Aviation News

It’s the news that launched a million “The Patriots have always owned Jets” jokes. The defending Super Bowl champions revealed on Instagram this week that the franchise purchased its own “airkrafts,” obviously a very clever nod to owner Robert Kraft. The details of the purchase have not been revealed, but ESPN determined that the Pats […]

After only a little more than a decade in the business, turbine aircraft sales firm jetAVIVA continues to expand its breadth in the used aircraft market. Just about a year after the company acquired Kansas Aircraft Corporation, which focused on piston and turboprop sales, jetAVIVA has taken over Jet Quest – a Georgetown, Texas-based company […]

Williams International has received type and production certification from the FAA and EASA for its FJ44-4A-QPM engine. Production deliveries have already begun. The FJ44-4A-QPM engines will power the new Pilatus PC-24 Super Versatile Jet that will begin deliveries later this year. As part of an integrated propulsion module, Williams is supplying an anti-ice and noise […]

The battle over exactly who controls airspace and access to a public airport, in this case the airport in East Hampton, New York, is finally over. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District Court of New York has issued a permanent injunction striking down locally created noise and access restrictions at HTO implemented by […]

The U.S. Senate has confirmed Robert Sumwalt’s nomination to a two-year term as chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Sumwalt, who succeeds Christopher Hart, has served on the board since 2006. A pilot for Piedmont Airlines and US Airways for two decades, aviation groups praised his confirmation, which was widely expected. “Robert is […]

With the solar eclipse less than two weeks away, airports throughout the line of totality are bracing for heavy traffic. At Salem Municipal Airport in Oregon, one of the first North American airports in the line of totality, the staff expects the epic event to be their busiest day ever. “We’re planning for hundreds of […]

The FAA is bringing a new cockpit technology called Data Comm to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to replace traditional voice communications with digital information exchanges. “Voice communication is labor intensive, time consuming and can lead to miscommunications known as ‘talk back, read back’ errors,” the FAA said in a press release. “Data Comm, by contrast, enables […]

Being a tail dragger aficionado since my Citabria ownership days probably gave me a leg up on taking to Belite Aircraft‘s Chipper when I first saw it at Sun N Fun in April. Belite’s president, James Wiebe, made it clear from the start of our conversation in Lakeland that the Chipper was a work in […]

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This month, a research program called SonicBAT II (short for Sonic Booms in Atmospheric Turbulence), is set to begin to help understand sonic booms and how to reduce the noise associated with supersonic flight. The program is a partnership between NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, Langley Research Center […]