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The expedition to take 15 Douglas DC-3 and C-47 variants across the Atlantic Ocean to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Normandy Invasion was a monumental undertaking. As the D-Day Squadron looks back a year ago on those efforts, there’s a strong understanding of how fortunate they were to be able to fly there at […]

While it’s certainly not time to claim victory of any sort for airline travel over the COVID-19 virus, data released this week does at least offer a bit of encouraging news to people who depend on air carriers. Transportation Safety Administration data is a good place to begin since that agency keeps a close eye […]

On March 8, 2020, I stepped out of G-SWAY and onto the soggy British mud at Damyn’s Hall Aerodrome an hour east of London. G-SWAY is a Super Cub that belongs to one of Britain’s most famous and historic flying clubs—the Tiger Club. I was the newest member of the Tiger Club, having completed my […]

When the Great Recession hit the United States just more than a decade ago, the media was ripe with stories of companies dumping their airplanes faster than McDonalds flips burgers. That flurry of sales—roughly one in five airplanes—followed the PR nightmare created after a number of automakers flew their business jets to Washington to ask […]

As our personal and professional lives move through the drastic changes the world is experiencing, aviation associations like the National Business Aviation Association are moving fast to re-tool content delivery systems to maintain their usual high level of educational benefits. NBAA’s new GO Virtual Interactive Platform is an example of the shifting mindset association executives […]

Not a moment has gone to waste since the folks behind the Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo made the painful decision to cancel the event in Lakeland, Florida, for 2020. Instead, they’ve thrown their collective (and substantial) energies behind creating Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo Home Edition—a robust experience launched via a dedicated website in […]

This week marks an historic milestone in world history, with the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe: VE-Day. On May 8, 1945, Axis forces in Europe, led by Germany, signed articles of surrender—not just an armistice. Last year, plans began for a series of events that would […]

The Savannah Morning News, as well as that city’s WTOC-TV on May 4 reported, “Nearly 700 employees at Savannah, Georgia-based Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. have been laid off, according to information filed with the Georgia Department of Labor. As required by the Federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), Gulfstream notified the GDOL on Friday, […]

Daher gave an update on the HomeSafe autoland capability for the TBM 940 in a media briefing on Wednesday, May 6. Senior vice president of Daher’s Aircraft Division, Nicolas Chabbert, announced that Garmin’s emergency Autoland capability—standard on all 2020 940 models—would be available once final certification testing was complete. Phil Straub, executive vice president for […]

Note: The FAA has temporarily unpublished the SFAR to make updates. The new ruling will be published on May 4. The FAA has published on April 29, 2020, a SFAR (special federal aviation regulation) regarding the extension of certain pilot and technician recency of experience, testing, and medical certification requirements in response to the international […]