Czech Sport Aircraft confirmed that two more SportCruiser are being prepared for shipment to the USA having been completed on time as part of the record order for 16 SportCruiser that was announced earlier in the year. Matthew Harvey, Managing Director of Aviation Trading, the official authorised trading partner of Czech Sport Aircraft said,...

Flexjet LLC, offering travelers access to the world’s most luxurious and modern fleet of private jets, today announced the launch of its new website, www.flexjet.com, which gives Owners, clients and visitors to the site unprecedented functionality. The new Flexjet.com provides extraordinary insights into Flexjet’s distinctive and evolving...

While talking about the Concorde many words come in handy while describing it. Magnificent, innovative, outstanding technology, supersonic, and many more. But I think we could all agree that Concorde truly has been a state of the art work. So how come such achievement of the humanity has been “sitting on the shelf” for more than 10 years...

Baltic Aviation Academy’s representatives are traveling to Moscow on June 9th – 11th in order to provide personal consultations for the candidates that are interested in pilot training. This is a great opportunity for the candidates to meet with the professionals and discuss all the options without traveling a long distance to another country....

On June 2, Dassault unveiled its new Falcon 5X at the Charles Lindbergh hall of its Bordeaux-Merignac facility. It rolled back the curtains on the latest addition to the growing Falcon business jet family before an audience of customers, operators, industrial partners and representatives of certification authorities. Dassault Aviation has reached...

One much discussed technology that has brought significant change into the aviation industry is definitely composites. For instance, they constitute, by weight, 53% of the Airbus A350XWB's structure. As a result, apart from reduced weights, Airbus suggests the airliner will create just 40% of the corrosion-related inspection and maintenance burden...

The first 242-tonne Maximum Take-Off Weight (MTOW) variant of the A330-300 was delivered today to Delta Air Lines. The Atlanta, Georgia (U.S.) – based airline is the first to receive the aircraft type from among 11 worldwide customers for the option. Delta has selected GE CF6-80E1 engines to power its new A330-300.   Launched in 2012 as...

Helo, chopper, whirlybird, copter…yes, it is still the same thing disguised under many names. For the first time in Baltic Aviation Academy’s history, we are writing about helicopters. And no, we will never betray our first true love for the airplanes, however, there always comes time for growth and for us it is the beginning of the helicopter...

In a context of rapidly developing and improving world, it is not a surprise that over the years air travel has changed vastly. Starting from an online ticket purchase and ending with a modern experimentation with aircraft without pilots. But what exact changes have occurred inside the airplane? Most of us did not even have a chance to try out the...

Despite multi-billion investments into new aircraft technologies and sophisticated equipment, the aviation industry remains quite conservative when it comes to day-to-day operations. This is particularly topical for the aircraft maintenance segment, where many players have reported struggling with un-LEAN processes and, surprisingly, the IT...

Russia's Kamov Ka-52K helicopters developed for use on the French-made Mistral-class helicopter carriers will be put to work in the Russian Navy, despite a failure by Paris to honor the contract, the general designer of "Ka" helicopters said Monday. "This circumstance wittingly or unwittingly led to the fact that the Russian Navy obtained...

Aviation training centre, Baltic Aviation Academy, is traveling to Turku on June 6th and 7th to participate at an annual airshow which is being organized by Turku Flying Club and support from Finnish Air Force and Finnish Aeronautical Association. Turku Airshow 2015 is an annual event with a different location for each show in order to cover the...

Executive Jet Management Europe (EJME), the European arm of NetJets-backed Executive Jet Management, has announced at the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE), a senior addition to the sales team. Janus Kamradt, originally from Denmark and now resident in the UK, joins EJME with over eight years’ experience in the...

The beginnings of regular air traffic in Bratislava and its surroundings date back to the first Czechoslovak Airlines flight from Prague to Bratislava on October 29, 1923 when a biplane AERO A-14 landed in Vajnory with a single passenger on board. Even back then in the postwar period it was quite clear that the proximity of the Small Carpathians...

Oliver Stone, Managing Director of Colibri Aircraft in London, UK The market for private jets has been a jumble of signs and indicators recently. Both good news and bad is common, and it all depends upon where you are looking. There are reasons to be despondent and reasons to be comforted. In general, demand for private aircraft is...