Category: Taxonomy

We are pleased to announce the start of the release of our piston twin data, this month we have the following types now available for business aviation subscribers:

• Piper PA-31 Navajo
• Diamond DA42
• Diamond DA62

These types are being released with current fleet information as well as accident write ups going back at least 10 years – we are still working backwards on the full histories for these types so please be aware of this when using the trend function in Fleets Analyzer.

For release next month:

• Cessna 402
• Cessna 404
• Cessna 414

Images of the 3 new types are included below.

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Based on customer feedback, we are making a series of OEM name changes to bring our data up-to-date with our policy of reflecting the current support OEM. These name changes will be implemented in Flight Fleets Analyzer from 12 September.

Based on recent meetings with the OEM, and to reflect the rebrand that was announced earlier this year, we are now updating the name of ‘Bell Helicopter Textron’ to be ‘Bell’ in our data. This change will be reflected in Fleets Analyzer from Monday 30 July.

In line with the recent news that the CSeries has been rebranded as the A220, we have updated our taxonomy.

The type is now called the A220 (CSeries) in Flight Fleets Analyzer. The CSeries name in brackets enables customers to continue using the old name in data searches if desired.

The subsequent subseries have changed accordingly:

• CS100 becomes A220-100 (CS100)
• CS300 becomes A220-300 (CS300)
• CS100/300 becomes A220 (CS100/CS300)

These changes will be reflected in Flight Fleets Analyzer from tomorrow (Thursday 12 July).

We made a change to the Aircraft Usage categories today, removing ‘Business / Corporate / Executive’ and rolling it into ‘Business – Private Company Use’.

‘Business – Private Company Use’ will now be used whenever the aircraft is operated by a private business or corporation but does not conduct direct revenue-generating services such as air taxi, air charter, or airline services.

‘Business – Air Taxi/Air Charter’ will continue to include aircraft operated by air taxi (Part  135) companies.

Any aircraft operated by private individuals will be included under ‘Private Use’.

We have made a minor update to how we display an aircraft’s operator when we do not know the exact name.

From today, all these operators will change from being “Unconfirmed [country] Operator” to “Corporate [country] Operator”.

We have made this change based on customer feedback, and believe it better reflects the status of the aircraft operator.  Often we have confirmed the country where it is based but either do not know or cannot show the company that operates it.

Formerly, these companies appeared as shown below:

From today they will appear as shown below:

Based on customer feedback, we have added A330-800neo and A330-900neo as Master Series within the aircraft taxonomy.

This will take effect from Saturday 28th April.

So that our aircraft naming is more consistent across the product, and to bring it more in line with convention, the brackets have been dropped from the A319, A320, A321, A330 neo families, and Boeing 737. e.g A320 (neo) is now A320neo. 737 (Max) is now 737 Max.

We have made a small update to the taxonomy for the 737 MAX.

The Sub Series of Max 8-200 is now grouped under the master series of Max 8 which will enable users to group all 737 Max 8s together at master series level.

For our heli users, in response to the announcement earlier this week, we’ve changed Marenco to Kopter in the list of manufacturers.

In addition to the company’s name change, its SKYe SH09 helicopter is now listed as the SH09.