engine “hot sections” for the world’s fast-selling airline jet engine – th...
Boeing announced it has officially launched its global network of Boeing Training Providers to support its Pilot Development Program. The flight schools – Avion Training, part of Avion Group in the Netherlands, International Airline Training Academy (IATA) in Napa, CA, and SAA International (SAA), a subsidiary of Velocity Education, in San Diego, CA – were subject to a rigorous revi...
Airbus showcases its new cabin innovations at this years’ Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, Germany – the world’s largest event dedicated to the aircraft interiors industry, in-flight entertainment, connectivity and passenger services. Journalists who attend the Airbus Media Briefing at our stand will be able to learn about several new A380 cabin efficiency enablers –...
Cobham Helicopter Academy has signed its first collaboration agreement with leading helicopter maintenance and repair specialist, Helisota. The partnership will encourage referrals between the two organisations, the exploration of mutually beneficial opportunities, and ultimately enable both the Cobham Helicopter Academy and Helisota to respond to new market demands for enhanced standards of initi...
Piper Aircraft Inc. and Piper Deutschland are collaborating to display the M600, the company's flagship product, at the upcoming AERO Friedrichshafen 2017, to be held April 5-8. This will be the first time that an M600 has been on display at an event outside of North America. Following Aero Friedrichshafen, the M600 will embark on a three month European demo tour covering six countries.&...
Dassault Aviation’s revolutionary Combined Vision System (CVS) has been certified by the European Aviation Safety Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration for use on the new Falcon 8X ultra-long range trijet. Known as FalconEye, the system is the first Head-Up display to blend synthetic, database-driven terrain imaging and actual thermal and low-light camera images into a single vie...
Leading Czech business jets operator ABS Jets expanded its fleet by Gulfstreams G650 and G550. Both aircraft flew directly from the manufacturer´s airfields to serve the clients and voyage through the world from Prague base. They joined two other G550s and a fleet of 7 Embraer Legacies 600. The aircraft belong to business jets with the longest range all over the world, both can fly reli...
Five and a half years after entry into service of its first GEnx-powered 747-‑8F, Cargolux, became the first operator worldwide to fly one million hours with this new engine type and remains GE’s GEnx fleet leader in total operating hours. With the first delivery of the 747-8F, Cargolux also became the launch customer of the GEnx engine that represents a giant leap forward in propulsion tech...
The Deutsche Lufthansa chief executive Carsten Spohr expects France and Germany to take a hard line against the UK aviation industry in Brexit negotiations, threatening to disrupt flight connections across Europe. "Brexit means Brexit – our industry won’t be exempt," said Mr Spohr, who has accompanied the chancellor Angela Merkel on state visits and discussed the matter wi...
Porter Airlines and Bombardier Commercial Aircraft announced that the airline’s fleet has grown to 29 aircraft with Bombardier’s delivery of another Q400 turboprop. Porter exclusively flies Q400 airliners. Porter’s home base at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport is known as one of the world’s best urban airports. It is located within three kilometers of the city&rsqu...
RUAG Aviation in Munich has completed the upgrade and restyling of a recently-purchased Bombardier Global 5000 registered in India. The customer approached the Bombardier Authorised Service Centre to install a custom configuration featuring an additional divan and then chose to optimise the aircraft’s downtime at the RUAG Aviation one-stop shop with IFE upgrades and the restyling of fur...
