Panasonic Corp. of Japan and its U.S. subsidiary Panasonic Avionics Corp. (PAC) will pay $280 million to resolve Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and accounting fraud violations, the U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced separately on April 30.
ALE Service Center in Toluca, Mexico, has completed its first installation of Rockwell Collins’ Venue cabin management and entertainment system in Latin America.
CAA International, in partnership with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), has delivered an aerodrome certification course for 36 delegates from 14 African countries in Nairobi, Kenya.
Million Air Syracuse has completed construction of a $10 million, 11,000-sq.-ft. FBO facility and 28,000-sq.-ft. hangar at Hancock International Airport in Syracuse, New York.
Former NASA astronaut and space shuttle commander Charlie Precourt will be the keynote speaker at Textron Aviation’s 2018 customer conference May 14-16 in Wichita.
Millennium International has finalized the completion of a 1,050-sq.-ft. Class 100 clean room in an expansion of its 9,500-sq.-ft. facility in Lee’s Summit, Missouri.
A privacy watchdog organization has filed suit against FAA’s Drone Advisory Committee (DAC), charging that the industry-government group has failed to release records and make subcommittee and task group meetings open to the public in violation of federal open-meeting requirements.
The U.S. Congress took a major step toward bringing an end to more than three years of contentious debate over FAA reauthorization with the House voting overwhelming to pass legislation that would authorize the agency through Sept. 30, 2023.
Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pennsylvania) agreed to remove a controversial proposal from a “Manager’s Amendment” included in an FAA long-term funding bill, which would have moved management of the FAA to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Fred Schrameck, the former CEO of Epic Air of Bend, Oregon, has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud for a scheme involving his consumer aviation company, Aircraft Completion Services
The used aircraft market is stabilizing with asset quality and pricing at their best points in the past six months and many asking prices increasing, according to Asset Insight’s first-quarter 2018 market report.
JetBlue Airways’ commercial tie-up with boutique scheduled charter operator JetSuiteX is both a long-term play for the mainline carrier and an indicator of how underserved communities could regain air-service network connectivity without relying directly on traditional airlines.
