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Two of the industry’s leading international business jet and executive helicopter sales brokerages respectively – Avpro, in the USA and Heli Asset in Europe, announced the creation of a new division within Avpro to focus on helicopter sales and acquisition services. This creates the world’s leading independent helicopter sales and acquisition service, supported by Avpro’s

Component Control released that longstanding customer TAG Aviation Maintenance, a leading global provider of maintenance services, is continuing to improve productivity with Quantum Control as its primary operational software for TAG Aviation SA located at Geneva Airport, and TAG Farnborough Engineering (TFE) located at TAG Farnborough Airport. TAG Aviation SA and TFE are Authorized Service

As the designated business aviation airtime reseller for Inmarsat’s GX Aviation global Ka-band solution, Honeywell has signed an agreement with ARINC Direct to bring this connectivity to the business aviation market. GX Aviation is scheduled to be available in early 2015 and will utilize Ka-band satellites both to provide much higher broadband speeds than existing

Aircell a leading provider of in-flight connectivity equipment and services to the business aviation market, announces that XOJET has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOA) with Aircell to deploy Gogo Text & Talk service across its entire charter fleet. Gogo Text & Talk is an exclusive new service from Aircell that allows passengers to use

WheelTug plc reported the execution of a Slot Option Purchase Agreement with Volaris for Airbus A320 WheelTug Systems. With the new reservations the order book for WheelTug aircraft drive systems grows to 731 delivery slots reserved by thirteen airlines from Europe, America, the Middle East and Asia. Volaris is the leading Mexican ultra-low-cost airline and

Boeing and China Southern Airlines recently completed successful demonstration flights using Required Navigation Performance – Authorization Required (RNP-AR) procedures at the Kanas Airport, Xinjiang Province, China. The Kanas procedure development, which is the first RNR AR implementation in the Xinjiang Region, is also the first collaborative RNP AR project between China Southern Airlines and Boeing.

As part of RUAG’s strategy of focusing on its core competencies, from October 15th the RUAG Technology division will be known as RUAG Aerostructures. This step underlines the growing significance of aerostructures for RUAG, and clearly defines the company’s position in the expanding international aviation market. With sites in Emmen, Switzerland, and Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, RUAG

Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) has granted anti-trust immunity to a joint business between Japan Airlines, Finnair and British Airways. This paves the way for Finnair to join the existing joint business between Japan Airlines and British Airways. The agreement will allow all three airlines to cooperate commercially on flights between