Aviation News

In-flight internet just got more accessible for general aviation aircraft. BendixKing this week announced the FAA has approved installation of its AeroWave 100 in-flight internet product on several popular turboprop and turbine airframes. The approved model list includes Cessna Mustang, M2, CJ2, CJ3, CJ4, Caravan, Embraer Phenom 100 and 300, Pilatus PC-12, Daher TBM 700/850/900, […]

When the NBAA’s single-pilot working group, an offshoot of the association’s well-known safety committee, met in person for the first time 18 months ago, its goal was simple: bring together whatever resources it could muster to help stem the rising accident rate for people operating airplanes for business with themselves as the only pilot. The […]

Owners of pre-NG Pilatus PC-12s hankering to upgrade their airplane’s original P&W PT-6 engine, can now add a Hartzell five-blade composite swept-tip propeller when the work is completed by Broomfield, Colorado-based Finnoff Aviation. The upgraded prop, now standard on new PC-12s, is 5 pounds lighter than the original aluminum four-blade Hartzell standard on nearly 800 […]

For about six years now, CubCrafters has kept a new two-seat taildragger design under wraps. Named the XCub, that secret airplane has now been revealed as the Yakima, Washington-based company achieved the coveted Part 23 certification from the FAA for the airplane on June 2. Since the company self-funded the new design and certification process, […]

In an effort to spur adoption of ADS-B avionics ahead of the 2020 equipment mandate, the FAA yesterday announced a rebate program for owners of U.S.-registered piston airplanes — but as you might guess, there’s a catch. Once the incentive program goes into effect in September, the first 20,000 aircraft owners to equip with ADS-B […]

When the National Transportation Safety Board agreed to take part in a Smithsonian Channel series about aircraft accident investigation, chairman Christopher Hart and other members of the staff never expected their day-to-day work to become a topic of conversation to members of Congress. But Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and the Senate Appropriations Committee recently demanded […]

There seems to be no holding back Embraer’s expansion of its Melbourne, Florida, manufacturing home, as the company opened an expanded Legacy 450/500 business jet production facility on June 2. The site originally opened in 2011 as the final assembly location for the Phenom 100 and 300 family of jets. This week’s ribbon cutting added […]

Don’t expect changes anytime soon to long airport security lines, no matter what remedies Congress may try to implement. The Reason Foundation’s director of transportation Bob Poole says there are a couple of untried tactics the TSA could implement, however, that would make a difference quickly. The first method, Poole says, would include “converting some […]

NASA’s super pressure balloon hit a new milestone on Tuesday, completing its first circumnavigation of the globe after 14 days, 13 hours and 17 minutes of flight. Flying the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) payload, the 18.8 million-cubic-foot balloon departed from Wanaka Airport, New Zealand, and flew at 53.85 knots, at an altitude of 110,170 […]

A Blue Angels pilot was killed Thursday afternoon when his jet crashed in central Tennessee during practice for an upcoming airshow. According to the Navy, the pilot involved in the fatal crash was Capt. Jeff Kuss, who had been with the elite flight demonstration squadron since September 2014. The crash happened soon after the six-pilot […]