Business aircraft flight activity in North America rose 5.3% in April compared to a year ago, led by an 11% upturn in the Part 135 market, Argus International TraqPak data shows.
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) this September will hold the first of what officials hope will be a yearly event concerning small UAS.
A year after forming a commercial business unit in a bid to expand out of its core defense market, unmanned aircraft manufacturer Insitu has unveiled a revamped suite of remote-sensing and information-processing services.
Airbus has formed a U.S.-based company, called Airbus Aerial, to bring together commercial satellite and unmanned aircraft remote sensing to provide data collection and image processing services to large and global enterprise customers.
Logos Technologies’s Redkite sensor has captured and streamed wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) to multiple handheld devices in flight tests on Insitu’s Integrator tactical unmanned aircraft system (UAS).
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said it is “not possible to fully determine the magnitude of the risk” associated with continued operation of ATR 42 and ATR 72 twin turboprops until a wide-ranging engineering analysis underway at ATR is complete in July.
Gulfstream Aerospace has added its third flight test G600 aircraft to its flight test program. The aircraft completed its first flight May 5 and will undergo numerous system tests required for FAA certification, expected in 2018. It will undergo field performance testing to assess handling in multiple runway configurations to generate takeoff and landing data. The first G600 flew its maiden flight in December. A second test aircraft flew on Feb. 24.
Tradewind Aviation, which operates shuttle and on-demand flights in the U.S. and Caribbean, has added three new Pilatus PC-12 eight-seat aircraft to its fleet and added a new hub at Hanscom Field in Bedford, Massachusetts. Tradewind, which operates scheduled service from Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York, now operates 21 aircraft, including 18 PC-12 turboprops and three Citation light business jets. It operates the second largest civilian Pilatus fleet in North America.
The restored B-29 Superfortress known as “Doc” logged a successful maintenance flight May 4 and cleared the way for the warbird’s first air show stop for the Defenders of Liberty Air Show at Barksdale AFB in Louisiana.
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Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Co., the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Bahrain, has acquired a significant minority stake in Axtmann Aviation Holding.
