The Weekly of Business Aviation

Announced earlier in August, the deal is intended to provide Joby with access to Blade’s customer base and terminals in key markets.

CEO and NASA veteran Jaiwon Shin is stepping down after several years leading the eVTOL startup.

Michael Graham began his aviation career as a U.S. Navy pilot flying A-7’s and F/A-18’s.

California startup AIBOT has officially unveiled its product line of small quadcopter drones and tiltwing, multirotor eVTOL aircraft.

Industry players are expecting a strong business aviation market for the latter half of 2025, according to a recent market briefing by Global Jet Capital.

Menzies Aviation announced the completion of its $305 million acquisition of G2 Secure Staff, doubling its footprint in the U.S.

Gulfstream Aerospace has achieved first customer delivery of its newly certificated ultra-long-range $82 million G800 business jet, the company announced.

The FAA has certified Garmin’s Autoland and Autothrottle emergency landing system on select Beechcraft King Air 350 twin turboprops, Garmin said.

Honeywell’s new JetWave X satellite communications terminal can integrate capacity from multiple satellite networks in different orbits, the manufacturer says.

Europe’s aviation regulator has released proposed noise certification rules for electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft.

China’s EHang announced a strategic cooperation with the Hefei Provincial Government to establish a “product hub” for its VT35 lift-plus-cruise eVTOL aircraft.

Reliable Robotics has agreed to sell its Reliable Autonomy System (RAS) to the U.S. Air Force to be integrated and tested beginning mid-2026.

China’s eVTOL developers have moved rapidly up the ranking of the emerging global advanced air mobility industry, displaying a pace of advance unmatched by even the West’s most aggressive startups.

Icon Aircraft Co-Founder and former U.S. Air Force Pilot Kirk Hawkins, 58, died following a wingsuit accident in Switzerland.

DAT plans to launch services from a northwest German city left without scheduled services after Lufthansa pulled out in 2024.

According to the latest Jefferies report, The Jet Set, inventories for preowned business jets in August have risen 6% year-over-year.

Abu Dhabi-based VVIP business jet operator RoyalJet is undergoing a significant leadership shake-up following the sudden departure of CEO Shafiul Syed.

Bombardier has relocated a component manufacturing site from the Los Angeles area to a larger 46,000 ft.2 manufacturing facility in Moorpark, California.

Wheels Up has sold three of its “non-core” companies—Kenyon Emergency Services, Baines Simmons and Redline Assured Security—to TrustFlight.

The charter industry is a vibrant industry but faces a number of challenges.

Gama Aviation’s Sharjah FBO has become the first facility in the Middle East to achieve Stage 3 accreditation under the IS-BAH.

AXIS Aviation is seeing a strong demand for aircraft charter and is not seeing a drop due to the uncertain political climate in various parts of the world.

KAI has revealed a standoff jammer aircraft based on the Bombardier Global 6500 business jet, developed in partnership with Hanwha Systems.

Austrian aerospace supplier FACC is reporting strong results for the first half year of 2025 and targets for the first time in its history €1 billion in revenue

This year, The National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) will honor six inductees during its 61st annual enshrinement ceremony in September in Wichita.