Content Archive: April 2023

Aircraft

AINsight: Matching Words with Action

With the preowned business aircraft market normalizing, it's important to right-size pricing rather than overprice and assume the market will correct it.
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Accidents

Bizjets Sustain Two Fatal Accidents in 1Q2023

Accidents involving two U.S.-registered business jets and three turboprops took the lives of 16 crew and passengers in the first quarter of 2023.
Hawker 800XP resting at edge of runway with door open following an aborted takeoff
Regulations and Government

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport Plans To Ban Business Aircraft in 2025

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is proposing a ban on business aircraft starting in 2025 as part of a wider strategy to reduce noise and CO2 emissions.
Jet aviation Amsterdam
Avionics

Bell 407GXi Autopilot UK-Approved

Bell's 3-axis autopilot is available as factory option or retrofit on Bell 407GXis.
Bell’s 407GXi
Accidents

Vietnam Suspends Helitours After Fatal Crash

The Vietnamese Civil Aviation Authority has suspended helitour operations following a fatal Bell 505 crash on Wednesday.
VNH Bell 505 helicopters in flight over Ha Long Bay in Vietnam
Aircraft

Airbus To Build Second Assembly Line at Chinese A320 Site

An agreement to expand Airbus’s production capacity in China came during an official visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to Beijing.
Airbus A320 under assembly in Tianjin
Avionics

ForeFlight Buys Flight Analytics Provider CloudAhoy

CloudAhoy has grown from a small post-flight debriefing tool into a flight data analytics provider, and it is now owned by Boeing's ForeFlight unit.
CloudAhoy debriefing of aircraft flight
Aircraft

Wichita's Clemens Aviation Buys Rival Midwest Corporate

Clemens Aviation has cornered the FBO market at Colonel James Jabara Airport with its purchase of Midwest Corporate Aviation.
Clemens Aviation Beechjet 400As parked on airport ramp in front of facility at Wichita's Colonel James Jabara Airport

Baldwin Rolls Out External Safety Reporting Tool

Baldwin is offering a tool to its SMS program subscribers that would enable companies to receive external safety and quality reports.
Side view of business jet looking toward engine and tail
FBOs

Georgia FBOs See Ownership Changes

Two FBOs at separate Georgia airports have been purchased by competing chains.
Former Epps Aviation FBO at Atlanta-area Peachtree-DeKalb Airport