Aircraft

Tired of waiting to get passenger service off the ground during the pandemic, startup low-cost carrier Flypop has decided to switch gears and debut as a cargo airline. 

The aircraft deliveries will make the 495th Fighter Squadron the first USAF F-35As stationed in Europe.

The company reported completing 55 test flights over 51 hours of flight time, some powered by sustainable aviation fuel.

In every segment of aviation, there are people who are considered to be experts, the kind of leaders that have the pulse of the entire segment and have acquired their considerable knowledge base from many years of being on top of industry and market developments every day.  For the light sport category of aircraft and […]

UK military officials are selling off Royal Air Force Sentinel R1 airframes, reversing previous plans to scrap the surveillance aircraft for parts.

It’s said that one person’s treasure is another person’s trash. This played out last week at King County International Airport (KBFI) in Seattle, where the county oversaw the demolition of what it describes in a media release as a “derelict 727.” According to the release, “A court action last year declared the aircraft a nuisance […]

Cessna’s Citation Special Olympics Airlift is set to take off this weekend, the latest in a long series of such airlifts started by Cessna back in 1987. This year the big change is that many of the athletes will be flying in airplanes built by Beechcraft, Cessna’s new sister company under the Textron Aviation banner. […]

Two larger-than-life FLYING covers grace the factory walls at the Piper Aircraft manufacturing facility in Vero Beach, Florida. The first, from March 2008, shows off the newly launched Piper Matrix, a nonpressurized version of the original PA-46 series made a little bit easier to manage by its relative lack of complexity, bringing a big-cabin feel […]

Under partnership, Pipistrel to supply motors, batteries and motor controllers for Airflow’s proof-of-concept aircraft.

As far as aircraft go, the Douglas C-124 Cargomaster II was a vital way marker for the U.S. Air Force in the days following the year-long Berlin Airlift when U.S. and British air forces began airlifting food and fuel to a blockaded West Germany in 1948. Two years later, in 1950, the cargo aircraft that […]