by Isabel Goyer

Redbird Flight Simulations of Austin, Texas, has signed a lease at nearby San Marcos Municipal Airport (KHYI) for an innovative, multi-pronged aviation business that aims to do training differently. The facility will house a traditional FBO with fuel sales and a foodie-quality eatery, as well as a flight school that will incorporate Redbird’s popular flight […]

In a move that has sent shockwaves through the industry, Textron has parted ways with the highly respected chairman and CEO of its subsidiary Cessna Aircraft, Jack Pelton. The news was announced on Cessna’s Twitter feed and in a Textron news release on Monday afternoon. Pelton had earlier in the day sent a farewell internal […]

Rockwell Collins’ Pro Line Fusion next-gen avionics system has earned FAA TSO approval, the first and biggest step toward putting it in the cockpits of new bizjets. The system represents a huge leap for Collins, which has in Fusion created a scalable, fully digital upgradable suite that is certain to be the basis for numerous […]

An award-winning NASA simulation tool, Future ATM (Air Traffic Management) Concepts Evaluation Tool, or FACET, for short, is being used to create simulations of air traffic, allowing researchers to create elaborate computerized models of airplane traffic around the United States. With as many as 5,000 airplanes in the air at any one time, the effect, […]

Innovation during down times continues to be a differentiator, and GE Aviation has made clear where it stands on this point. This week the Fortune 100 company broke ground on $51 million R&D facility on the campus of the University of Dayton in Ohio. GE calls the center the Electrical Power Integrated Systems Research and […]

Aircraft flight data resource ARG/US has released flight activity results for March and the news couldn’t be much better. Activity in nearly every sector is up, some by as much as almost 20 percent over the same period last year. Overall, business aircraft flight activity for the month was up 17.2 percent compared with the […]

Reality TV continues to present the wild side of flying. This week a hit Canadian aviation series, Ice___ _Pilots, makes its U.S. premiere on the National Geographic Channel. The 13-part first season, which airs on Fridays at 10 p.m. ET/PT (check local listings), follows the adventures of the pilots of Buffalo Airlines, based in Yellowknife […]

At the Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar presented by the NBAA and Flight Safety Foundation, Rockwell Collins introduced a new head-up guidance system, the HGS-3500, which is intended for light to midsize business airplanes equipped with the company’s Pro Line Fusion flight deck. It’s the first time that a head-up guidance system will be available to […]

At AERO Friedrichshafen last week, German company Flight Design, maker of the popular light sport CS two-seater, unveiled its plans for its new four-seat model, the C4. The airplane will be certified by European aviation authorities (EASA) with reciprocal FAA certification to follow. First deliveries of the carbon fiber airplane are projected for 2013. On […]

(April 2011) SINCE ITS INTRODUCTION in 1998, Garmin’s remarkable GNS 430 navigator and its larger GNS 530 companion have become the de facto standard in aftermarket aircraft avionics. And no wonder: In the various iterations, the multifunction panel-mount units serve as a moving map, a navigation receiver, a communications transceiver, a GPS (and, later, WAAS) […]