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Honda’s plan for the HondaJet. Engine pure-play or airframer? How about both!:
April 6, 2010 Since Honda’s 2005 “world READ MORE »

Should Onex Sell-Off Hawker Beechcraft?:
July 9, 2010 The business aviation landscape READ MORE »

The Teetering State of Hawker Beechcraft:
August 6, 2010 Another reporting period has READ MORE »

A Strategic Assessment of Bombardier’s New Global Express Family:
October 18, 2010 Has Bombardier taken on READ MORE »

Bombardier’s NetJets Order: Bigger issues at play involving NetJets & Bombardier:
While the landmark order for the Global READ MORE »

Business Aviation Backlog Reporting: Disclosure Threshold To Increase:
June 8, 2011 There was a time READ MORE »

Upcoming NetJets Midsize & Super Midsize Order: Embraer versus Bombardier:
August 4, 2011 As the industry awaits READ MORE »

Hawker Beechcraft Comes Down to Earth:
June 11, 2012 Back in the summer READ MORE »

A New Reality In Used Aircraft Valuations:
P1 MAGAZINE (August 29, 2012) In describing READ MORE »

The Connection between Canada’s Fighter Aircraft Purchase and its Business Aviation Industrial Base:
(Monday March 25, 2013) At first glance, READ MORE »

The Connection between Canada’s Fighter Aircraft Purchase and its Business Aviation Industrial Base

Monday March 25, 2013

(Monday March 25, 2013) At first glance, one might be inclined to scratch their heads at the assertion. But the nature of high profile defence procurement brings with it significant industrial READ MORE »

A New Reality In Used Aircraft Valuations

Tuesday August 28, 2012

P1 MAGAZINE (August 29, 2012) In describing the current state of business aviation, industry watchers have had a field day sharpening their prose trying to make sense of what’s happening in READ MORE »

Hawker Beechcraft Comes Down to Earth

Monday June 11, 2012

June 11, 2012 Back in the summer of 2010, I wrote a piece outlining why Onex and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners (GSCP) should consider breaking up Hawker Beechcraft. The cancellation of READ MORE »

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Business Aviation Backlog Reporting: Disclosure Threshold To Increase

Wednesday June 8, 2011

June 8, 2011 There was a time when order intake data used to be a closely guarded secret in business aviation. During quarterly reporting periods, manufacturers would only hint on details READ MORE »