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UK charter operator London Executive Aviation (LEA) has opened a new base at Farnborough Airport, locating one of its two Cessna Citation Bravos there.

According to Aviation Research Group/US (ARG/US) of Cincinnati, the great majority of fractional aircraft share owners are satisfied with their program and

The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale and National Aeronautic Association have certified five speed records set by a Piaggio Avanti.

The number-two SJ30-2 flight-test aircraft (S/N 003) took off on July 21 from Sino Swearingen’s headquarters at San Antonio Airport.

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The Republican-led House appropriations subcommittee on transportation, treasury and independent agencies last month approved a new transportation spending

Dassault is working quietly on the design for what could become a supersonic business jet (SSBJ).

The number of people killed in turbine business airplane accidents across all segments increased in the first half of this year compared with the first six

Gulfstream, which has been engaged in a dispute with the FAA over whether its new Gulfstream 550 could be certified with the traditional four elliptical wi

Executive Jet Aviation owner and CEO Richard Santulli brought the fractional-ownership concept to the business aviation community in the mid-1980s.

The concept of fractional ownership in the transportation industry is nearly half a millennium old.

At first glance, the fractional industry, like the alien menace in a sci-fi thriller, appears to be morphing into a menagerie of hybrids.

As fractional ownership programs grew in size, complexity and number, considerable controversy within the aviation community arose as to their appropriate

“What’s the difference between fractional helicopter operations and fractional business jet operations?” asked one fractional sales professional rhetorical

Increasing size provides economies of scale for any business, but for fractional operators attaining “critical mass” in terms of fleet size and flight crew

The only really successful helicopter fractional operator is not in the U.S.

What is fractional ownership in Europe? Judging by the way the concept has morphed since it started to appear in the continent during the second half of th

Embraer’s Legacy is an impressive corporate version of the company’s venerable ERJ-135/145

In aviation’s early days, long-distance HF communications used wire antennas trailing behind the aircraft.

The UK’s Oxford Airport has been approved to increase its licensed runway length by 10 percent to 4,327 feet.

House and Senate staff members continued working last month to resolve differences in the two separate versions of FAA reauthorization legislation passed b

After changing hands three times in fairly quick succession over the past decade, the UK’s PremiAir Aircraft Engineering appears to be settling down and re

If you get the feeling you’re just a number when it comes to getting your medical, you may be interested to know that the FAA issues 453,000 airman medical

Chances of the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in Orange County, Calif., becoming a vital part of the National Airspace System–seemingly killed by

Archedyne Aerospace of Merritt Island, Fla., is still pursuing Lake Aircraft and Armand Rivard for a $1.4 million judgment, which Rivard has appealed, and

Extra Flugzeugbau of Hunxe, Germany, has operated under insolvency (similar to Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S.) since January and has reportedly been in

First deliveries of the Intracom General Machinery GM-17 Viper 8 executive aircraft have been made in Russia, where the much-reworked Piper Pressurized Nav

At best, a total of 300 to 400 supersonic business jets (SSBJs) could be sold over the next 30 years, according to Andrei Ilyin, general director at Sukhoi

With Czech certification of the Ae270 turboprop single now expected in the fourth quarter of this year (earlier anticipated in September) and FAA approval

Club Airways, the European scheduled business jet service, is broadening its fleet beyond Learjet 45s and is also rethinking its planned route network.