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Despite sagging economies worldwide, the demand for CRJ200 conversions to executive configuration appears to be gaining momentum.

Ocean Sky, a UK-based executive charter operator rapidly expanding its services, has acquired Dean Aircraft Interiors.

Project Phoenix, launched in 2007 to broker the acquisition and sale of CRJ200 regional jets in an executive configuration, recently announced an agreement

Jet Aviation Basel has completed its 35,520-sq-ft hangar 1A extension, an addition that will better accommodate its cabin completion work on green Falcons.

StandardAero’s Los Angeles engine shop has been serving the business aviation community for 62 years.

Equipment manufacturer Thales is one of the two main shareholders in Helisim, at 45 percent, on par with Eurocopter.

After a week’s closure due to an occupation by opponents of the then government, operations resumed at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International and Don Muang a

Choosing one person as AIN’s Newsmaker of The Year for 2008 swiftly proved to be an exercise in fiddling while Rome burned.

European aerospace firms will have an opportunity to evaluate the potential for manufacturing investments and partnerships in Mexico at the MexicoNow confe

Elvis Presley’s 1962 Lockheed JetStar–the only one of the three aircraft owned by The King still in private hands–was put on the auction block December 19

Airbus last month established the Airbus Corporate Foundation to coordinate charitable activities among its employees, aviation associations and internatio

OnAir has signed its first executive contract and will provide its Mobile OnAir package for installation in an Airbus A319 owned by a Middle East customer.

Pilatus Aircraft has appointed Pro-Star Aviation of Londonderry, N.H., a new sales representative and service center for its PC-12NG turboprop single in th

Aircraft spares and logistics specialist AJ Walter Aviation has established a UK-based consortium to provide more capacity in the business aircraft complet

Paul Theofan, a veteran of more than 20 years at Unison Industries, has been named president and managing executive of General Electric subsidiary GE Aviat

The first business jet hub in China is expected to open this year at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport.

Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCAC) identified its first potential customer in Southeast Asia last month when it announced an agreement with Indonesia’s Kartika A

The roll-out of ExecuJet Aviation’s new Simply Fly lease-based alternative to fractional ownership, block charter and traditional aircraft management has b

The first private aircraft hangar certified to the platinum level by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building rating system

Avantair on December 15 took delivery of its 50th Piaggio Avanti turboprop twin–in line, it said, with Avantair’s steady fleet expansion since it was start

Piaggio Avanti fractional provider Avantair said it logged a record number of flights during the Thanksgiving holiday (November 25 to 30), “in sharp contra

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is gearing up to ask lawmakers to include in an upcoming economic stimulus bill a moratorium on the use of forei

A new forum for the European business aviation community to discuss operational issues will be held in Lyon, France, from March 18 to 20.

BAE Systems Regional Aircraft last month announced that its London Stansted airport-based partner, Inflite Engineering, completed the first conversion in t

EADS Socata last month broke ground for a factory to be operated by Socaero, the company’s Moroccan subsidiary at Casablanca Mohammed V International Airpo

Embraer last month said it has received no indication that a Chinese government recommendation to its airlines to cancel or delay delivery of aircraft sche

The Trump Organization and Sentient Flight Group have signed a partnership agreement in which Trump clients will have special access to Sentient’s programs

Fractional share operator Flight Options has furloughed more than 100 pilots, according to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 1108, which is

Sparta, N.J.-based business aviation consultancy Brian Foley Associates last month said it believes the business jet market will recover sooner than previo

EADS Socata last month appointed Executive Airlines the long-term area sales representative for the TBM 850 turboprop single in Australia and New Zealand.