The FAA is lagging in resolving security risks that could affect the availability of data communications linking pilots and controllers, the U.S. Transportation Department IG reports.
Bombardier Business Aircraft is offering a Rockwell Collins Head-Up Display and Enhanced Vision System as an option on Challenger 350 super midsized business jets.
In the July 2 story entitled In Founder’s Second Act, Lee Aerospace Growing, a company official said that the business aircaft industry, rather than the company, hasn’t returned to where it was back in 2008 before the economic downturn.
TAG Aviation Europe has introduced the first Bombardier Global 5000 ultra long-range aircraft equipped with a Premier cabin for charter service in Europe, it said.
Simcom Aviation Training has added a new Citation Mustang FAA Level C full-flight simulator and is offering initial, recurrent and upgrade training for Mustang aircraft.
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.
