Thai Aviation Academy in Thailand has ordered two Tecnam P2002JF and one P2006T aircraft following evaluation flights at Tecnam’s Capua, Italy, production and flight-test facility.
Changi Airport Group plans to open a 10,000-sq.-m business aviation terminal at Singapore’s Seletar Airport to handle 700,000 passenger movements a year.
This AD requires a one-time visual inspection of the engine fan hub for damage, and removal of parts if damage or defects are found that are outside the serviceable limits.
Supersonic airliner developer Boom Technologies has narrowed down the choice of candidate engines to derivatives of existing low-bypass-ratio turbofans.
FAA has completed just under half of the initiatives it agreed to following a June 2015 “call to action” forum focused on preventing runway incursions, the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) Inspector General (IG) said.
The significant increase in flight hours required to become a U.S. airline pilot—mandated by Congress in 2010 and cemented into regulation by FAA in 2013—has had the “side effect” of “reducing the number of pilots” and should be revisited by Congress, said Elaine Chao, the U.S. transportation secretary.
PARIS—The mandate of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has been widened to include drones and urban air mobility under a new regulation due to come into force in the coming weeks.
Norwegian H225 crash probers are urging that Airbus revise the design of the helicopter’s main gearbox to improve its “robustness, reliability and safety.”
Private air service provider Surf Air has filed a counterclaim to a lawsuit filed by Encompass Aviation saying that Encompass demanded payments far in excess of proposed contract rates, among other claims.
Following months of negotiations, Boeing and Embraer have signed an MOU to set up a joint venture (JV) comprising Embraer’s commercial aircraft and services business.
Mark Burns joined Gulfstream Aerospace as a computer-aided design operator 35 years ago. Burns is now president of Gulfstream and VP of parent General Dynamics.
JAXA and Japanese industry have formed a consortium to develop tech for electrifying aircraft and incubate initiatives to grow the country’s aviation sector.
Quiet Technology Aerospace has received EASA supplemental type certificate approvals for upgraded carbon fiber inlet cowl inner barrels for four business jets.
Two members of Congress criticized the FAA for failing to implement mandatory drug and alcohol testing for workers at foreign aircraft repair stations.
