‘It’s not a Toyota’ – Grappling with rising MRO costs

opinion

Yves Le Marquand

3 Aug 26

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If aircraft maintenance was a game show, it should be called The Price Isn’t Right. An engine overhaul that cost $350,000 in 2019, today could set…

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PlaneSense launches fractional financing programme with KSD Aviation

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Yves Le Marquand

30 Jul 26

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PlaneSense has launched a fractional share financing programme with KSD Aviation, the aviation financing platform of KSD Capital. The programme is available for purchasers of…

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Daher delivers 400th Kodiak

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Yves Le Marquand

29 Jul 26

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Daher Aircraft has delivered the 400th Kodiak. The milestone aircraft was a Kodiak 100 Series III delivered to a Canadian customer from Daher’s production facility…

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Textron’s Beechcraft Denali in final phases of flight testing

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Yves Le Marquand

22 Jul 26

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Textron’s clean-sheet single-engine Beechcraft Denali turboprop is progressing through the final phases of flight testing, the company reports. The programme remains on schedule to complete…

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Hopping into new markets

opinion

Yves Le Marquand

6 Jul 26

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Hinkspiel, skola, swehi, escargot, hopscotch. The age-old game based on the idea of hopping from space to space is played by children around the world.…

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Hartzell Frontier propeller STC-approved for Continental-powered Cessna Skywagons

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Yves Le Marquand

29 Jun 26

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Hartzell Propeller has secured supplemental type certificate (STC) approval on its new Frontier scimitar aluminum propeller for Cessna 180 Skywagon airplanes equipped with Continental O-470…

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Second Star has two at the helm

opinion

Yves Le Marquand

29 Jun 26

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Will and Jaden Smith, Tom and Colin Hanks, LeBron and Bronny James. Famous father-son duos tend to capture the imagination. When The Pursuit of Happyness –…

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The juice from the squeeze – Panorama acquires 22 Caravans

opinion

Yves Le Marquand

23 Jun 26

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Why touch the $3m turboprop over the $80m Gulfstream when both create equal piles of paperwork? It is a persistent question facing aircraft financiers: whether…

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‘I don’t have any tattoos, but if I did it would be a PC-12’

opinion

Yves Le Marquand

15 Jun 26

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Just over 35 years ago, on May 31st, 1991, the Pilatus PC-12 took to the air for the very first time. It wasn’t a delivery,…

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‘A great opportunity for business aviation’, and ‘we’re building it’ says Electra

opinion

Yves Le Marquand

8 Jun 26

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In downtown New York but have to visit the shop floor in a facility upstate later that day? Just out of back-to-back afternoon meetings in…

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