Civil Aircraft News

Airbus broke ground April 8, 2013, on a $600 million A320 family final assembly line at Mobile's Brookley Aeroplex, expected to employ 1,000 directly when the plant reaches full production around 2018.

MOBILE, Alabama - Construction is slated to begin on the Alabama Aviation Training Center at Brookley Aeroplex within a matter of weeks, and Mobile's Rod Cooke Construction Inc.

The wife of a man killed in a light aircraft crash in Gwynedd has said her husband was a "loving and devoted family man". Iain Nuttall, 37, from Blackburn, Lancashire died when the Piper Cherokee plane piloted by his own father crashed at Caernarfon Airport on Sunday.

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Cessna's new Latitude and Longitude jets are in the works and making progress, company officials said this week at the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition, in Geneva, Switzerland.

Malawi's luxury presidential jet, bought by late leader Bingu wa Mutharika, has been sold for $15 million to raise cash for the impoverished African country, a government official said on Wednesday.

FlightSafety International announces that it has received approval from EASA for 49 of its practical maintenance training courses under Regulation 1149/2011 to date.

Honda Motor Co Ltd's small passenger jet will not be licensed to fly by authorities in the United States until the second half of 2014, a year later than the company originally planned, Honda said on Tuesday.

There aren't many of our readers who are likely to go out and buy a Gulfstream G650, at $60-million-plus per copy, but there are a few, and those few are most likely going to find themselves not in the left or right seat but in one of the seats in back, doing business, spending time with the family or just kicking up their heels and enjoying the ... (more)

CEO Louis Chenevert told analysts Tuesday that airline profitability looks better for 2013 than in recent years.

NetJets - the fractional jet ownership company owned by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. - is the launch customer for the Challenger 350.

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has plans to recruit more than 50 pilots from its partner airline, airberlin.

Sharjah: Air Arabia said on Monday it has signed a $350 million financing deal from a syndicate of two GCC banks - Qatar National Bank and Commercial Bank International .

Gabriel Wall of Glenwood will join up to 200 pilots in a historic Blue Mountains Bicentenary Flyover on May 25, 2013.

Virgin America Inc. is rolling out the red carpet, boarding celebrities and an Austin band, and even launching a water cannon salute upon arrival for its first nonstop flight from Silicon Valley to Silicon Hills.

The East Lancashire man who died following the aircraft crash at Caernarfon Airport yesterday has been named as Iain Nuttall.

Leaders of the multibillion-dollar global business aviation industry see signs of recovery from four years of recession, they said on Monday, but they appealed to governments to ease the way ahead by cutting taxes and red tape.

"An aircraft's first flight is an important and emotional milestone," said Honda Aircraft Company President and CEO Michimasa Fujino.

United's refurbished Boeing 757-200's, which have been retrofitted with fully lie-flat beds in the front cabin.

Parker is about to run the world's biggest airline and Baldanza heads a successful start-up that has captured Wall Street's affections.