Content Archive: March 2025

Training and Workforce

AINsight: Hidden Cost of Losing a Senior Maintenance Technician

Costs to replace a critical flight department employee can easily be in the six-figure range
Dassault technicians
Safety

Nimbl Highlights Risk Assessments for Aviation Safety

Data analysis suggests key mitigation improvements
Image still from march 20 Nimbl Starr webinar
FBOs

Growing FBO Chain Adds Three Locations in Two Weeks

Launched in October, Vantage Aviation now numbers four facilities
Interior of former Monaco Air Duluth FBO
Environment

Airbus Doubles Down on Aviation Decarbonization Commitment

Aerospace and defense group partners with Solar Impulse Foundation
Bertrand Piccard and Julie Kitcher at Airbus Summit
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Gogo Plots Course for Airborne Connectivity Upgrades

About 2,400 aircraft still operate on Gogo’s legacy air-to-ground network
Gogo Avance LX5
Aircraft

ASG: Southeast Asia Leads Bizav Fleet Growth in Asia-Pac

China saw the largest business aviation fleet decline in the region
Business Aircraft at Singapore Airshow
Environment

Signature Aviation To Add More European SAF Locations

FBO chain bringing sustainable aviation fuel to six of its FBOs in the UK and France
Signature Refueler
Safety

Skyportz Tackles eVTOL Downwash and Outwash With Vertipad Design

Australian company plans to license its vertiport designs in other countries
Skyportz vertipad designs
Aircraft

U.S. Pushes For Air Dominance with F-47 Fighter Contract

$20 billion in Pentagon funding pledged to achieve first flights by 2029
Next Generation Air Dominance contract announcement
Maintenance and Modifications

Bombardier Adds Line Maintenance Station in Perth

Facility is the company’s tenth and will be joined by one in Sydney
Bombardier line maintenance