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Dozens of U.S. airports will receive nearly $432 million in federal grants to offset the cost of safety and environmental projects, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced. Some of the projects slated for funding at 60 airports include: New general aviation parking areas Zero-emission passenger shuttle buses Runway replacement and taxiway extension and repair The […]

A new FAA draft report assessing potential environmental impact suggests SpaceX may ultimately be allowed to launch larger rockets from its Texas Boca Chica site. SpaceX is working with the FAA to win permission to launch its large Super Heavy booster rocket and Starship upper stage from the site, which is located on the Gulf […]

The FAA has grounded all Virgin Galactic flights as it investigates a July launch that sent billionaire founder Richard Branson into space. The probe stems from an article published this week by The New Yorker, which said the Unity 22 ship, carrying Branson and five Virgin Galactic employees, veered off course during its descent back […]

The inaugural test flight of Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket on Thursday ended abruptly as it exploded over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. In a statement posted to Twitter on Thursday, the company said “an anomaly” occurred about 2 minutes after the unmanned aircraft’s 6:59 p.m. takeoff from the Vandenberg Space Force Base, […]

Four people, including the two pilots, were killed Thursday after the business jet they were on board struck a building in Farmington, Connecticut. The Cessna Citation 560X, which was headed to Dare County Regional Airport in Manteo, North Carolina, crashed around 10 a.m., shortly after takeoff from Robertson Field Airport in Plainville, Connecticut. No one […]

Purdue University’s School of Aviation and Transportation Technology has announced the creation of the Purdue University National Aviation Symposium: Emerging Critical Shortages of Pilots and Maintenance Technicians. This three-day symposium, scheduled for April 6 to 8, 2022, will unite the aviation community— including airlines, manufacturers, industry associations, labor unions, government agencies, and academic institutions—to identify […]

The FAA has awarded more than $766 million in grants aimed at building safer, more sustainable, and more accessible airports across the United States. The funding, the fifth round of FY 2021 Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grants, will pay for projects at 279 airports in 44 states, as well as projects in Guam, Puerto Rico, […]

The FAA has opened the comment period on a nose-gear airworthiness directive (AD) for the Tecnam P2006T piston twin that follows onto a mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) initiated under EASA in March 2019. The proposed AD and MCAI address an unsafe condition driven by a manufacturing defect in the nose landing-gear (NLG) piston tube. […]

Aerospace company Electra Aero has begun working with the FAA Center for Emerging Concepts and Innovation (CECI) and the Atlanta Aircraft Certification Office (ACO) to define the certification path for its electric short-takeoff-and-landing (eSTOL) aircraft. The company has hired industry veteran Randy Griffith as its director of certification. Griffith led the certification of the Eclipse […]

A month after sending billionaire Jeff Bezos into space, Blue Origin is set to launch one of its New Shepard reusable rockets this week. The New Shepard mission, also known as NS-17, will fly a NASA lunar landing technology demonstration, 18 commercial payloads inside the crew capsule—11 of which are NASA-supported—and an art installation. Liftoff […]