Aviation News

The B-29 Superfortress Doc will be on display at an open house hosted by Doc’s Friends this weekend, on Saturday May 12 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Air Capital Flight Line at the McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kansas. The facilities were formerly occupied by the Boeing Company and now serve […]

Imagine an electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle for urban travel that’s quieter, safer, more affordable and more environmentally friendly than a traditional helicopter. At this week’s Uber Elevate Summit, Pipistrel, an Uber Elevate partner, revealed an aircraft the company thinks might fit that bill. The Pipistrel eVTOL concept uses dedicated propulsion systems for cruising […]

Uber is holding its Uber Elevate Summit this week at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles, where industry leaders are discussing the future of metropolitan air transportation. Two well-established GA manufacturers, Slovenia’s Pipistrel and Brazil’s Embraer, revealed conceptual eVTOL designs at this year’s Summit. Embraer unveiled its eVTOL concept under the company’s subsidiary EmbraerX. While […]

Just a few short months after Workhorse’s SureFly personal helicopter completed a short flight at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company reports the electric vertical takeoff and land aircraft completed its first untethered flight with a pilot on board. OK, so it only hovered about six feet above the surface of a […]

Seaplane pilots arriving in the United States can now use an app to clear U.S. Customs as part of a test program. Available at two locations in Minnesota, the Reporting Offsite Arrival-Mobile (ROAM) app lets pilots clear customs by video conference at Scott’s Seaplane Base on Crane Lake and at the Shagawa Lake Seaplane base […]

Stans, Switzerland-based Pilatus Aircraft exceeded its targets for 2017, showing strong financial results and achieving FAA and EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency) certification for its highly anticipated PC-24 Super Versatile Jet. The first PC-24 was delivered in December to the Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based fractional ownership company PlaneSense. In addition to bringing its first business jet […]

Tracking devices can provide peace of mind for both pilots and family members, and, like most electronic devices, these portable units have become smaller as technology has progressed. Garmin recently introduced the inReach Mini, a pocket-size satellite communicator that is small enough to fit in a pocket and weighs only 3.5 ounces. The inReach Mini […]

Thousands of people read reports of last July’s near collision on the ground at San Francisco International Airport when an Air Canada flight nearly landed on a taxiway. Until the NTSB last week opened the docket of information related to the incident, almost no one realized just how close all the aircraft involved came to […]

Van Nuys Airport has created another truly impressive, “The Sky’s the Limit: Aviation Career Day.” The airport last Thursday hosted no fewer than 1,500 Los Angeles-area students for a day’s worth of adventures into what makes the industry tick. Participants were also treated to a behind-the-scenes look at the history and daily operations of VNY, […]

After a few years of harassment by local Chino airport tenants, the legal troubles for Planes of Fame have been resolved. The annual show will proceed this weekend, May 5 and 6, and a representative from Planes of Fame said all parties that were a part of the lawsuit are now participating in the Planes […]