The FAA has awarded Dassault Aviation a supplemental type certificate (STC) allowing installation of Universal Avionics’ InSight display system upgrade on the Dassault Falcon 900B trijet, Universal announced on Sept. 6.

The NTSB on Sept. 6 took over the search for wreckage of a DHC-3T Turbine Otter seaplane that crashed in the Puget Sound northwest of Seattle, with the presumed loss of all 10 people aboard.

Business aviation is getting bigger, and so are the flagship models of the future.

We’re headed to the Matterhorn.

Against the backdrop of an increasingly pressing need for new flight decks, Dassault Aviation has been working with ISAE-SupAero’s Department of Aerospace Vehicles Design and Control (DCAS) in Toulouse, which has set up a teaching and research chair on the architecture of cognitive air systems.

Montreal-based startup VPorts plans to build a network of vertiports in Quebec, focused initially on regional cargo and medical transportation using electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. 

The move signals the growing importance of electric power in new aircraft designs.

As novel cockpits become a pressing need in civil and military aviation, sensors may enable the creation of metrics for human factors.