With Hurricane Florence approaching, the first wave of flight cancellations later this week at Charlotte Douglas International Airport started Wednesday, but the airport remains open. Staff at Charlotte Douglas will move to 12-hour shifts and activate the airport’s irregular operations plan starting Friday evening, and assist any stranded passengers with needed supplies. Airport workers were…
Bombardier Business Aircraft and Garmin have announced a “significant avionics upgrade” for the Learjet 70/75’s Bombardier Vision flight deck, which uses the Garmin G5000 avionics suite as its platform. The upgrade, which is now in flight testing, will be available on new Learjet 70s and 75s in the second half of 2019, with a retrofit…
At the recent EBACE show in Geneva, Embraer debuted a new seat design for the Legacy 450 and 500 business jets. Jay Beever, the company’s vice president of interior design, showed us around the new design details and demonstrated how the seats are berthed. We started out on the Legacy 450, and then moved over…
The visitor center at the Wright Brothers National Memorial will reopen Sept. 29 following nearly two years of renovations. The $5.8 million project included work to preserve and restore significant architectural features of the 58-year-old building and renovate mechanical and electrical systems, according to a news release from the National Park Service. The center was…
Swiss operator Premium Jet will welcome a Pilatus PC-24 to its managed charter fleet next month. Able to land on short and unpaved runways, the aircraft is outfitted with a large cargo door and a 2.5 sqm baggage compartment that is accessible during flight. “The owner decided to buy it having previously owned a PC-12,”…
Bombardier Aerospace now has two flight-test vehicles (FTVs) engaged in “active testing” for its Global 5500/6500 program, the company announced yesterday. The flight-test aircraft—a Global 6500 FTV unveiled in May at EBACE and another representing the Global 5500—are currently based at the Bombardier Flight Test Center in Wichita. The new Globals are powered by 15,125-pound-thrust…
Salisbury, MD-based Perdue Farms relies on its Gulfstream G150 and King Air B200 to get employees to any of its nearly two dozen facilities across the country. “Some of our locations are not anywhere close to a major metropolitan area, or a major metropolitan airport, and because of that we’re able to fly in fairly…
The aircraft is currently undergoing a program of post-certification tests with special emphasis on unpaved runway operations and recently spent two weeks at Woodbridge Airfield – to the north east of London – which offers optimum test conditions to put the PC-24’s landing and take-off capabilities through their paces. Watch as the PC-24 makes its…
The N.C. Board of Transportation has approved state and federal funds for much-needed improvements to nine of North Carolina’s publicly-owned airports! Check out the article, below, for more information! The $3.7 million in funding, approved by the board during its June meeting, will be used to provide improvements such as better runway lighting, new fuel…