Aviation News

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 […]

The 2018 season for the Red Bull Air Race World Championships kicked off this weekend in Abu Dhabi. It was a big race for Team Goulian as Michael Goulian pulled off his second career win. Goulian came close a few times last year, but luck was never on his side. He had not stood at […]

Peter Edenhoffer doesn’t remember which teams were playing in last year’s Super Bowl. A year later, Sunday, February 5, 2017, is still pretty much a blur, because that Super Bowl Sunday was the night Edenhoffer was flying his Cessna Cardinal alone back to his home airport, Cox Field near Paris Texas (PRX) from San Antonio […]

When we first came across a video last week of a drone’s dramatic encounter with an airliner, like a lot of people we assumed it was fake – or at least impossible to verify as real. Now, the FAA confirms to Flying it is taking the video very seriously, and members of the drone community […]

Epic Aircraft in Bend, Oregon, has flown the second and final production conforming prototype E1000, putting the company on short final for FAA certification of the all-composite single-engine turboprop, which is now anticipated to enter the market by this year’s third quarter. Epic Aircraft CEO Doug King said performance of the Pratt & Whitney Canada […]

A major stumbling block in the development of a practical electric flying vehicle is battery technology, which is currently plagued by energy sources that weigh too much and produce too little power. This week, Boeing HorizonX Ventures’ took a step into battery development for the aerospace giant, when it announced its first investment in an […]

The Commemorative Air Force has succeeded once again in returning a historically significant airplane to the skies. And this one is extra special. That’s All Brother happens to be the Douglas C-47A Skytrain that led some 800 paratrooper-carrying C-47s over Normandy, France, during the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944, when about 13,000 aircraft and […]

Bombardier has successfully flown FTV5, the final Global 7000 prototype test aircraft. FTV5, nicknamed by Bombardier “The Masterpiece,” will validate tests completed earlier in the program, ensuring what is hoped to be a smooth entry-into-service for the Global 7000 later this year. To date, Global 7000 flight testing has logged more than 1,300 flight test […]

On January 26, the FAA issued an Emergency Order of Revocation against TapJets Inc., claiming that the company conducted various flights in violation of federal aviation regulations. The agency claimed that the company flew 10 flights during the period between September 28, 2016, and January 22, 2017, with unqualified pilots. Allegedly, one copilot only had […]

The day before the Chicago Area 99’s annual IFR/VFR Expo, Madeleine Monaco was worried about the weather, always a coin toss in the Midwest during January. Monaco was the general manager for the 99’s event. “If the weather’s really good tomorrow, our turn out will probably suffer,” she told me. “Most pilots would rather be […]