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AIR OPS Europe a 'crucial' platform for business aviation support services community

A wide-range of industry-leading companies from the business aviation ground services community have confirmed their participation in AIR OPS Europe, a premier event taking place 12-13 October 2016 in Cannes, France, to network, debate policy and market ground support services. Among exhibitors...

The FAA Just Released Its New Drone Rule Book

The Federal Aviation Administration released its new book of drones rules. The summary is almost a thousand words long. The full 624 page rulebook is, at roughly 170,000 words, about as long as Joseph Heller’s Catch 22. The rules are long in coming, and they have a depth that will take a while...

Hactl Wins Again at World Air Cargo Awards

Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) has once again received the Air Cargo Handling Agent of the Year Award, at the World Air Cargo Awards in Shanghai. Hactl also won the award in 2015. The award was presented to Hactl Executive Director Vivien Lau by Roberto Gilardoni, Senior Manager Freighters Commercial, Etihad Cargo, at an awards ceremony held at the Kerry Hotel Pudong, coinciding...

Happy Birthday Boeing! Seattle celebrates 100 years of the jet in museum of flight

This year is the 100th anniversary of Boeing, the Aerospace manufacturer founded in Seattle in 1916. To tie in with the centennial, Seattle’s Museum of Flight has arranged a calendar of special events, and, this month will unveil a new $23 million Aviation Pavilion housing 19 unique airplanes. Anchoring the proceedings are the museum’s ongoing &lsq...

The Ultimate Flying Experience - A Chance to Fly the Martin Mars

Coulson Flying Tankers – Owners of the Largest Flying Water Bombers in the world, the mighty Martin Mars, announced today the launch of the Ultimate Aviation Experience: A chance to fly the Martin Mars aircraft. "The Martin Mars aircraft, holders of numerous world records, are truly amazing pieces of WW2 history, as they are the largest aircraft ever built. Be...

French probe VIP 777 wing-strike at Le Bourget

French investigators have detailed a serious incident involving a Boeing 777-200ER which suffered a wing-strike and tail contact while attempting to land at Le Bourget airport outside Paris. The privately-operated aircraft (N777AS) had been conducting a positioning service from the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh on 5 June. French investigation authority BEA says the General Electric GE90-power...

Emirates announced as official airline of the New York Philharmonic

Emirates is expanding its cultural sponsorship portfolio and announced today that it has signed a new multi-year sponsorship deal as the Official Airline of the New York Philharmonic. The contract begins June 2016 and will last for a period of three years. The sponsorship includes ticket and hospitality experiences at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall and the New York Philharmonic Concerts...

Red Arrows pull out of Farnborough Air Show aerobatics after Shoreham disaster

The Red Arrows will not perform aerobatic stunts at Britain’s biggest air show for the first time in more than 50 years, because of safety fears after the Shoreham disaster. RAF chiefs have decided the risks of flying high-speed manoeuvres at low heights over built-up areas at the Farnborough Air Show are no longer “tolerable”, and the jets will be restricted to flypasts. T...

AsBAA Student Chapter and #AsBAAintheCommunity land in Singapore

AsBAA, the Asian region’s non-for-profit representative trade body for business aviation today landed in Singapore to host a series of #AsBAAintheCommunity activities and events. These included the launch of its first Singapore Student Chapter event in association with Embry Riddle, Aeronautical University, a Regional Chapter AsBAA meeting hosted at AON’s Asia Pacific regional HQ, and...

Swiss F-5 fighter jet crashes in the Netherlands

A Swiss F-5E air demonstration fighter jet collided with another plane and crashed into a pond in the northern Netherlands ahead of an air show, Swiss and Dutch officials said. Video footage posted online by news website NU.nl showed the plane in free fall for several seconds. The pilot of the plane that crashed ejected before impact and was not badly hurt, Dutch emergency services said. &qu...

3 dead after plane crashes into car near Houston airport

Tree people were killed Thursday after a small plane crashed into a car in a parking lot near a Houston airport, fire officials said. Houston Fire Department spokesman Jay Evans said the plane crashed shortly after 1 p.m. into a car that was parked at a hardware store near Hobby Airport in the southeastern part of the city. Fire Capt. Ruy Lozano said offici...

Air Charter Service: Euro 2016 charter fever nears take off

With Euro 2016 fast approaching, leading aircraft charter provider, Air Charter Service, prepares for an extremely busy period and the fruition of months of work, having already booked more than 20 aircraft to fly to the championships.   The company has been busy with enquiries since the end of last year and started booking aircraft straight after the group draw in Paris on 12th December, as AC...

Jet Aviation Basel renders ACJ350 cabin interior for Airbus to display at EBACE

Jet Aviation Basel was recently appointed by Airbus Corporate Jets to design and render a VIP cabin interior for an Airbus ACJ350, the new generation composite aircraft by Airbus, that visited Geneva during EBACE 2016. Airbus brought to Geneva during EBACE 2016 a flight-test A350 to show selected visitors, and presented a gallery of cabin interior Centers inside the aircraft. Jet A...

Special EBACE for Tyrolean Jet Services

Austrian business operator Tyrolean Jet Services (TJS) is a permanent exibitor at EBACE since 2003. Over the years TJS planes were repeatedly presented on static display exhibition. Martin Lehner told that TJS team at EBACE 2016 was represented by 12 employees. This year the presentation was almost gastronomic - offering guests original prosciutto,parmesan and drinks from the Emilia-Romag...

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Ten years of Riga Aviation Forum — insights from Zigmars Vestfals on growth, milestones and the road ahead

As the 10th edition of the Riga Aviation Forum was getting ready to open, 50SkyShades — a long‑standing Media Partner of the event — took the opportunity to sit down with Zigmars Vestfals,...

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AERO 2027 (April 14–17) saw the formal announcement of Air Charter Expo Regional – Europe by show organisers The Air Charter Association and Business Air News, made during ACE26 at Lo...