Aviation News

The NTSB this week opened the accident docket for the Reno crash that rocked the nation last September, providing the public further insight into what caused the highly modified P-51 known as Galloping Ghost to crash into a crowd of spectators at the show, killing 11 and injuring more than 60. Among the more than […]

L-3 Avionics Systems has received Technical Standards Order (TSO) approval from the FAA for its newest electronic standby instrument system (ESIS), the GH-3900. The unit meets Level A hardware and software standards and was designed for installation in transport category and general aviation aircraft (though not for airplanes with a gross weight below 6,000 pounds). […]

Cessna’s new Citation Latitude has extended its legs with a new range that maxes out at 2,500 nautical miles, bringing a 25 percent increase to its initial expected range of 2,000 nm. The announcement was made last week at the Latin American Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition, and comes after a previous extension of the […]

An expedition team launched last month to search for the wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s aircraft claims it has shot high-definition video that shows man-made debris in the area where organizers theorize Earhart crash-landed her Lockheed Electra 75 years ago. The team behind the search effort is The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (Tighar), a […]

Nextant Aerospace has landed a bulk order from Asia Pacific Jets of Singapore for 10 of its Nextant 400XT bizjets, a remanufactured version of the Beechjet 400. Nextant said it will deliver the airplanes over a period of three years, with some outfitted as air ambulances and others as VIP transports. Asia Pacific Jets also […]

Lisa Airplanes, the French developer of the Akoya amphibious light sport aircraft, is putting a positive spin on the news that it has entered into court-supervised receivership after desperately needed private funding failed to materialize last month. In a statement, the company said it has been placed into receivership “to protect its future.” Lisa Airplanes […]

The Air Force’s scramjet-powered X-51A WaveRider lost control and was destroyed seconds into a test flight on Tuesday, dashing hopes that the craft would reach its goal of speeding to Mach 6. This third test of the Boeing X-51A was launched Tuesday off the California coast from a B-52. Plans called for the scramjet-powered craft […]

An NPR story this week brought some disturbing information to light about the potential for hacking the new, high-tech NextGen air traffic management system the FAA is developing. A Canadian hacker, Brad “RenderMan” Haines, claims he has found a way to transmit ADS-B signals from a simple home-based simulator that can be introduced as “ghost […]

A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday heard a claim by Pilatus alleging that Hawker Beechcraft owes the Swiss company more than $1 million in royalties for the use of a Pilatus design for the airframe of Hawker Beech’s T-6/AT-6 military trainers. Based on the Pilatus PC-9, the trainer has been used as the platform for […]

The U.S. Air Force has started the process of replacing the two VC-25A Boeing 747-200Bs that serve as Air Force One when the president is on board, with a goal of procuring new aircraft within the next decade. The Pentagon officially authorized the acquisition program late last week, according to a report by Bloomberg News. […]