Latest from Gordon Gilbert

AirCell’s AGT.02 airborne cellular telecommunications system has been certified for use on the Beech Premier I.

FBO Ireland started business jet handling at Dublin Airport last month, operating out of the main terminal.

Bombardier is trying to sell Belfast City Airport in Northern Ireland.

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D&D Design of West Milford, N.J., is marketing an FAA-approved kit for alerting Gulfstream IV operators of an insufficient air supply required to infla

Oracle software chief Larry Ellison can fly his Gulfstream V into and out of San Jose (Calif.) International Airport (SJC) at any time, according to a ruli

From now until March 29, 2005, business aircraft operators, including those that fly overseas–even if only occasionally–will be required to have a number o

In an August 8 memo, James Ballough, director of the FAA Flight Standards Service, confirmed that large-transport-category airplanes, including the Boeing

The Department of Defense is conducting more GPS interference tests in the western U.S.

The ongoing investigation into the fatal midair collision between an Air Force F-16 and a privately operated Cessna 172 near Bradenton, Fla., on Nov.

Million Air said it will construct a 20,000-sq-ft FBO at its present site at Midway Airport, and plans for the new FBO have been presented to the city of C

Eclipse Aviation announced that it will partner with underwriter Global Aerospace Underwriters to provide hull and liability insurance to owners of owner-f

West Bend, Wis.-based EMS-Link, with help from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, and other partners, plans to introduce a program

Passengers on Delta AirElite, the business-jet charter subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, can now earn frequent-flier segments that can be used on the company’

Separate NTSB investigations continue into the causes of two recent fatal turboprop accidents: a King Air E90 (N12KA) that crashed while departing Central

Online air-taxi broker CharterAuction.com has launched a program in which it will guarantee future owners of the Eclipse 500 and Safire S-26 twin-engine en

Rolls-Royce received FAA certification of the AE3007A-1E turbofan, the powerplant for the Embraer ERJ-145XR.

New aviation regulations in China that aim to ease foreign investment in the civil aviation infrastructure and loosen government controls should encourage

Aircraft Completion Management, a new company established by completion and refurb veterans Mike Herchick and Ron Gero, opened for business in July to offe

A former marketing executive at fractional aircraft provider Bombardier Flexjet has established Fractional Insider, a company that he promises will provide

The FAA has installed nearly 30 Webcams in Alaskan mountain passes, rocky coasts and remote villages to supplement the agency’s aviation weather reports.

The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) and the Professional Aviation Maintenance Association (PAMA) have sold their interests in the annual Avi

Nimbus Group, the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

T-G Aviation, based at Hamilton Airport in Mount Hope, Ontario, Canada, signed an agreement with Pratt & Whitney Canada to provide category I maintenan

The fractional aircraft industry has been involved in just seven non-fatal accidents since 1986, the year that this segment of aviation is considered to ha

Part 135 operators of turbine airplanes configured with 10 to 30 passenger seats and manufactured after August 19 must have  upgraded flight data reco

An airframe match for one or both new small turbofan designs currently under development by Pratt & Whitney Canada may be announced at this month’s NBA

The in-development 1,000-lb-thrust turbofan from startup Agilis Engines apparently isn’t a shoo-in for the Safire S-26 personal twinjet, as previously indi

The rate of pilot hiring this year by five major fractional aircraft ownership providers–CitationShares, Flexjet, Flight Options, NetJets and Corporate Air