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Textron has unveiled the Cessna Citation Ascend, the newest model in Cessna’s proven and popular 560XL series. Made public on the eve of 2023’s European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE), the Citation Ascend—by virtue of its wholly redesigned cockpit, improved performance, and a more luxurious cabin—pleasantly disrupts the midsize business jet market. Representatives of Airbus’s Perlan Mission II announced its pilots and engineers had completed a successful flight test campaign in the Southwestern U.S., thereby clearing the way for a 2023 attempt to set a new aviation world altitude record for manned, le
NFL’s Buccaneers Charter Provider Out of Bounds?
Speaking to the subject of alleged wrongdoing on the part of private aviation membership club AeroVanti, Attorney Ryan C. Wagner of Fort Lauderdale, Florida’s WLG law firm stated: “Based on the information and documentation that was discovered, and continues to be discovered, the activities and misappropriation of funds related to AeroVanti’s Top Gun Membership, are hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme.” If true, Mr. Wagner’s allegations—which pertain to two separate lawsuits recently filed against Annapolis, Maryland-based AeroVanti—tacitly set forth the worrying possibility that dozens of the private flight provider’s clients have lost as much
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Now Begins the Work
Founded in 1947 to foster the prosperity of business aviation in the United States and worldwide, the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), on 23 May 2023, applauded Congressional passage of the NOTAM Improvement Act of 2023—legislation introduced by U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (Republican, West Virginia), Amy Klobuchar (Democrat, Minnesota), and Jerry Moran (Republican, Kansas) for purpose of preventing future shutdown of the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS) by, in part, directing the Federal Aviation Administration to improve the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAMs) system.
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