Today, Dassault is known for making some of the most famous and most expensive business jets currently on the market. Perhaps its most famous jet was the Dassault Falcon 50. Dassault has been in the business jet industry since almost the beginning, having created one of the first private jets, in the form of the […]
For much of its history, Lockheed, and its successor, Lockheed Martin, is/was known primarily for their military aircraft. However, The Lockheed JetStar was Lockheed’s attempt to break into the corporate jet market. As one of the first business jets, the Lockheed JetStar was originally quite successful, selling 202 copies of the aircraft over the course […]
Since the first business jets, some manufacturers have tried to make the largest private jets, where others tried to make the smallest private jets. This got me thinking, which are the smallest? For the purposes of this article, I am only focusing on production private jets. These private jets are either currently in production, or […]
Since the introduction of the first private jets, some have been better than others. This begs the question, which are the best private jets on the market today? There are two main ways we can measure how good these private jets are: the amount built or the amount of hours flown by air charter companies […]
When we were young, we probably dreamed of traveling the world in a private jet. For most of us, it’s unachievable. However, what are the cheapest private jets? Today we will find out! I’m not here to say whether you should or shouldn’t own a private jet. That is a different conversation entirely. The price […]
There are several contenders for the title of first business jet. Several companies claim to have made the first aircraft solely for corporate use. But which is truly the first? Here’s who! The first business jet contenders began to be produced during the 1960’s. Whilst many people were enjoying the relative comfortableness of the “Golden […]
Kansas is a small state in the US, most famous for being the home of Superman in many comics. Other than that, its largest city is known as the ‘Air Capital of the World’, but few know the origins behind this nickname, or even why it is called this!… The nickname ‘Air Capital of the […]
Last week, Gulfstream unveiled their newest business jet- the G700 at the NBAA in Las Vegas. But the manufacturer has been slowly turning into a titan of the business aviation market. But how has it got like this? First we need to provide a little bit of insight into how the manufacturer got started, and […]