The UK Civil Aviation Authority has put forward new proposals that will make pilot licensing easier for general aviation pilots. The regulator is working to simplify the licensing process as part of its General Aviation Pilot Licensing and Training Simplification project. According to the CAA,...

The safety of people flying in light aircraft could increase following new proposals put forward by the UK Civil Aviation Authority to require active carbon monoxide (CO) detectors to be carried on some piston-engine aircraft. Proposals set out in a consultation yesterday by the regulator are int...

The FAA signed off today on supplemental type certificates to allow General Aviation Modifications Inc.’s 100-octane unleaded fuel (G100UL) to be used in every general spark-ignition engine and every airframe powered by those engines. The move was hailed by the industry as a major step in the tran...

France Air Expo, the only dedicated General Aviation, GA, exhibition in France, will double its footprint when it returns to France’s second largest GA Airport, Lyon-Bron, June 9 to 11, 2022.  After the great success of the 2021 event, organisers have already received more requests and inqui...

AsBAA, Asia’s non-profit representative body for the business and general aviation industry (BA/GA) today announced the attendance of government officials to its upcoming AsBAA Malaysia Safety Day on 18 March 2020. AsBAA Chairman, Mr Zhendong Wu said, “AsBAA’s Malaysia Chapter exists to advo...

Costa Rica’s first-ever general aviation terminal (GAT), named GAT SJO, at San Jose Juan Santamaría International Airport (MROC/SJO) is now fully open and exclusively available to business aviation operators. The GAT will operate under the name GAT SJO General Aviation Terminal. Construction...

In the past six months the UK Civil Aviation Authority's General Aviation Unit has made considerable progress in its aim to radically improve the regulation of the General Aviation (GA) sector in the UK. This is the first of a series of updates which we plan to release on a regular basis to keep ev...

Costa Rica’s first-ever general aviation terminal (GAT) which will be available to international private operations, is set to debut in time for the busy 2019 holiday season, according to Universal Aviation. The facility, which will operate under the name GAT SJO General Aviation Terminal, is...

California’s Napa County Airport has issued an RFP for a second service provider, as it looks to increase business at the dedicated general aviation gateway. According to Elizabeth Habkirk, the county’s deputy director of public works, the current Lynx facility pumped 2.25 million gallons o...

Two renowned British musicians and their baby daughter have been killed in a light aircraft crash in the Swiss Alps. Acclaimed saxophonist Hannah Goldstein and her husband Jonathan Goldstein, an award-winning composer, were on board the Piper aircraft with their seven-month-old Saskia when it we...

The Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA), which represents some 1,300 member companies in the avionics industry, has reported a surge in business and general aviation aircraft electronics sales of 14 per cent year-over-year. The growth In sales brings the total revenue generated by the industr...

SEA Group, the company which runs Milan’s Malpensa and Linate airports, has opened a new business aviation terminal at Malpensa called Milano Prime. The terminal, which was built by Italian architectural firm One Works, joins the Prime facility at Linate Airport, which together are considered ...

The general aviation (GA) structure at John Wayne Airport (SNA) in Orange County, California, is set for major changes after the Orange County Board of Supervisors approved a radical overhaul. Supervisor Michelle Steel was behind the proposal which will redefine the area available to different s...

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), for the development of a new trust framework, with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). ICAO secretary general, Dr Fang Liu, signed an agreement with ICANN, which will see the t...

Satair has signed an agreement with Honeywell Aerospace to distribute Honeywell’s JetWave high-speed, in-flight connectivity system, to a wide segment of the global business jet market. JetWave is a communication system, which operates and communicates with the Inmarsat satellite network, to deliv...