Corporate aviation – a review of 2012

by RANA Director, Brian T Richards, published in ‘The FSC Report 2013’

On 20 December 2012 Gulfstream Aerospace delivered the first G650 to a customer. By the end of the month a further three of the company’s flagship corporate jet had been handed over to new owners. The initial deliveries of the aircraft, billed as “the gold standard in business aviation”, could easily stand as a metaphor for the corporate aviation sector in 2012. More…