Aviation News

One of the key events of NBAA’s EBACE Connect, on Wednesday, May 19, brought together leaders from across business aviation to offer a virtual update in lieu of the one they’d normally deliver in person at the annual European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE), hosted by the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA). A “lightning […]

Aviator, artist, and entrepreneur Erik Lindbergh has taken his family legacy and translated it into a vision for the carbon-free, multimodal future of aviation. Lindbergh—”a name synomous with aviation and sustainability”—spoke with NBAA president and CEO, Ed Bolen, at the Museum of Flight in Seattle in a prerecorded interview opening EBACE Connect on Tuesday, May […]

The Centers for Disease Control will allow certain COVID home-testing kits for general aviation international arrivals, following a request from a consortium of GA user groups. The National Air Transportation Association (NATA), Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), and National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) submitted the request for use of some home testing kits and […]

Boom Technologies recently asked readers if they could name the first woman to pilot an airplane faster than the speed of sound, or the first woman to win a national air race. “As part of Women’s History Month, Boom teamed up with the National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) to spotlight six barrier-breaking women and […]

In April, the Los Angeles Unified School District reopened for in-person classes for the first time in more than a year. With 660,000 students and 63,000 staff at more than 1,300 schools, LAUSD comprises the second largest school district in the country. One of LAUSD’s requirements for reopening was access to rapid and extensive COVID-19 […]

Three people walked away unscathed on May 12 after a Cirrus SR22 and a Swearingen Metroliner collided in midair about three miles north of the threshold of Runway 17L at Denver Centennial Airport (KAPA) located a few miles southeast of the city of Denver, Colorado. The AvHerald reported the Metroliner—Key Lime Air 970—was inbound to […]

Though any record of completed transatlantic flights is unofficial, Magrit Waltz surely ranks among those pilots who have made the most outside of wartime. Launching from Tarbes, France, on May 11, Waltz set out on flight number 900, in a new Daher TBM 940, N64MA, from the manufacturing facility there. The aircraft was headed for […]

Robinson Helicopter Company has made delivery number 13,000: an R44 Raven headed for Texas operator SKY Helicopters in Dallas. The aircraft, serial number 14438, was delivered on April 23, and it comes fully equipped, with a brand-new paint scheme. The R44 features the following options: a Lithium-ion battery, heated seats, and a 4K cockpit video […]

Last week the nation’s newest passenger airline, Avelo Airlines, inaugurated service to nearly a dozen unserved western cities from Hollywood Burbank Airport (KBUR). An Avelo news release said the first flight headed to the Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport (KSTS), in Santa Rosa, California, and some 200 miles northwest. Sporting “everyday low fares starting at […]

With no AirVenture Oshkosh convention in 2020 due to the pandemic, officials at the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) have had well over a year to put some serious thought into ways their 2021 AirVenture Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) can better serve the thousands of pilots who fly into the show each summer. The 32-page notam […]