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2016 Business Jet Delivery Tracker

The Corporate Jet Investor business jet deliveries tracker is not intended to track the delivery of each and every business jet delivered during the course of 2016. Instead the intention is to track the more interesting business jet deliveries during the year. Of course, our definition of what...

Global Jet Capital Adds GE Veteran Labrozzi to Team

Private aircraft finance provider Global Jet Capital today appointed industry veteran Dave Labrozzi as chief operating officer. Before retiring in 2014, Labrozzi spent 35 years with the GE group, of which 22 years were focused on the business aviation sector. For 15 years he served as pres...

Niki Lauda to return to aviation through Amira Air

Veteran Formula 1 driver and aviation pioneer Niki Lauda is set to return to the airline industry following his acquisition of Amira Air (Vienna) late last year. Lauda told Die Presse newspaper that he had acquired the Austrian VIP/business charter operator from former owner Ronny Pecik but did not disclose either the terms or the value of the deal. Founded in 2004, Amira Air currently opera...

Gulfstream Aerospace appoint regional vice president of new aircraft sales for Africa

Gulfstream Aerospace has promoted Nicolas Robinson to the position of regional vice president of new aircraft Sales for Africa. Robinson, previously the company’s director of Product Support Sales for Asia Pacific, reports to Trevor Esling, Gulfstream regional senior vice president, International Sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Robinson is based at the Gulfstream sales and d...

Abu Dhabi’s Al Bateen airport expects more flights due to cheaper oil

Abu Dhabi’s Al Bateen private jet airport expects cheaper oil to give the sector a boost. The airport is anticipating a rise in flights of about 7 per cent this year, helped by the tumbling oil price. Cheaper aviation fuel makes business jets more profitable to operate. While the plunge in oil prices has taken its toll on regional economies, private jet operators hope to benefit from i...

Falcon Aviation add AW169 and AW189 to its fleet

Abu Dhabi based Falcon Aviation is to fly the latest generation AW169 following the delivery of two AW189s in July 2015, reports European Business Air News. "We have established our position as a market leader in executive aviation services and offshore oil support in the Middle East," said COO Raman Oberoi. "I believe that we are setting the benchmark for the industry in terms o...

Abu Dhabi Air Expo announce plans to exhibit 150 business jets

Abu Dhabi Air Expo has said it will be displaying 150 business aircraft during the event which will take place on March 8-10, 2016 at Al Bateen Executive Airport, reports the Khaleej Times. The fourth show, which is held every other year, will put on static display 150 ultra light business jets and helicopters. As part of Abu Dhabi Air Expo, Abu Dhabi Heli Expo will run in parallel, sh...

Gama Aviation conditionally acquires Aviation Beauport

Gama Aviation has announced that it will acquire Aviation Beauport of the Channel Islands. Once the acquisition is completed Gama Aviation will expand its geographic footprint and capture the growth potential of Jersey and the Channel Islands The conditional acquisition (subject to the approval of the Channel Islands Competition Authorities [CICRA]) of Aviation Beauport expands Gama Aviation...

Constant Aviation and Lone Star AOG to merge

Constant Aviation is merging with Lone Star AOG. The combined companies will operate under Constant Aviation and the full transition will take 30 days. “The AOG business at Constant Aviation has been growing consistently the last year.” Stephen Maiden, president & CEO at Constant Aviation said: “The AOG business at Constant Aviation has been growing consistently the las...

Lufthansa Technik delivers second VVIP Boeing 747-8

The Lufthansa Technik completion center has finished the VVIP cabin conversion of the second Boeing 747-8 in Hamburg. The aircraft has now been delivered to an undisclosed customer. Another aircraft of this type is currently undergoing completion. In the past the company equipped fourteen aircraft of the predecessors to the current Boeing 747-8 and is the leading provider for this aircraft type...

Light jet newcomers to exploit sector renaissance

Two highly-anticipated newcomers to the light business jet segment entered service in December, allowing their developers to hand over aircraft by the end of 2015 and prepare to exploit the anticipated rebound in the sector over the next 12 months. Honda Aircraft began deliveries of its HondaJet to undisclosed private owners on 23 December – two weeks after securing certification for the...

Finmeccanica Mulls Longer Run-dry Duration for Helos

Finmeccanica Helicopters (formerly AgustaWestland) is studying ways to enhance main gearbox performance in case of loss of lubrication. At the EASA rotorcraft symposium in December, Marco Tamborini, one of the company's experts in transmission system design and development, gave details on Finmeccanica's strategy in gearbox durability. Unless the possibility of such a failure is extreme...

Bizcraft Finance/Registration Forum Set for Next Month

NBAA is holding its annual Business Aircraft Finance, Registration & Legal Conference next month in Boca Raton, Fla. The agenda for the conference, which will be held from February 10 to 12, features speakers who are experts in aviation finance, aircraft utilization options, regulatory topics, tax planning and risk management. Among the new topics this year are an analysis of emerging busin...

Air Culinaire Acquires SkyTop Catering at HPN

Air Culinaire Worldwide acquired SkyTop Aircraft Catering at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y., the business aircraft caterer announced yesterday. The move brings the number of Air Culinaire kitchens to 21—all but four located in the U.S.—and increases its capacity and coverage in the New York/New Jersey area. As part of the acquisition, Air Culinaire Worldwide h...

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