2024 Corporate Aviation Leadership Summit

News and issues regarding all manner of civil and military rotorcraft and their powerplants, including helicopters, tilt rotors and unmanned air vehicles.

Essential news and analysis on the defense aerospace business. Your trusted source for new and ongoing programs and requirements in military aircraft (manned and unmanned), engines, avionics, weapons and associated systems, including ground-based air defense.

Armed forces will be able to outfit Black Hawks with new armament and equipment.

Sikorsky Is Upgrading the Black Hawk Helicopter for Evolving Military Needs

Curt Epstein

New developments at FBOs including regulations and noise issues; legal disputes; openings, acquisitions and mergers.

News and issues relating to business, corporate and private aviation, primarily regarding turbine-engine-powered airplanes and helicopters. Subjects include aircraft, engines, maintenance, operations, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security, and training.

The airport on Lake Pontchartrain now has three FBOs

Sky X Marks the Spot with FBO at Hammond Northshore

Matt Thurber

News about simulators and training procedures, as well as workforce.

Draper to stay until the end of the year to smooth the transition

Rohloff New Textron Aviation CEO as Ron Draper Retires

Signature Aviation had been the longtime FBO operator at Waukegan National Airport

Airport To Take Over Operations at Chicago-area FBO 

Amy Wilder

News and issues about aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), covering all segments of the aviation industry; and modifications for aircraft and engines. Subjects include product support of aircraft, engines and avionics, MRO company mergers, acquisitions, announcements and personnel, Airworthiness Directives, Supplemental Type Certificate approvals and other topics.

Inspection required every 96 months or 4,000 cycles

Western Aircraft Finishes First Falcon 8X 1C Inspection

Hanneke Weitering

News and developments about airplanes, helicopters and unmanned air vehicles used in all varieties of operations, including airlines, military, business, commercial, general aviation and private.

New developments at airports including regulations and noise issues; legal disputes; openings, acquisitions and mergers.

A Midnight aircraft is on display in Los Angeles this week

Archer, AEG To Develop eVTOL Vertiport in Los Angeles

Charles Alcock

News and issues concerning the aviation charter and fractional-ownership industries and markets, including company announcements, regulations, new developments and labor issues.

Saxon Air executive Rachel Harvey chairs the group for young charter professionals 

Air Charter Association Expands NextGen Group

News and issues relating to civil and military unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) of all kinds and sizes, including those used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), combat (unmanned combat air vehicles, or UCAVs), law enforcement, research and other applications. Of particular focus is the FAA's planned integration of UAS into the U.S. national airspace system.

The company assembled the first example in around nine months 

GKN Unveils Swedish Military UAV Technology Demonstrator

News about significant aircraft accidents and information from accident reports.

Content Archive: August 2026

Sikorsky Is Upgrading the Black Hawk Helicopter for Evolving Military Needs

Sky X Marks the Spot with FBO at Hammond Northshore

Rohloff New Textron Aviation CEO as Ron Draper Retires

Airport To Take Over Operations at Chicago-area FBO

Western Aircraft Finishes First Falcon 8X 1C Inspection

Archer, AEG To Develop eVTOL Vertiport in Los Angeles

Air Charter Association Expands NextGen Group

GKN Unveils Swedish Military UAV Technology Demonstrator

Cessna 441 Crash Kills USACE Workers in Alaska

King Air Hits Deer During Landing at Canadian Airport

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