A short briefing every morning: what’s new in the world of private jets, plus an aircraft, a priced route, a fact and a story from the archive.
Embraer’s executive aviation backlog reached $8.2 billion at the end of the third quarter, up 12% from a year earlier. The company also delivered 115 business jets in the first nine months of 2026, its strongest nine-month total.
Read the brief →Bombardier said it plans a first-phase $270 million infrastructure investment across the United States and expects to hire 800 people. The move includes expansion work in Indiana, Texas, Connecticut and Kansas-related training activity.
Read the brief →NetJets opened a 300,000-square-foot facility at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas with Signature Aviation. The site includes a private owner terminal, two hangars, a large ramp and 24/7 maintenance support.
Read the brief →SyberJet said SJ34 deliveries are targeted for 2029 and showed a full-scale SJ36 mockup in Las Vegas. The company listed launch pricing of $10 million for the SJ34 and $14 million for the SJ36 under its early-owner program.
Read the brief →Gulfstream flew a fully outfitted G400 test aircraft for the first time, adding cabin evaluation to the certification campaign. Another G400 test jet also set a Miami-to-Las Vegas speed record in 4 hours and 8 minutes using a SAF blend.
Read the brief →The King Air 360 is the latest evolution of the King Air 350 line, adding autothrottles, a digital pressurization controller and a refined cabin to the world's most popular twin turboprop. It carries up to nine passengers 1,806 nm at 312 knots and serves corporate, air-ambulance and special-mission roles worldwide. Range 1,806 nm, 7 seats, about $8,900,000 new and roughly $1,150 an hour in fuel and maintenance.
Full profile →Jet windows are oval because square corners concentrate stress; the lesson was learned the hard way when de Havilland Comet airliners broke up in flight in 1954. (Comet accident investigations, 1954)
More numbers →1,985 nautical miles, about 4h 37m in a super-midsize jet, roughly $49,439–$72,307 one-way for four — about $15,218 a seat.
Price this route →The G650 earned FAA certification on 7 September 2012 and immediately became the jet to have: Mach 0.925, 7,000 nautical miles, a cabin with 16 oversized oval windows and a waiting list that pushed used examples above list price. The 7,500-nm G650ER followed in 2014, the family won the Collier Trophy, and it set more than 120 city-pair speed records before production ended in 2025.
The full timeline →Cuban bought his $40 million Gulfstream V by email in October 1999 without seeing it, which Guinness World Records logged as the largest e-commerce transaction ever. He later added a Gulfstream G550 and a Boeing 757 configured for the Dallas Mavericks, plus a 767 offered for charter.
The story →LEGEND — A true-in-1964 boast that became a myth by repetition. The Learjet 23 climbed at nearly 7,000 ft/min and could reach 40,000 ft in about seven minutes — genuinely quicker than several 1950s fighters, including the F-86 Sabre that Bill Lear's publicity liked to mention. Against a contemporary F-4 Phantom it was hopeless, and against anything since it isn't a contest. The story survives because the Learjet was built from a fighter design and behaved like one.
The evidence →