Aviation News

Avionica Inc. announced that Constant Aviation would be its first dealer and installation center for all of its products, including flight data management services, flight operational quality assurance data, and satcom systems for business aircraft. Avionica has installed its miniQAR equipment to capture data on more than 8,000 aircraft, including Boeing, Gulfstream, Dassault, Cessna and […]

The Air Force Materiel Command has publicly admitted to a mishap in which an Air Force test pilot crew got the ride of their life in April of this year. An AC-130J Ghostrider, an airplane weighing as much as 164,000 pounds, went inverted during a test flight and was severely damaged, a mistake that is […]

At the NBAA annual convention in Las Vegas, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University confirmed the dates of its 2016 Wings and Waves Air Show, which will be held in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Oct. 8-9. At the 2012 show, Wings and Waves drew more than 100,000 visitors, as well as special guests, industry leaders, graduates and current […]

ONE Aviation announced Wednesday that its Eclipse 550 twin-engine jet was awarded type certification by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). “We are thrilled to have EASA certification in place,” says David Hayman, CEO of Aeris Aviation. “This now opens the EU OPS market [European equivalent of Part 135] for the Eclipse, allowing us to […]

The French producer of the TBM product line, Daher, has launched a new concept to support a growing number of charter operators transporting customers in TBM airplanes. Named the TBM Charter Pack, the program extends Daher’s TBM Care Program (TCP) to cover the increase in flight time that comes with commercial operations. While there are […]

ForeFlight is rethinking the preflight briefing with new graphical tools for its flight planning app that replace the sometimes hard to interpret wall of text in past briefings with a more interactive and intuitive experience. ForeFlight Briefing is a standard briefing with content derived from approved government sources. It includes all the elements of a […]

BendixKing is bringing its AeroVue retrofit cockpit to select Cessna Citation and King Air models through a partnership with Sabreliner Aviation. The agreement calls for Sabreliner to provide certification, installations and service for AeroVue cockpits in the Cessna Citation V, Encore and Ultra, as well as the King Air C90. AeroVue was previously announced for […]

Torrance, California-based Robinson Helicopters has announced a new two-seat version of the R44 named the Cadet. The design is targeted for the training market, though Robinson says the Cadet can be employed in a variety of missions. The basic design parameters for the Cadet, such as the airframe, rotor system and Lycoming O-540-F1B5 power plant, […]

Dassault Aviation’s new flagship, the Falcon 8X, made its debut this week at the NBAA’s Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition in Las Vegas. The new ultra-long range Falcon 8X will offer the greatest range and cabin length in any Falcon aircraft, as well as the broadest selection of cabin configurations. Since taking their first flight […]

Lightspeed Aviation showed off the newest addition to its aviation headset family at NBAA on Tuesday. Announced last week via live webcast, Tango is the first premium wireless aviation headset to hit the market. Using a patent-pending combination of analog and digital technologies called Lightspeed Link, each Tango headset creates its own secure wireless signal […]