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Charter & Fractional

EBAA Renews Calls For Transparency in Charter Contracts

EBAA's September 3 webinar focused on what changes might be needed for aircraft charter, sales and acquisitions, as well as finance.
Aircraft

Connect Skies Broker To Focus on Sustainable Aircraft

Veteran broker Gabriella Somerville is launching Connect Skies to promote more sustainable business aircraft and charter operations.
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FutureFlight

Connect Skies Aims to Make Business Aviation More Sustainable

Connect Skies is a new UK-based venture being launched by veteran aircraft and charter broker Gabriella Somerville.
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FutureFlight

Honeywell's New Lab Gives UAM Aircraft Developers Hands-on Experience of Flight Controls

Honeywell has equipped a research and development lab in Phoenix with a replica cockpit for a generic urban air mobility aircraft.
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FutureFlight

Pipistrel Unveils Nuuva Family of Hybrid-Electric Cargo UAVs

The Nuuva V300 is for heavier, long-range missions, while the smaller V20 UAV is for light courier, last-mile services.
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FutureFlight

Piper Sues eVTOL Startup Archer Aviation For Alleged Trademark Infringement

Archer Aviation launched its eVTOL program in May 2020, but has yet to announce a name for the four-seat, fixed wing model.
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Airports

Virginia Airport Issues Hangar RFPs

Seeking to bolster the hangar space at Manassas Regional Airport in Virginia, the city of Manassas has issued a pair of RFPs.

Hyundai's Urban Air Mobility Division Joins GAMA

The decision to become a member of GAMA's associate member full category comes as Hyundai explores development of an eVTOL with Uber Elevate.
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Avionics

L2 Looks To Bring Its Avionics Expertise to Bizav

L2 has largely served as a provider of avionics engineering, parts, certification, installation, and manufacturing to Airbus and Boeing aircraft.
Aircraft

McCauley Receives FAA Cert for SkyCourier Propeller

The McCauley C779 propeller is expected to enhance the new Cessna SkyCourier's performance.
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Cabin Interior and Electronics

Duncan Completes Battle Creek Design Center Renovation

Duncan Aviation's months-long renovation of the Battle Creek design center is aimed at providing better organization and efficiency.

API Updates Outplacement Services

The latest updates to API's "Your Best Foot Forward" outplacement support services are designed to enhance the platform to meet Covid-related challenges.
Charter & Fractional

Foley: Air Charter Rebound Could Be Short-lived

Business travel this fall likely not poised for a similar rally seen by charter operators this summer.
Aircraft

Embraer to Cut Brazilian Workforce by 900

Covid-19 effects and a failed effort to create a joint venture with Boeing has led Embraer to shed another 4.5 percent of its workforce.
Aircraft

Qatar’s Al Baker Calls on Boeing To ‘Oblige’ on Delivery Talks

After reaching a deal with Airbus to delay deliveries, Al Baker presses Boeing to stand with the airline in difficult times.
Aircraft

Piper Sues eVTOL Startup Archer for Trademark Violation

Archer Aviation is developing an as-yet unnamed four-seat, all-electric eVTOL aircraft that it launched in May 2020.
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Airports

West Virginia Airport Joins the Avfuel Network

MRB Aviation at Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport/Shepherd Field (MRB) is the latest to join the Avfuel branded dealer network.
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Aircraft

Airbus’s Satair Unit Takes Control of A220 Parts Support

The transfer of A220 material management to Satair marks the integration of one of the last vestiges of Bombardier’s C Series program into Airbus.
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AINdebrief Episode 23 | September 3, 2020

Turtles Fly Too, Saudis Allow Overflights From Israel, New Test Hels Prevent DEF Contamination of Jet-A, JetNet Midyear Report of Preowned Bizjets, Air Ch
Rotorcraft

Bristow Rebrands Helicopter Operation in Brazil

Bristow Group is rebranding its wholly-owned Brazilian subsidiary Aeroleo and is writing off its investment in another Brazilian operator Lider.
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API's Barden Urges Bizav Execs To Foster Travel Return

API's Sheryl Barden calls on flight department execs to actively engage with their organizations to encourage a return to flying aboard company aircraft.
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Fuel

DEF Field Test Kit Now Available for Aircraft Fuelers

After several incidents where business aircraft had their fuel systems contaminated with diesel exhaust fluid, a new field test kit is now available.
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GAMA Opens Annual Design Challenge

Participation in the 2021 Aviation Design Challenge is open to the first 150 schools that register.
Rotorcraft

Airbus To Begin UH-72B Army Deliveries in 2021

The updated helicopter replaces the tailrotor on the UH-72A Lakota with a Fenestron.
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Airlines

United To Furlough More Than 16,000 Employees

Extension of the U.S. government’s Payroll Support Program could avoid the need for involuntary cuts until the first quarter of 2021, said United Airlines.
Maintenance and Modifications

Concorde Rolls Out New Piper M500, M600 Batteries

TSO approved and STC'd on the Piper M500 and M600, the RG-41/53 provides nearly 40 percent more starting power and reserve capacity.
Maintenance and Modifications

New Nextant Partnership Expands NDT Beyond Aviation

Nextant Aerospace is partnering with Veracity Technology Solutions to offer non-destructive testing to industries outside aviation.

JetNet: Bizav Market Not Panicked by Covid

The business aviation market has seen little sign of panic selling in the first half of the year as a result of the Covid pandemic, says JetNet.
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Maintenance and Modifications

Duncan Gives New Life to Aging Dassault Falcon 900B

Duncan Aviation completely revamped the look of a 32-year-old Falcon 900B inside and out with new paint and interior.
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Rotorcraft

Tokyo Government Evaluating Leonardo AW609 Tiltrotor

Tokyo’s Metropolitan Government is evaluating the Leonardo AW609 tiltrotor to deliver service to Ogasawara island.