Tag: United States

Bombardier Delivers First Global 5500 Business Jet to be Based in the United States

Bombardier has announced the delivery of the first Global 5500 aircraft to be based in the United States. This business jet, which will be available for charter, was recently delivered to longtime Bombardier customer Unicorp National Developments, headquartered in Orlando, Florida. “Our team a...

JetHQ Adds VP of Sales to Head Up East Coast Operations

JetHQ has turned to an aviation veteran to continue the company’s growth in the New York area and East Coast of the United States. The aircraft transaction and brokerage company announces the addition of John Daut as Vice President of Sales. John Daut Daut comes to JetHQ with extensive sale...

American MRO Valair Aviation receives EASA approval

Valair Aviation, an MRO services provider at Oklahoma’s Wiley Post Airport (PWA), has received EASA Part 145 certification, granting it approval to work on Europe-registered aircraft. An FAA-certified Part 145 repair station since 1998, the company specializes in legacy aircraft including the...

Four Bombardier Global jets fly more than 100,000 hours for U.S. Air Force

Four Bombardier Global jets in special-mission configuration for the U.S. Air Force have collectively flown 100,000 hours, the Canadian airframer announced yesterday. Part of the Air Force’s Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) program, the jets extend communication ranges, bridge ...

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration orders Gulfstream G550 for research purposes

Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. has announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States has established a contract for a Gulfstream G550. The aircraft will be used to support the administration, which warns of dangerous weather, charts seas and conducts envi...

Dale Earnheardt and family emerge unscathed from Citation crash landing

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...

ACI Jet to lease San Luis Obispo hangar to Skywest Airlines

North American regional airline Skywest has announced an agreement with fixed-base operator (FBO) ACI Jet to lease its San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport (SBP) hangar as a maintenance base. Skywest operations at the 17,000 square feet hangar, which was previously an American Airlines mainte...

West Star Aviation receives approval to install Winglet parts on Cessna Sovereign

MRO provider West Star Aviation has announced it has been approved to install transitional winglets by Winglet Technologies on the Cessna Sovereign. The approval is in place for the provider’s Grand Junction, Colorado facility, which is one of four full-service Textron-approved service centres...

Honda Aircraft begins construction on new manufacturing facility

Honda Aircraft has broken ground on a new wing manufacturing and service parts facility in North Carolina, in a ceremony attended by CEO and president Michimasa Fujino. The 83,000 square feet facility, at the company’s headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina, is due to open in July 2020 and...

Arrow Aviation receives approval from China’s Civil Aviation Administration

The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has approved maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider Arrow Aviation as a Part 145 maintenance organization. The Louisiana-based Helicopter specialist’s certification from the CAAC adds to a growing list of maintenance approvals from the...

Flightsafety appoints new Teterboro Learning Center manager

Aircraft training provider Flightsafety International has announced the promotion of Michael Burger to the position of manager of the company’s Learning Center in Teterboro, New Jersey. Burger, who joined Flightsafety in 2004 as an instructor at the UK Learning Center in Farnborough, will be s...

Cessna Citation pilot arrested for driving under the influence

A pilot has been arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol, after crash landing his Cessna Citation 550 in Nevada, United States. The man, named as 41-year-old Ryan Dashiell of Spokane, Washington, managed to evade serious injury after crashing the aircraft at Nevada’s Mesquite Airpo...

Luxivair SBD announces investment in green technologies

San Bernardino International Airport (SBD) FBO Luxivair SBD has announced the acquisition of low and zero emission equipment compliant with California emission standards. The recent purchases by the FBO include new 10,000-gallon fuel trucks, a propane powered forklift, electric powered aircraft ...

Qatar Airways places $1 billion Gulfstream order

Qatar Airways announced an order for 18 Gulfstream aircraft during a meeting at the White House, with Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, Amir of Qatar, and Donald Trump both present. The $1 billion order includes 14 Gulfstream G650ER and four Gulfstream G500, adding to the six G650ER and four G500...

Bombardier secures first order for Global 5500 jet on West Coast

Bombardier has received its first order for a Global 5500 aircraft to be operated from the West Coast of the United States. The undisclosed West Coast launch customer was supported by Van Nuys-based Jet Transactions in the purchase of the jet, which sold for $46 million U.S., according to curren...

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