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AFRICAEd Boyo, director at Landover Aviation of Lagos, Nigeria, said, “The air transportation industry in Africa was dealt a h

The emotional roller coaster created by September 11 has forced many companies to completely rethink their international travel options.

“I hate calling problems on airplanes ‘squawks,’” Jim Schuster, chairman and CEO of Raytheon Aircraft Co., said last month.

In an interim report issued in late March, the Commission on the Future of the U.S.

To those outside Boeing, you are, and probably will be for a long time, associated most closely with the Boeing Business Jet.

News from Raytheon Aircraft Co.

General aviation continues to make some, albeit slow, progress towards regaining at least limited access to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)

A new international operators scholarship to benefit those who are involved with, or wish to become involved with, international business aviation operatio

Dee Howard, in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection since mid-February, took a major step toward recovery on April 19 with selection of a winning bid for purch

In what could be the last episode of a long, contentious drama, the authority for Denver Centennial Airport (APA) on April 11 rescinded its ban on schedule

The crash of one of the flying prototypes of the Bell/Agusta AB139 twin-turbine helicopter in Italy late last month killed a flight-test engineer, when he

In light of last year’s DOT study of the vulnerability of GPS to unintentional interference and intentional jamming, Boeing and Rockwell Collins suggest th

The shareholders of Rocky Mountain Holdings of Provo, Utah, signed a non-binding letter of intent last month with an unnamed buyer, said to be another aero

General Electric will close its Garrett Santa Barbara (Calif.) completion center this month, a result of a downturn in “current market conditions.” At pres

For the first time since 1969, NBAA is restructuring membership dues.

Executive Jet is holding a vendor forum for its NetJets Europe fractional aircraft ownership program at this month’s European Business Aviation Conference

Glenn Hess, a longtime Boeing and McDonnell Douglas senior executive, has been named president and COO of Bell Helicopter.

The first fully synchronized triplex FMS for business aviation made its maiden flight on the prototype Gulfstream V-SP late last month, said Honeywell.

At press time, as many as 50 of the 183 Citation Xs delivered worldwide had yet to be inspected for “very small cracks” in the elevator hinge fittings that

Helicopter Association International (HAI) president Roy Resavage has written to members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees to press for an

General Electric’s Garrett Santa Barbara completion center, opened in mid-1999 for the express purpose of outfitting Boeing Business Jets, is scheduled to

With the goal of promoting a better understanding of the needs and benefits of business aviation in the Asia/Pacific region, the newly formed Asian Busines

The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) and General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) have expressed support for the “General Aviation I

Continuing its opposition to any hint of a privatized ATC system in the U.S., the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (Natca) said it is closely w

Changes in flight paths around the Washington-Baltimore area, which have nothing to do with security implications, are being proposed in anticipation of th

Prompted in part by NTSB recommendations arising from the July 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island, the FAA has developed an enhanced airworthines

The Air Pegasus of D.C.-South Capitol Street Heliport in downtown Washington is fighting to avoid a death by proximity–proximity to Capitol Hill, that is.<

The NTSB has confirmed talk that the Board is “about to release” a report modifying some of its findings in the October 1994 crash of an American Eagle ATR

After 10 years in development, Sino Swearingen is now building the first customer SJ30-2 business jet, S/N 005, at the company’s 87,500-sq-ft Martinsburg,

Grob Aerospace of Tussenhausen-Mattsies, Germany, has jumped on the turboprop-single bandwagon with a four-seat, Rolls-Royce 250-B17F-powered version of it