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This 2019 edition of the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition was placed by the organizers under the banner of alternative fuels. A "green" touch, whose main objective is to highlight the efforts made in recent years, particularly by industry, to...

Training in NCC operations Very much like commercial air transport (CAT) operators, according to EASA AIR OPS (Regulation (EU) 965/2012) non-commercial operators of complex motor-powered aircraft (NCC operators) having their principal place of business or residing in...

GAMA 2018 report Every year the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) publishes a report with statistics that describe the state of the general aviation industry worldwide, including business aviation. GAMA is an international trade association...

Second-hand transactions in the business aviation sector have really changed in recent years and especially after the great crisis of 2008. This one, although particularly violent for the economy and for the aviation sector in particular, will have paradoxically...

The last ABACE exhibition, once again showed the extent of the Chinese business aviation potential market. According to the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for the Development of China Civil Aviation, jointly issued by CAAC, National Development and Reform Commission and...

Its 41,285 km2 of mountainous area does not prevent Switzerland from having a large number of aerodromes. Far from undergoing its geography, the Helvetic Confederation has for several decades developed high altitude airport sites called "air places". Switzerland has...

Art and aviation have always been good friends. On the basis of this principle, Agnes Patrice-Crepin and Florence Ramioul founded Aerodesign, a company that creates original artistic objects and furniture from pieces of rejected aeronautical equipment. Magnified by...

Meeting with Patrick Margetson-Rushmore, CEO of Luxaviation UK The imminent arrival of Brexit could have a significant impact on the business aviation market in both Europe and the UK. We wanted to have the point of view of Patrick Margetson-Rushmore, the Chief...

Warm end-of-year reunion at the Embraer factory in Sao José dos Campos after a twenty hours journey, as I meet the brasilian team that hasn’t changed since 2008 when we first met for my first flight test on the Phenom100. Alvadi Serpa and his development engineers are...

Luxury catering in private aviation Private aviation is a luxury sector where every flight has to be unique for the customer. From takeoff to landing, everything lies in the art of leaving an exceptional memory to the customer thanks to an absolutely irreproachable...