Aviation News

Pilots operating aircraft into known icing conditions must always guard against an encounter with super-cooled large water droplets (SLD), blotches of water that exist in a liquid state until they strike something solid, such as an airframe, and turn to ice. SLDs were virtually unknown until they were blamed for the 1994 crash of an […]

Garmin just announced G1000 NXi, a faster, modernized successor avionics suite to the G1000 integrated flight deck that made its debut in 2004. The avionics maker’s receipt of an FAA supplemental type certificate (STC) clears the way to begin installing NXi systems in the King Air 200 next month, with approval for the King Air […]

Recovery teams are continuing the hunt for debris from a Cessna Citation CJ4 that went missing last Thursday night over Lake Erie, shortly after takeoff from Cleveland’s Burke Lakefront Airport (BKL). Only a single piece of luggage that washed ashore on Sunday afternoon has been positively linked to the lost aircraft. The Coast Guard, using […]

Cirrus today officially introduced the new generation of SR-series piston singles — known as G6 — that add a long list of capabilities and features to the 2017 model year airplanes, including the new Perspective+ avionics system that is based on Garmin’s just-launched G1000 NXi platform. Flying recently had the chance to experience the 2017 […]

At long last, Tamarack Aerospace has achieved the coveted supplemental type certificate for the Cessna Citation CJ series of bizjets for its Atlas active winglet system. The Atlas system features a wingtip extension that includes load alleviation, which eliminates the additional stress on the wing structure created by the extended wingspan. The performance enhancement realized […]

New Year’s travelers were hit with long lines and delays at bustling airports Monday, when a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) computer experienced a technology disruption for about four hours. The delay lasted from 5 to 9 p.m. ET, affecting crowded airports across the country, including those in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston […]

CubCrafters announced this week that it can now incorporate two of Garmin’s ADS-B transponders into its Cub-style taildragger Carbon Cubs. Carbon Cub owners, of both the production LSA and experimental kit versions, who select the Executive Glass Touch option featuring the Garmin G3X Touch screen, can choose either the Garmin GTX 335R or GTX 345R […]

The criteria we use to select our annual Editors’ Choice award winners are fairly simple: We look for the best products, technologies, ideas and innovations that emerged in the preceding year. Once we’ve separated the merely good from the great, we cull our list even further, debating why some contenders should make the final cut […]

The Bell Helicopter 505 Jet Ranger X, a five-seat multi-mission helicopter, has achieved certification by Transport Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA). The light helicopter progressed quickly through certification after its unveiling at Heli Expo in 2014. “The Bell 505 is truly a game changer in the short light single market, and we are proud of the […]

It was a year filled with big news stories that not only helped to reshape the general aviation landscape but will almost certainly continue to do so for many years to come. The past 12 months have seen aircraft milestones, major changes to FAA regulations and a presidential election unlike any we have witnessed in […]