Aviation News

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Cirrus Aircraft’s long journey to certification of the industry’s first single-engine personal jet culminated with FAA type approval of the SF50 Vision Jet nearly 10 years after the program’s launch. The FAA ceremoniously presented the type certificate for the SF50 to senior Cirrus executives at the NBAA Convention in Orlando, Florida, yesterday as the company […]

Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence is uninjured after a tense landing in a Boeing 737 at LaGuardia Airport in New York City Thursday night. The chartered plane, arriving from Fort Dodge, Iowa, and carrying the Indiana governor and his press pool, landed on a wet runway and skidded to a halt on the overrun, […]

Now that the restrictions on visits to Cuba have eased, you may want to take your airplane to experience this beautiful Caribbean country. A new company called Cuba Handling can help make sure you stay on the legal side of this new adventure. Cuba Handling is an offshoot of a company called Cultural Contrast, which […]

Decades of squabbling have finally generated positive results for the aviation industry and users of London Heathrow Airport (LHR), Europe’s busiest hub. Britain’s government on Tuesday gave the nod to a still-controversial plan to build a third parallel runway at Heathrow by calling LHR its favored option for the new concrete. Airport officials say Heathrow, […]

The FAA says it’s already processed 81 authorizations for drone flights into Class D and E airspace, as well as 36 waivers to Part 107 since the rule became effective August 29. The bad news, however, at least for operators trying to take advantage of the easier access offered by the new rule, is that […]

Fans of one of the most picturesque — and hair-raising — landings anywhere are lamenting the end of an era. Dutch carrier KLM will no longer fly the Boeing 747 to St. Maarten Airport. Beginning on October 30, the flights will be operated by the smaller, though still pretty cool, Airbus A330 instead. The landings […]

Leaders in business aviation are gearing up for the most important industry event of the year, the NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition, which kicks off Tuesday. Organizers expect about 27,000 industry professionals to attend the three-day conference in Orlando, Florida. As always, presentations and seminars will be given on the state of the industry, […]

(function(d, s, id) { if (d.getElementById(id)) return; var js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = ‘//cdn4.wibbitz.com/static.js’; d.getElementsByTagName(‘body’)[0].appendChild(js); }(document, ‘script’, ‘wibbitz-static-embed’)); A successful third edition of Flying Aviation Expo included some notable firsts that made the show in Palm Springs, California, over the weekend one that attendees will be talking about for a long time […]

Articulating airfoils, or folding wings, are nothing new to aviation. They’ve been used for decades as an efficiency tool to help store multiple airplanes in a small space. But NASA thinks a new airfoil known as the Spanwise Adaptive Wing (SAW) could fold an aircraft’s wings in flight, creating huge efficiencies but without the use […]