Stephen Pope

Daher, the French maker of the TBM family of sleek and speedy single-engine turboprops, said it will purchase Sandpoint, Idaho-based Quest Aircraft, which builds the Kodiak 100 utility turboprop. The acquisition, Daher says, strengthens two of the company’s “strategic pillars” by boosting its market position in the turboprop segment and growing its footprint in North […]

No, it’s not a futuristic rocket ship for the burgeoning space-tourism market. Instead, Mitsubishi Aircraft today announced its SpaceJet family of aircraft because these regional jets will be so spacious inside. SpaceJet is the new commercial name for a product family that includes the SpaceJet M90 (previously known by the developmental designation of MRJ90) and […]

National Transportation Safety Board investigators are on the scene attempting to determine what caused an Augusta 109E helicopter to crash onto the rooftop of a Manhattan skyscraper on Monday afternoon, killing the pilot and causing a fire atop the building that briefly caused panic for those inside and on the streets below. The corporate helicopter, […]

Flying magazine once again this year is sponsoring the Wings & Wheels show at New Jersey’s Caldwell Airport outside New York City, an event that helps raise money for the New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum located at Teterboro Airport. The two-day show, scheduled for this Saturday and Sunday, June 15 and 16, […]

Cirrus Aircraft named Zean Nielsen, a former senior executive with Tesla Motors, James Hardie and Bang & Olufsen, as its new CEO. Nielsen succeeds Cirrus cofounder Dale Klapmeier, who has stepped back to take a more strategic role with manufacturer, which is the number one producer of high-performance piston airplanes for the general aviation market. […]

The latest version of ForeFlight, release 11.4, adds a new Takeoff & Landing Performance feature for calculating critical distance and speed metrics for both takeoff and landing, as well as a new way to share flights with other pilots. The new Takeoff & Landing Performance capability, available to purchasers of a ForeFlight Performance subscription, provides […]

Inflight internet provider Gogo announced plans to bring 5G data service to the North American market starting in 2021. The new 5G air-to-ground (ATG) service is designed to power faster inflight Wi-Fi for business jets and turboprops as well as airline customers in the United States and Canada even on smaller regional jets. Gogo says […]

For a heart-pounding, on-the-edge-of-your seat adrenalin rush, the Red Bull Air Race Championship series was hard to beat. Outside the aviation community, however, the races failed to attract the same level of interest as other Red Bull events. For this reason, Red Bull announced on Wednesday that its Air Race World Championship that began in […]

BlackBird, an online air charter broker that has visions of becoming an “Uber for the skies,” has placed an order with Bye Aerospace for more than 100 electric airplanes that it says will one day make flying more affordable than driving for trips up to about 300 miles. Bye Aerospace announced that BlackBird has agreed […]

EASA, the European Union’s aviation safety agency, has certified Daher’s TBM 940 single-engine turboprop, allowing deliveries to begin in the coming days, the manufacturer announced at the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, Switzerland. The TBM 940’s certification comes two months after the airplane’s launch in March. So far, 25 orders have […]