The heads of the NBAA, GAMA and AOPA went to Washington this week to lobby House and Senate members to oppose the “privatization” of the FAA’s air traffic control organization in an upcoming House vote.
Three seniors from a high school in northern Virginia won this year’s Founder’s Innovation Award presented by the Experimental Aircraft Association in a “shark tank”-like competition.
The numbers are in: GE Aviation, the first corporate user of the HondaJet, says the diminutive business aircraft is boosting productivity and saving it money compared with flying on the airlines.
Gulfstream deliveries slowed slightly in the second quarter, but the business jet manufacturer is positioned to deliver as many aircraft this year as it did in 2016, says Phebe Novakovic, CEO of parent company General Dynamics (GD).
WomenVenture Day at EAA AirVenture celebrated all the accomplishments of women in aviation during the last century and all the opportunities that await them in the 21st century.
Daher’s backlog of TBM 910 and 930 aircraft totals more than 200, with the majority of orders, 162, coming from North American customers, the company said at EAA AirVenture.
The world’s second flying B-29 Superfortress completed a 17-year journey with its arrival at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Aviation Week hitched a ride.
Chinese small unmanned aircraft manufacturer Ehang plans the launch next year of a commercial version of its autonomous single-passenger vertical-takeoff-and-landing air vehicle that flies without a pilot, under the control of a plug-and-play iPad.
Collisions between small-scale unmanned air vehicles and manned fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft could cause critical damage, tests performed by British agencies have found.
King Air 350, the largest and most capable version of the venerable Beech twin turboprop, is getting new aftermarket engines and propellers that will increase performance and reduce cabin sound levels.
One Aviation is progressing on the development of the Eclipse 700, dubbed Project Canada, and has selected the Garmin G3000 avionics suite for the upgrade to its Eclipse 500/550 aircraft.
The vehicle currently occupies an awkward spot as being too heavy to fit the Federal Aviation Administration’s 55-lb weight limit for commercial drones, yet it cannot qualify as an experimental aircraft because it is autonomous and has no pilot.
Ryann Richardson has joined Victor at the jet charter company’s Manhattan, New York, headquarters and will serve as vice president of marketing in North America.
Embraer Executive Jets has delivered the fourth Legacy 450 mid-light business jet to Canadian fractional ownership company AirSprint, based in Calgary, Alberta.
Mooney International Corp. will provide a one-year subscription to SiriusXM’s satellite-delivered top-tier aviation weather and information services plus audio entertainment with the purchase of a new Mooney aircraft.
