Aviation News

Investigations are taking place into an incident from last week that resulted in headlines at local news outlets in Florida. A local NBC news station reported that an Icon A5 had to make an emergency landing, which resulted in an emergency rescue of the sole person on board. Several stations reported that the airplane in […]

Although it will still be many months before the NTSB is ready to determine a probable cause in the May 15, 2017 loss of control accident of a Learjet 35A during a circling approach to Teterboro Airport (TEB), the Board’s investigation docket opened last week revealed a number of concerns about the two pilots aboard […]

Joby’s website says, “More than a billion people on planet Earth spend more than an hour a day in traffic. Transportation emissions are one of the largest sources of pollution.” Thanks to the $100 million Joby just raised from a variety of investors, including the venture capital arms of JetBlue, Toyota and Intel, the startup […]

Orolia is growing the market for its Kannad ELT-DT unit, which the company launched last summer to improve search and rescue capabilities for commercial and business aircraft. The Kannad ELT-DT complies with ICAO’s Global Aeronautical Distress and Safety System (GADSS) recommendations. Air France Industries and KLM Engineering and Maintenance have signed up to develop supplemental […]

Mention the “internet of things” to most people today and they immediately think of a refrigerator sending the grocery list to a smart phone or Amazon’s Alexa digging through Cyberspace to send that special someone an original 1965 vinyl of the Turtles album “It Ain’t Me Babe.” At this year’s Singapore Airshow, however, Rolls-Royce engines […]

Honda Aircraft has notched its biggest order yet, signing a deal with Wijet, a European air-taxi provider, for 16 HondaJets to upgrade its aging business jet fleet. Honda Aircraft made the announcement at the Singapore Airshow being held at Changi Exhibition Centre, where the HondaJet is making its first-ever appearance. Wijet is a French air-taxi […]

Yesterday was a big day for Swiss airplane maker Pilatus Aircraft as the first business jet in the company’s nearly 80-year history was delivered. The customer, Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based PlaneSense, received the airplane and will put it into service in its fractional share ownership program. PlaneSense is very familiar with Pilatus’ products as the company […]

Piper Aircraft received an order for 152 training aircraft from Fanmei Aviation Technologies, the manufacturer’s dealer in China, making the deal the largest single order for training airplanes in the company’s history. Fanmei Aviation Technologies is a subsidiary of Sichuan Fanmei Education Group Co., a leading provider of aviation education in China. The seven-year purchase […]

The Cessna Citation CJ3 and CJ3+ can now get a boost in performance as Tamarack Aerospace’s ATLAS Active Winglets have achieved the FAA and EASA supplemental type certificate for the C525B series. Tamarack already has STC approval for the C525-series CJs. The performance improvement with the active winglets is impressive. “With ATLAS you can climb […]

Gulfstream Aerospace’s all-new family of business jets, the Gulfstream G500 and G600, are making solid progress toward their anticipated FAA certification later this year. The G500 just entered the final stage of its flight test and certification program, while the G600 recently completed company field performance testing. To date, the five G500 aircraft have accumulated […]