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The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) showed that business is doing all right, with all aircraft segments seeing a modest 3.6% increase in shipments over 2022. Overall, the biggest winners were surprisingly piston aircraft, at an 11.8% increase over 2022 shipments. The runners-up were turbine helicopters and turboprop fixed-wing aircraft, training at 10.4% and 9.6% increases respectively. The IRS will begin ramping up scrutiny on the use of corporate jets for flight departments around the country, hammering those who allegedly use their official corporate aircraft for decidedly non-corporate travel -- no matter what additional damage may result.
"AI-Powered" Maintenance App Gets New Brass
NovoFlight Technologies announced a new President in Giuseppe Caltabiano, taking up the helm of the management software firm. NovoFlight (stylized as "novoFlight") is "the ultimate platform for General Aviation safety and maintenance", according to the company's own self introduction. "Powered by cutting-edge AI," NovoFlight says, its app, Aviator, delivers predictive maintenance alerts - notifying owners of problems before they occur. Since it's app-based, there's plenty of the ol' flight school app functions bundled in there too, from scheduling for aircraft and instructors to logging of flight hours.
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