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ExecuJet, part of Luxaviation Group, is opening an FBO facility at Dubai Al Maktoum International Airport. The FBO will feature a presidential suite, double-story crew lounge with viewing deck and games room, airside hotel room suite, transit lounge smoking area and bar. The terminal will also have discrete working and rest areas with landside access...

Signature Flight Support’s Vail Valley Jet Center at Colorado’s Eagle Regional Airport is the first to achieve Tier 3 in NATA’s Sustainability Standard for Aviation Businesses. The free, voluntary initiative, developed by a working group under NATA’s environment committee, was launched last November to provide FBOs and other industry operators with a self-certification process for...

MOLINE, Ill. & DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Elliott Aviation (“Elliott”), a portfolio company of Summit Park, is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of Four Points Aero Services (“FPA” or “the Company”), a full-service aircraft repair facility based in Dallas, Texas that provides full maintenance, repair, and overhaul services (MRO) and other MRO support services...

LONDON – Dassault Aviation’s Fixed Based Operation (FBO) at Geneva International Airport, has been voted top FBO by the European business aircraft operators’ survey performed by Business Air News. Moreover, the magazine also ranked Dassault’s Le Bourget FBO number two among operators at Paris-Le Bourget Airport. Similar to Geneva, is one of the most utilised...

Construction is nearly completed on the $800,000 state-funded fence project enclosing 400 acres at the Gaines County Airport. The fence is being paid for entirely by a TxDOT grant and at no expense to the County, stressed Fixed Base Operator (FBO) Jonathan Siemons. Gaines County Commissioner David Murphree said the County submitted a grant application...

MCLAUGHLIN & Harvey has secured a contract for the design and construction of a new hangar at Farnborough Airport. Work on the hangar, which represents the largest infrastructure project at the airport this century, is due to start in the coming weeks whilst the airport remains fully operational. McLaughlin & Harvey construction director, Douglas McCusker,...

For New Hampshire, Lake Winnipesaukee, the largest lake in the state covering 72 square miles, has long been a source of outdoor recreation and relaxation, but during the past two years of the pandemic, the area has also become a refuge for private aviation passengers looking to escape high-population areas. According to Lee Avery, the...

Atlantic Aviation has expanded its footprint in the Caribbean with the acquisition of Blue Heron Aviation, one of two service providers at Providenciales International Airport in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The facility includes a 6,800-sq-ft terminal with passenger and crew lounges, refreshments, conference room, concierge, and onsite customs and immigration service, as well as...

Leesburg Executive Airport (KJYO)—the second busiest general aviation airport in Virginia and located just 35 miles from Washington D.C.—has received a second service provider with the opening of Kuhn Jet Center. A sister to aircraft management provider Kuhn Aviation, the FBO is operating from a 34,000-sq-ft climate-controlled hangar that company president Scott Kuhn built in 2020. The...

The fixed-based operator would allow QCIA to offer smaller, general aviation services like flight school, maintenance and charter flights. MOLINE, Ill. — An aviation company has announced an expansion to the Quad Cities International Airport that would allow it to offer more general aviation services. On Wednesday, July 27, Revv Aviation, a Midwestern aviation services...

HURON – Huron city commissioners heard annual reports from the Beadle County Humane Society, the Huron Event Center, and Greater Huron Development on Monday as part of the regular meeting. Kim Krueger, the director of the Humane Society, kicked off the annual reports. She noted the nationwide increase in animals being surrendered after the drastic...

Just a year after its heralded opening, Richmond Executive Aviation (REA), one of two FBOs at Virginia’s Richmond Executive-Chesterfield County Airport (KFCI), had its 30-year lease terminated by the county authority due to multiple defaults of the airport’s contracted minimum standards. In a letter sent to REA’s leadership, airport manager Jeremy Wilkinson detailed the violations including...

Project Aviation this week filed for a Circuit Court injunction to stop the town government from allowing a second company to begin work as a fixed-base operator at Leesburg Executive Airport. ProJet has served as a FBO at the airport since 2010. This month, a second business, Kuhn Jet Center, also is expected to begin...

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) – At a board meeting Wednesday morning, officials at Northwest Florida Beaches International airport made an announcement to expand. A lease amendment was approved for Southern Sky Aviation – a new fixed-base-operator, or FBO. Right now, the only FBO at the airport is Sheltair Aviation. FBO’s are private jet terminals,...

Signature Flight Support (Booth K51) has opened its new FBO facility at the UK’s Birmingham Airport. The structure replaces the previous 1930’s-era terminal that was damaged by flooding in 2018. The world’s largest private aviation service provider, Signature had been operating from a temporary facility until the opening of the new building. Construction took three...