Plane Place Aviation has announced the addition of AOG/MRT services to their capabilities for the Texas and Oklahoma areas, while also expanding on-site support at Dallas Love Field (DAL) airport. The added services will benefit customers in the area, providing maintenance to Challenger 300, Hawk...

West Star is pleased to announce the promotion of Katie Hazelwonder to Citation Project Manager at their East Alton, IL (ALN) facility. Katie has been with West Star since 2017 in Accounts Payable and then Billing Coordinator in 2019. Katie obtained her master’s degree in social work from St. Lou...

Textron Aviation today announced it has entered into a purchase agreement with Exclusive Jets, LLC, operating as flyExclusive, for up to 14 additional Cessna Citation business jets. flyExclusive has agreed to purchase eight Cessna Citation XLS Gen2 aircraft to be delivered in 2024, and up to six ...

West Star is pleased to announce the promotions of four technicians to Lead positions in the Falcon, Citation and Avionics departments at the East Alton, IL (ALN) facility. Kevin Rowe, Lead Aircraft Maintenance, Falcon; Chad Head, Lead Sheetmetal Technician, Falcon; Ken Schnurbusch, Lead Avionic...

Duncan Aviation has announced its Satellite facility in St. Paul, Minnesota, recently installed the Garmin G5000 integrated flight deck in two of a customer’s Citation Excel aircraft. After removing the entire cockpit, the crew in St. Paul installed the G5000, which includes bright, high-reso...

Responding to customer demand, EAP has added the Rolls-Royce AE3007C/C1 and AE3007A1E to its portfolio. The engines power the Citation X and Embraer Legacy 600 respectively. The company also has expanded its TFE731 capabilities by adding the -4 (Falcon 50-4, Citation VII), -20 (Lear 40/XR, Lear 45/...

AVIAA, the expanding group purchasing organization for business aviation, has added LOFT as another strategic partner for its membership.  For the past 15 years, LOFT has provided experienced flight instruction to Cessna Citation and CJ pilots through the entire training process. Its unique Pa...

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has validated Garmin’s G1000 NXi flight deck upgrade for the out-of-production Cessna Citation Mustang, Textron Aviation announced yesterday. Included in the upgrade is wireless cockpit connectivity, split-screen capability, map overlay within t...

The FAA has approved Elliott Aviation’s supplemental type certificate (STC) for the MD302 Standby Attitude Module (SAM) as part of its avionics upgrade in the Citation Excel and XLS. The STC allows for installation of the Mid-Continent Instruments and Avionics unit in both Garmin G5000 and Hon...

Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and his family survived a serious crash incident at Elizabethton Municipal Airport when their Cessna Citation Latitude overran runway 24 and burst into flames. The 44-year-old retired race car driver escaped the incident in Bristol, Tennessee without serious injury, as did hi...

Multinational technology company Garmin International, Inc. has announced the FAA certification of its G5000 integrated flight deck for Textron Aviation’s Citation Excel and Citation XLS. The G5000 replaces the previous flight deck on the Textron-owned Cessna aircraft with three landscape-orie...

Jet Maintenance International (JMI), a new maintenance company, will be established at London Oxford Airport from the beginning of May. Specialising in Citation and Falcon variants, it will offer line, base and AOG capabilities under the leadership of principals Neil Plumb and Ed Griffith. Boasti...

On Tuesday, Gogo presented its 2018 Gogo Business Aviation 51,000 Five awards at the 62nd annual Aircraft Electronics Association International Convention & Trade Show in Palm Springs. Award selection is based on a dealer’s demonstrated commitment to helping optimise customers’ inflight conn...

Textron Aviation is using the Sun ‘n Fun International Fly-in & Expo at Lakeland, Florida, to debut the updated Garmin G1000 NXi next-generation integrated flight deck in the piston-powered Beechcraft Baron G58, Beechcraft Bonanza G36, Cessna Turbo Stationair HD and Cessna Skylane. The avio...

Atlas Air Service has recently been appointed the authorized service centre for Tamarack Active Winglets, completing its first  installation on a German registered Citation CJ2+ jet. Tamarack Active Winglets is currently the only aerodynamic technology on the market which can reduce aircraft climb...