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Dassault entered the world corporate jet market in 1963 with the launch of the highly successful Falcon 20 midsize twin.

This year’s Eurocopter Golden Hour Award went to a rescue crew formed by captain Daniel Aufdenblatten and rescue specialist Richard Lehner of Air Zermatt,

Swiss regional airline Baboo, based in Geneva, and Darwin Airline, headquartered at Lugano Airport in southern Switzerland, an-nounced in late November tha

Amac, the Swiss MRO company founded in 2007, opened a 90,500-sq-ft widebody hangar at Euro Airport Basel on December 2.

A German-registered Hawker Beechcraft Premier I crashed on Sunday during approach to Samedan Airport in Switzerland, killing the 48-year-old captain and th

Amac Aerospace received EASA Part 21 Subpart G Production Organization Approval in late August, a few months after it was awarded the EASA Part 21 Subpart

The Ruag group has streamlined its business aircraft maintenance facilities as part of its response to posting a net loss in that sector of approximately $

AMAC Aerospace is stepping up its expansion plans and expects to open its second hangar at Basel’s EuroAirport this summer.

TAG Aviation (Booth No.

In Pilatus’ 2009 annual report, chairman and CEO Oscar Schwenk had good news for shareholders who might have expected negative results as a consequence of

Geneva-based PrivatAir has gone through a restructuring aimed at making it a leaner, but still profitable company ready to embark on expansion in the Middl

Lufthansa pilots continued negotiations with airline management at press time over what they claim amount to scope-clause violations by the German flag car

The Swiss government has approved Lugano Airport’s plan to install more visual aids, including a lead-in light row with strobe lamps for Runway 19.

In a hopeful sign, Pilatus said it will return to full work schedules by February 1.

EuroAirport, which serves the cities of Basel, Switzerland; Mulhouse, France; and Freiburg, Germany; is home to a considerable maintenance and completion i

Switzerland’s regional scheduled airlines seem relatively well prepared to face a passenger slump expected to last through next year.

Aviation will become greener in small steps rather than the giant leaps hoped for in the recent past, but the aviation community is committed to redu

Charter operator FlyingGroup has opened new bases in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam and also in Luxembourg.

A man who has witnessed just about every step of business aviation’s development over the past four decades finally began a very well earned retirement ear

The organizers of the biennial Farnborough International Air Show announced several improvements for the next edition, scheduled to take place July 19 to 2

Ruag, the Swiss aerospace and defense group, announced a joint venture with List of Austria to offer customers a one-stop shop for simultaneous maintenance

Dassault Aviation unveiled a new interior for its Falcon 7X jet here at EBACE yesterday.

One year after the first major upgrade since its inception in the early 1990s, the Pilatus PC-12 NG remains the best seller in the pressurized single-engin

Jet Aviation Basel, one of Europe’s largest completion facilities, has to live with the long lead times unavoidable in its business, but they can be a bles

Earlier this year, AMAC Aerospace started operating from its new hangar at Euro Airport near Basel, Switzerland.

AMAC Aerospace inaugurated the main hangar of its new business aviation completions and maintenance operation at Switzerland’s EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-F

AMAC Aerospace officially opened for business in early February at the EuroAirport in Basel, Switzerland.

Most of the 125 pilots of the German regional airline Con-tact Air went on a limited strike today, disrupting parts of the Luf-thansa Regional European net

Grob Aerospace insolvency administrator Dr.

Lufthansa Technik, the MRO and completions arm of the German flag carrier, has taken over the maintenance shop of Swiss European Air Lines at Basel EuroAir