NBAA Convention News 2009

All NBAA Convention news

Charter & Fractional

Stats show frax suffering but still a key genav factor

The fractional share marketplace is changing rapidly in response to the lengthy global recession.

Cessna looks to existing market as it awaits economic rebound

Cessna chairman, president and CEO Jack Pelton has been holding on tight over the past year as the business aviation industry has taken manufacturers o
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Flying Colours boosts capacity with JetCorp buy

Two competitors with separate programs that convert Bombardier CRJs into executive jets combined forces in March, when Peterborough, Ontario-based Flying C
Environment

Jet-A alternatives pose big technical challenges

How many coconuts does a Boeing 747 need to fly from London to Amsterdam? Last year amid much fanfare, a Virgin Atlantic 747-400 with one of its four
Maintenance and Modifications

Concorde Battery STC’d for challenger

Bombardier Challenger 300 operators now have a choice of replacing the jet’s original nickel-cadmium main ship battery with a new Concorde RG-441 lead-acid
Aircraft

S/E VLJ programs still face significant hurdles

Almost 27 years after bizjet legend Allen Paulson announced–and then abandoned–the single-engine jet known as the Gulfstream Peregrine, the single-engine v

High-end customer base helps BBJ chart path through recession

Boeing Business Jets announced in May at EBACE that its then-president Steve Hill would be retiring in July after 30 years at Boeing and that BBJ chief
Aircraft

Supersonic bizjet designers troll for manufacturing partners

If paper was aluminum, glass and titanium instead of just paper, two Nevada-based groups developing supersonic business jet designs would have revolutionar
Accidents

10 years on, NBAA notes anniversary of Stewart crash

October 25 marks the 10th anniversary of an event that shocked the worlds of aviation and golf when one of the game’s greats–Payne Stewart–lost his life af
Aircraft

Five-year Euro SSBJ study inconclusive as to engine type

High-Speed AirCraft (Hisac), a European research program studying the feasibility of a supersonic business jet (SSBJ), is coming to a close at the end of t