Business & Commercial Aviation

By Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.
The election season is fully underway in the United States. This will certainly impact business and general aviation.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Jeremy Kariuki
Listen in as Wastefront CEO Vianney Vales about how the company aims to increase the supply of sustainable aviation fuel by recycling tires.
BCA Podcast

By Roger Cox
The Runway Condition Assessment Matrix is a fine tool for estimating braking effectiveness on landing, but it must be taken with a grain of salt.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Roger Cox
Data captured from the Phenom 300 runway excursion showed the flight differed from manufacturer’s assumptions.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Roger Cox
We analyze the runway excursion of an Embraer Phenom 300 at Elk River Airport in North Carolina.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
Samaritan Aviation has tailored its Cessna U206G amphibian for the challenging environment of Papua New Guinea.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ross Detwiler
We can’t cover every potential for disaster, but we can try to hit most likely scenarios. It’s time for a simple “Approach In Icing Conditions” procedure.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
The developers of UL100E, a leading high-octane unleaded avgas candidate, delivered an update on its status at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ross Detwiler
Negative training can occur whenever ideas or solutions are offered that can be misunderstood.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Molly McMillin, Michael Lavitt, Bill Carey, Jeremy Kariuki
Join in as Aviation Week's Molly McMillin, Bill Carey, Jeremy Kariuki and Mike Lavitt discuss their highlights from EAA AirVenture 2024.
BCA Podcast

By Bill Carey
Alongside Harbour Air’s eBeaver in the static display area at EAA AirVenture was another disruptive technology—Zipline’s P2 autonomous drone.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jeremy Kariuki
NASA Test Pilot Nils Larson spoke to Aviation Week about the space agency's mission to develop a "quiet" supersonic aircraft.
Business Aviation

By Bill Carey
One of the three unleaded fuel candidates being developed for use across the range of piston-engine aircraft is advancing through an FAA testing regime.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Paul Seidenman
Agencies that specialize in aviation insurance are opening new locations, adding staff and improving their customer support services.
Marketplace

By Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.
A rock kicked up by the main gear becomes lodged between the elevator and the horizontal stabilizer, nearly causing a runway excursion.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Antoine Fafard
Charter and fractional operators experienced growth in the number of hours flown during Q2 2024 when compared to a year ago.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Antoine Fafard
Leading business aviation providers experienced an upturn in utilization during Q2 2024 when compared to the same period in 2023.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.
The varying conditions of unpaved runways can present handling control challenges.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Angus Batey
Concerted effort and broad-based collaboration is required if business aviation is to maintain its social license to operate.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.
Unpaved runways redefine the concept of “Use At Own Risk.”
Safety, Ops & Regulation

BCA Staff
Average U.S. Jet-A Fuel Costs Rise in July 2024, Survey Says Aviation Week Staff
Airports, FBOs & Suppliers

By Bill Carey
The NTSB is leading the investigation of the crash of an amphibious air tanker that killed a veteran agricultural aviation pilot and native of Brazil.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Molly McMillin
Ahead of AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, EAA CEO Jack Pelton discusses what's on the docket for the world's largest general aviation gathering.
BCA Podcast

By Bill Carey
Pyka and Brazil’s SLC Agricola have signed a commercial agreement for the delivery of Pyka’s Pelican Spray autonomous aerial application aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Chris Marich & Letwan Sutton
The IRS is targeting large corporations, large partnerships, and high-income taxpayers to determine whether they are properly classifying business flights and passengers on corporate aircraft used for tax deductions.
Safety, Ops & Regulation