Rob Mark

Specially designed for airline pilot development, ATP Flight School’s advanced 13,875-square-foot flight training center, currently under construction at the Arlington, Texas Municipal Airport (KGKY) represents, according to a company news release, a substantial investment in Dallas-Fort Worth-area students and to meeting future demand for qualified airline pilots. Once completed, the new facility will increase ATP’s […]

Diamond has restarted production of its DA20-C1 primary training aircraft. This time around, new DA20s are equipped with a G500TXi avionics suite. The aircraft is still powered by a 125HP Continental IO-240 engine. In a Diamond news release, the company said, “The DA20 was originally introduced in 1992 and exists in two variants, is certified […]

Dassault Aviation’s yet-to-fly ultra-widebody Falcon 6X was recently awarded the International Yacht & Aviation Award for interior design according to a Dassault news release. Dassault Aviation chairman and CEO Eric Trappier says, “This prestigious award reflects the innovative manner in which our in-house design studio conceived the Falcon 6X cabin, which entailed going well beyond […]

Understanding what’s happening at Icon Aircraft today demands a quick look at continuous quality improvement, a culture-driven process widely used in automobile manufacturing to help companies manage an unwieldy production process often caused by rising costs, poor planning or a lack of innovation. But continuous improvement isn’t simply about cost cutting. It’s also about refining […]

Kahului, Hawaii based Mokulele Airlines has joined with California-based Ampaire to begin testing the second prototype Cessna 337 “Electric EEL” hybrid-electric aircraft conversion. Ampaire successfully flew the second demonstrator on September 10. The new prototype builds on previous aircraft that the company has test flown in other markets. Ampaire calls the new flight test aircraft […]

In March 2019, Part 121 air carriers were required to begin offering upset prevention and recovery training (UPRT) to pilots who train under an advanced qualifications program (AQP) outlined in Public Law 111-216 section 208. That law was created in part, following the 2009 loss of control crash of a Colgan Airlines Dash 8 Q400 […]

While the data just released from the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) showed trends that weren’t unexpected, the degree of downturn for the industry points to a more significant slump than most people prepared for. The total number of aircraft shipped to date in 2020 declined 21.5 percent from the same period last year. Billings […]

On September 25, some 70 aircraft—with a contingent from the Commemorative Air Force—will help commemorate the end of World War II by blanketing the skies with aircraft flying in two-minute intervals over Washington, DC. Many supporting organizations of next week’s event are sending aircraft that will create historically sequenced formations representing the war’s major battles—from […]

Just because Otto Aviation’s elongated egg-shaped Celera 500L looks nothing like any airplane you’ve ever seen before is no reason to scoff. Otto Aviation, the brain child of an actual rocket scientist, William Otto, says the 500L could well become the most fuel-efficient commercially viable passenger airplane in the world. A recent company news release […]

The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) has released details of what the latest proposal for COVID-19 relief is expected to look like based on reports released Tuesday by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The skinny bill—as it’s being called—includes no fresh money for the Payroll Support Program for the airlines, that expire at the end […]