Content Archive: May 2008

Maintenance and Modifications

Eco-friendly APU under development for business jets

Microturbo, a subsidiary of Safran Group company Turbomeca, has finalized a partnership with Triumph Gear Systems of Park City, Utah, for the development o
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Florida-based Banyan Air Service is expanding its capabilities

Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based Banyan Air Service is expanding its capabilities to include avionics installations in large-cabin business jets.
Charter & Fractional

XOJet starting joint venture in Middle East

XOJet, the fast-growing on-demand charter company operating a fleet of Cessna Citation X and (starting this fall) Bombardier Challenger 300 aircraft, has s

Rolls-Royce forecasts steady bizjet growth

Rolls-Royce has again peered into its crystal ball and is predicting steady growth in business jet deliveries through the remainder of the decade, it said
Aircraft

Single-engine version of Falcon 7X is remote-controlled

Remote-controlled model specialist Aviation Design has started offering 1/7th model kits of the Dassault Falcon 7X business jet and expects many of the cus
Avionics

Avidyne has datalink Wx for Europe

Hoping to duplicate the success of in-flight datalink weather services that have exploded in the U.S., Avidyne (Booth No.
Charter & Fractional

Prestige Jet buys five G650s

Prestige Jet of Abu Dhabi signed a letter of intent at EBACE for the purchase of five Gulfstream G650 long-range executive jets to be delivered in 2012.
Aircraft

Piiots Take Solar Impulse Sim on 25-hour Flight

Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg recently spent their first 25 hours at the controls of a flight simulator that replicates the cockpit in the first So
Charter & Fractional

VistaJet Unveils New Flight Solutions Program

Switzerland’s VistaJet today launched its so-called Flight Solutions Program, on which it hopes to pin much of its planned expansion into the Asia-Pacific
FBOs

Edsel Ford may buy DaimlerChrysler Aviation

DaimlerChrysler Aviation, which has been on the sales block for several months, is believed to be in acquisition negotiations with Edsel Ford II, according