The Weekly of Business Aviation

U.S. battery startup SES AI is targeting the urban air mobility market with its lithium-metal cells.

Wisk Aero has updated its concept of operations for autonomous urban air taxis.

EHang has conducted its first commercial flight demonstrations by a passenger-carrying electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle.

As 2024 begins, a cross-section of leaders from a variety of segments within the business aviation industry give their predictions for 2024.

Bombardier has received a firm order for 12 Challenger 3500 super midsized business jets valued at $326.4 million at list prices, from an unnamed customer.

The configuration has a regional aircraft using full electric power for short-haul and a range extender for longer missions.

Volato, an Atlanta-based private flight provider and the largest HondaJet operator in the U.S., added eight aircraft to its fleet during 2023.

Announced on Jan. 2, the transaction closed on New Year’s Day and builds on Signature’s network of more than 200 locations in 27 countries.

Aircraft sales firm Moon Jet Group, established in the northeast of England in 2015, has broken its own records for sales in a calendar year in 2023.

Airport operator Royal Schiphol Group said it plans to provide capacity for 293,000 flights in the summer season from March 31 to Oct. 26.

Australian startup Stralis Aircraft plans to retrofit a Beechcraft Bonanza with a hydrogen-electric propulsion system, aiming for first flight in 2024.

Among the avionics equipment involved were a Honeywell BendixKing KI-203 installation kit, KT-74 transponder, and KA-61 L-band antenna.

Rob Balzano, a retired Air Force Colonel and former F-16 pilot, has been named CEO of the Citation Jet Pilots Owner Pilot Association (CJP).

Pilatus has entered an agreement with Aero Centers Epps to acquire the authorized Pilatus sales and service center at Atlanta’s Dekalb-Peachtree Airport (PDK).

Joby Aviation and NASA have simulated orchestrating 120 air taxi flights per hour in the Dallas-Fort Worth region.

The U.S. air traffic control system’s recent shortcomings underscore that a true modernization is well past due.

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AVIC is in the process of certifying the firefighting variant of the MA60 turboprop.

NetJets says the union rejected a proposal to increase wages 52.5%, declined to submit the offer to its members and has not submitted a counterproposal.

Gulfstream Aerospace continues to eye the end of 2023 for FAA certification of its new G700 ultra-long range business jet, the company said Dec. 20.

Belgian climate protesters described a weekend of demonstrations against the aviation industry as “a huge success,” with disruptions at three airports.

Embraer, a Brazilian-based aircraft manufacturer, is doubling its maintenance service capacity in the U.S. to support the country’s growing customer base.

Gogo Business Aviation has received FAA approvals to begin producing Avance LX5 systems for its coming 5G air-to-ground service, the company announced Dec. 20.

The deliverable is a list of 20 criteria that can be applied to certain software and hardware technology developed for non-aviation applications.

It is the second three-month extension passed by Congress since Sept. 30 in place of a long-term FAA reauthorization bill.