Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. held a signing ceremony on April 15 with Minsheng Financial Leasing Co. Ltd. at the Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition. The ceremony recognized Minsheng’s order for 60 Gulfstream aircraft, which was signed in the fourth quarter of 2013.

The country of registry controls the maintenance of the aircraft. This seems like pretty basic stuff. Unfortunately, the international aspects of the aviation maintenance industry can create unnecessary costs without a corresponding safety improvement.

JSfirm.com, an online aviation-only job board, has released its 5th Annual Hiring Trends Survey. Jeff Richards, JSfirm.com Manager says, “This annual survey has proven to be accurate in past years at forecasting the hiring trends and is highly anticipated by the aviation industry.”

Roger Wassmuth has joined Unical Aviation Inc. to lead and expand its newly formed Military Division.

Jet Support Services, Inc. (JSSI) announces the winners of the first JSSI Choice Awards at the 2014 Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (ABACE).

LYHT Aerospace Solutions Ltd customer, First Air, is adding FLYHTStream’s automatically triggered, real-time data and live black box streaming capability to its current fleet of 21 B737, ATR and B767 aircraft.

FL Technics reports that in order to compete with powerful OEMs many engine and component MROs must concentrate on developing innovative solutions and seek new ways to increase efficiency. Most airframe providers, however, seem to be faced with no such challenges.

Beechcraft Corporation, part of the Textron Aviation segment of Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) announces the sale of a Beechcraft King Air C90GTx to the state-owned Beidahuang General Aviation Company of Harbin, China.

Comlux the Aviation group announces that its Completion & Service center Comlux America, based in Indianapolis IN, has been awarded the maintenance and refurbishment contract for a BBJ based in Asia.