Aviation News

On Tuesday, Eviation Aircraft, a global manufacturer of all-electric aircraft, announced a partnership with Clay Lacy Aviation that will allow people to charge Alice, its all-electric aircraft, at all Clay Lacy Aviation FBOs as part of its network of services. The partnership is the first FBO agreement for Eviation. It’s in preparation for Alice’s expected […]

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak could be the next entrepreneur to enter the space business. In a cryptic tweet Sunday, he said: “A Private space company is starting up, unlike the others,” with a link to a 59-second YouTube video. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 40%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container […]

Virgin Galactic has delayed the first commercial research mission of its “Unity” spacecraft as a result of concerns about a “potential manufacturing defect” in part of the flight control system, the company said. The mission, dubbed Unity 23, had been scheduled to lift off in late September or early October, from New Mexico’s Spaceport America […]

Captain Beverley Bass will never forget that moment, 20 years ago. She was piloting American Airlines Flight 49 from Paris to Dallas over the North Atlantic when the news came across an air-to-air frequency: Airplanes had hit each of twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City in a terrorist attack. Soon […]

If you didn’t fly into KDCA—now Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport—before September 11, 2001, you’re still out of luck as a general aviation pilot. You’ll need to be crew on an airline flight, or obtain a special clearance, in order to land at the nation’s iconic airport on the banks of the Potomac River. That’s […]

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on FreightWaves.com. Air Wisconsin, which flies under an agreement as United Express as a regional partner of United Airlines, is exploring opportunities as an all-cargo carrier with a single regional jet converted to cargo that it expects to deploy in early December, President and CEO Robert Binns said. This […]

“There were nails everywhere.” That’s just one glimpse into why the aerial support delivered by charitable aviation groups such as AeroBridge remained critical throughout the week after Hurricane Ida swept through the Gulf Coast. In total, AeroBridge flew more than 90,000 pounds of materials and supplies over the course of 90 missions—everything from food and […]

The aviation industry is showing more signs that it’s serious about fighting climate change by replacing conventional fuel with cleaner-burning, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). On Tuesday, Delta Air Lines announced an agreement with Chevron for the energy company to manufacture an SAF test batch and sell it to the Atlanta-based carrier. Delta’s goal is to […]

Firefly Aerospace said this week that an engine failure precipitated the detonation that caused the company’s Alpha rocket to explode late last week during its inaugural launch. “About 15 seconds into the flight, engine 2 [there are four Reaver engines on the first stage] shut down,” the company said in a statement on Twitter. “It […]

The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) will require attendees at this year’s Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19. “For decades, the aviation industry has brought people together and transported them forward safely and responsibly,” NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen said in a statement. “We are leveraging that […]