Aviation News

Musicians Post Malone and Andrew Watt are safe after their Gulfstream IV private jet was on Tuesday forced to make an emergency landing at New York’s Stewart International Airport (SWF). The two celebrities had departed Teterboro Airport approximately mid-morning in New Jersey headed for the United Kingdom, when both of the Gulfstream’s nose wheel tires […]

Jennifer Homendy was sworn in Monday as the newest member of the National Transportation Safety Board, finally returning the team to its standard five-member complement. The board operated with four members between April 2014 and December 2017, a number that dropped to three members since January 2018 until the arrival of its new Vice Chairman […]

Details have emerged of a lawsuit filed in Montana on June 19 by Garmin International Inc. and Garmin USA Inc. against uAvionix in which the Olathe, Kansas avionics giant claims the upstart Bigfork, Montana-based micro-miniaturization experts used a Garmin patent without permission when they created some uAvionix retail product offerings. Specifically, Garmin alleges the uAvionix […]

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association chose National Aviation Day to announce its 2019 Aviation Design Challenge. GAMA’s been hosting this competition every year since 2013 to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in American high schools using an aviation curriculum, and a virtual “fly-off.” GAMA’s President and CEO Pete Bunce said, “This will […]

The Perlan glider team is continuing its mission to reach greater heights. The team is currently in South America attempting to catch the mountain waves of the Patagonia mountain range in the southwestern corner of Argentina. A Grob Egrett turboprop towed Perlan 2 on its 48th flight to just over 44,000 feet before releasing it […]

The NTSB is just beginning it investigation into a June 27 near-fatal collision between a vehicle and an Envoy Airlines Embraer 145 regional jet at the Springfield-Branson National Airport in Springfield Missouri. The incident, caught on video by local airport cameras, shows an airport operations vehicle crossing Runway 14 about two seconds before the regional […]

Over the past few years, we’ve come to respect the logistical power of drones to, for example, conduct surveillance in places and weather conditions airplanes and pilots cannot. Drones can remain on station longer than a human could tolerate, so they should have a bright future completing jobs we’ve yet to create. But like any […]

Boeing has successfully completed the first tests of new on-board autonomous command and control technology for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), which allows them to operate without input from human pilots, the company announced. Testing took place at an airfield in Queensland, Australia and saw five UAV’s equipped with the new systems, complete airborne programmed missions […]

The Blue Angels fleet will be upgraded to the F/A 18 “Super Hornet” within the next two years, according to a Department of Defense contract. The Boeing Company’s St. Louis facility has been awarded $17 million for retrofit kits to turn nine F/A-18E and two F/A-18F fighter jets into the newest Blue Angel demonstrator aircraft. […]

The National Park Service has declared that it is too dangerous to recover the wreck of a sightseeing plane that crashed in Alaska earlier this month, according to a news release from the organization. On August 4, a deHavilland Beaver (DHC-2), operated by the “flightseeing” company, K2 Aviation, crashed about 14 miles southwest of the […]