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First flight scheduled for second half of 2016

Upgrades to increase range by as much as 450 nautical miles

The move adds to the other Textron aviation brands that TAM AE has long represented in Brazil: Cessna since 1982 and Bell Helicopter since 2004.

Traffic has slowed in recent months, but airport operators are getting ready for the next traffic spike.

LABACE 2016 will take place August 28 to September 1, two weeks later than the usual mid-August date,

Brazilian investigators point to IMC conditions and a lack of training on missed approaches in the 560 XLS+ in the August 13, 2014 crash.

The temporary exhibit runs through February but some of the materials were donated to the museum's permanent archive.

Marson will remain chairman of LABACE organizer ABAG.

Brazil’s ANAC has approved the new Dallas Aeronautical Services composites and structural repair facility.

Under a legal cooperation treaty, the sentence of three years, one month and 10 days would be served in the U.S.

The site will be formally inaugurated later this year.

Business airport planned to west of São Paulo will see runway construction underway by year-end, and opening by June 2016.

Congonhas is cramped though convenient. There are alternatives, with the most obvious being Campo de Marte

A combi version would include a separate club-seating area as well as 40 regular seats.

For the first time in three years the weather is good in São Paulo, but this there are far worse times for Brazil economically.

ABAG and other industry associations resisted new appointments to the ANAC board based on political favors.

AGS offers ground transport for special aviation needs, and packaging.

U.S. university Embry-Riddle is levering off its historic involvement in Brazil in a bid for renewed impetus.

Latest ABAG Yearbook reveals an overall slow-down in Brazil’s general aviation activity, but increases in private aviation and training.

Various projects have ground to a halt as Brazil’s economy has hit the buffers

Brazil’s Senate has appointed a committee of specialists to propose an updated legal code governing the aviation sector in the country.

Airbus subsidiary Helibras has finished construction of its Training and Simulator Center in Rio de Janeiro.

Show organizer ABAG has been working to satisfy exhibitors who previously complained about visitor quality and few business prospects.

Scheduled tour will hit Brasilia, Curitiba, Belo Horizonte, São Pedro de Aldeia and Rio in Brazil, as well as Peru.

A hangar roof at São Paulo Congonhas Airport collapsed on Thursday during a summer storm, damaging a Challenger 300 and crushing a King Air.

The helicopter crashed and caught fire shortly after picking up four passengers in the coastal resort of Guarujá.

New AirExpo aims for South American wealthy at summer's end.

150,000-sq-ft business aviation maintenance facility will be able to service up to 30 aircraft simultaneously.

Pilot-in-command’s decision to descend below minimums was cited as a major factor.

Region lacks radar coverage but has an abundance of legal and clandestine private airfields.