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Nothing is bigger than the medium jet when it comes to same-class hangar-mates. What a crowded class reunion it would be if you collected examples of all the medium jets going back to the beginning (and arguably the Lockheed JetStar of the late 1950s).

The jet broker looked straight ahead at the collection of business jets gathered on static display a few months back and smiled: “Look at all of them – a variety of choices beyond all belief,” a sentenced uttered as a sigh of admiration. “If this was a restaurant you couldn’t find a treat missing from the menu.

Turn on any one of the luxury flying pseudo-documentary programs floating around the media sphere these days, and you may get the impression that bizliners deserve the most. The extremes – those atypical aspects of aviation so easily spotlighted – too often prove irresistible to the folks behind the camera.

Recovery is coming: To the economy, to business in general, to business aviation specifically. So says a variety of forecasts, outlooks and status reports – many of them focused on a specific aspect of the economy or business aviation.

Although he covets the smaller, off-the-beaten-path destinations afforded by the smaller jet he flies a part of the time - a purpose-built business jet in the large/ultra-long-range segment that overlaps partly with the bizliner segment - a retired air-carrier friend of mine also loves the long-distance capabilities of the bizliner he flies the other part of the time. He loves the capabilities of bypassing fuel stops and routing around unfriendly skies with almost total impunity to the leg length.

The pressurized twin-engine cabin-class Mitsubishi MU-2 is a business turboprop that was produced between 1966 and 1986 during the formative years of business aviation - a period we now see as the golden age of the turboprop. Mitsubishi was one of six manufacturers that did battle for the turboprop market during a time in business aviation history when turboprops outsold jets by as much as three to one, and business operators were first being introduced to the reliability and efficiency of turbine

Every choice - each decision - all points of view; they generally support at least two perspectives, a pair of alternative views. If no alternative exists, you don’t really enjoy the luxury of choice, do you? So it’s no wonder that variety never comes up as a complaint in aviation: when it comes to airplanes - sizes and types, missions and powerplants - aviation’s got variety to spare.Aviation also ...

The light jet segment soldiers onwards and upwards. You have undoubtedly noticed the trend in jet sales numbers lately if you pay any attention to the typical business aviation professional. We’re in tough times – but not impossible times. We’re showing signs of nearing the bottom of the market, even though the keenly anticipated upturn presently remains elusive. Nonetheless, the appeal of business aviation’s light jet segment remains as well-grounded and value-driven as ever. ...

We won’t repeat the analogy we used to introduce the first half of our review of the medium jets available in the market today (see June issue of World Aircraft Sales Magazine, p90). But we will re-assert the idea that the market offers so many options in this segment because the middle segment seems to be where business jets provide the best blend of costs and capability.The traits typical of the medium-cabin jets include ...

Many a cost-conscious business operator can tell you their own Goldilocks tale: The one that was too small for the job, another one too big for the budget – with also the one just right from somewhere in the middle. Jets down the scale in the light segment may lack the reach and speed required beyond the space and load constraints generally associated with light jets. Conversely, as you go up in size the higher bucks primarily ...