Air Service Vamdrup's workshop facility in Eggemoen, Norway, has been appointed as an authorised Piper service centre.

Satcom Direct has enhanced its SD GeoServices technology with Route Alerts, an enhancement that provides pilots with advance warning of turbulence and hazardous weather.

TrueNorth Avionics has introduced its airborne connectivity service connected.aero, a hybrid cloud solution designed to amplify bandwidth.

RUAG Aviation has completed its first 96-month check on a Russian-registered Challenger 850 following its full approval by the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency in May.

Embraer has named its successor to CEO Frederico Fleury Curado. Paulo Cesar de Souza e Silva, a senior executive since 1997, will take the reins this month.

Signature Flight Support has signed an agreement with London Biggin Hill airport to operate the former Rizon Jet FBO facility.

Trip support company Success Aviation Services is expanding in Africa by providing supervisory ground handling throughout Guinea.

Cessna has powered the electrical distribution system on the Citation Longitude super-midsize jet, three weeks after mating the wing and fuselage of the first unit.

CEPA Expo, which will take place from 18-20 October in Prague, has become ISO 9001 certified.

Sikorsky's S-92 helicopter has surpassed one million flight hours in less than 12 years of operations.

The UK CAA is to open an EASA Part 66 exam centre in Istanbul, Turkey.

MRO provider Vector Aerospace's UK division has received EASA design organisational approval.

Gulfstream has completed ultimate load testing for the G500, fulfilling the certification requirements for both the FAA and EASA.

Piper's M600 has received type certification from the FAA and will retail at $2.853 million.

The UK's Helicentre Aviation Academy has launched its 2017 scholarship programme. Since 2012 it has awarded 11 professional training scholarships worth a combined £300,000.

Air Service Basel hosted record traffic during Art Basel 2016. Its FBO handled more than 380 movements and 750 clients, a 10 per cent increase on last year.

Gogo Business Aviation has signed an agreement with The Weather Company to help improve turbulence safety by delivering Weather's real-time turbulence reports and alerts to pilots, dispatch and other ops personnel via its communications server.

Flight Consulting Group, parent company of FBO Riga, will sponsor the fifth Baltic Business Aviation Forum, due to take place on 5 August in Jumala, Latvia.

Daher has appointed 208 Aviation, based at Wonderboom airport, north of Preotira, as a TBM service centre for South Africa.

Vector Aerospace has completed its first successful PT6A-140 engine test from its facility in Lanseria, South Africa.

Tamarack Aerospace Group's ATLAS active winglets have been approved by EASA for installation on the Citation M2.

Maintenance company HAITEC has received EASA Part 147 training approval for its A320 B1 CFM56 courses at Hahn and Erfurt airports in Germany.

The Embraer Legacy 500 will make its debut at the Farnborough Airshow on 11-17 July.