The FAA takes serious the regulations regarding maintenance of aircraft and this is reinforced by the FAA administrator. He stated: “Keeping aircraft well-maintained and in good condition must be a top priority for any operator,” said FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt. “All operators must comply with maintenance requirements.” The FAA released a recent news story related [...]

The Gulfstream 650 continues to use and test its aircraft under serial number 6001.  Recently, Gulfstream, the jet manufacturer that is located in Savannah, Georgia, flew its S/N 6001 on a test flight using only an electrically powered, fly-by-wire (FBW) backup flight-control actuation system. The entire flight was approximately 3 1/2 hours and four pilots [...]

I was reading recently about the trials and tribulations of a the Embraer Legacy 600 that was manufactured in South America, had a mid-air collision with another jet and had to be refurbished in a sense.  The jet was reported to be recovered and repaired: The Legacy 600–now registered as N965LL–was recovered by a mobile [...]

There is a man down the street from my house that has the best looking garage in the neighborhood.  He has one of those special floors that is painted with that special speckled paint and inside that garage is a couple of the family cars.  Those cars are the best kept cars I have ever [...]

I have been giving some thought to the recent brouhaha about the old Speaker of the House using the Air Force for travel needs and the new Speaker of the House indicating that would not happen and that the new Speaker would be taking commercial flights like the rest of the citizens.  I am not [...]

Companies all over are trying to position themselves to stay competitive in the current economic troubles.  They are looking for any competitive advantage they can find including seeking incentives from the federal government or any extra help available.  Apparently, Hawker Beechcraft is also looking for these advantages and it is creating a stir in the [...]

In the business aviation industry we don;t get a chance to see often that jobs in this sector may be booming, but according to AIN, their may be a need to start thinking about gearing up for a boom in the pilot business and the maintenance business in the next 20 years. According to Boeing, [...]

The doom and gloom of the economy and the business aviation industry seems to only get worse as we hear of other problems with Hawker Beechcraft and their latest news of layoffs as stated by AIN: “While there are pockets of growth in the global economy, the market for new production aircraft has stagnated at [...]

It comes with the old saw of “buy low and sell high”as we have been taught from the beginning of business 101.  In recent years the grim reaper seems to have gripped the economy and there seems to be a lot of gloom and doom in every corner of the business aviation industry.  The good [...]

In the tougher economic times that we have today, there is bound to be some fallout with businesses and their employees.  Cessna is apparently encountering that same problem now.  AIN reports that there may be a possible strike looming in the future over at Cessna: Cessna Aircraft made a new contract proposal on Monday that [...]