As the aerospace industry learns to live with COVID, it faces other big challenges from a stressed supply chain to geopolitical disruptions. Listen in as our editors discuss.

Helicopter Association International and other aviation organizations reacted to the FAA’s prior-night release of nearly 1,500 Notices To Air Missions (NOTAMS) that will restrict flight operations near 5G cellular towers that AT&T and Verizon plan to activate on Jan. 19.

Teresa Ortega, a commercially-rated pilot and 25-year Textron Aviation veteran, founded Wichita-based Ortega Aviation Services with her flight instructor husband, Kirby Ortega, a former Textron Aviation chief pilot for piston engine operations, in 2018.

Teri Bristol, the top federal executive responsible for running the U.S. air traffic control system, will retire at the end of February, FAA Administrator Steve Dickson announced.

Airline industry stakeholders are working to assess the real-world ramifications of new flight restrictions linked to the 5G wireless network rollout starting Jan. 19, but early indications suggest potentially significant disruptions at scores of commercial airports across the U.S.

Regent Craft has teamed with Rhode Island-based marine and aerospace composites specialist Moore Brothers to build a quarter-scale technology demonstrator for its seaglider, an electric wing-in-ground-effect vehicle for harbor-to-harbor overwater regional transportation.

Italian regional airline EGO Airways has had its AOC and Air Transport License suspended by the country’s aviation regulator, ENAC. 

The pilot of a Gates Learjet 35A medical jet that crashed in El Cajon, California, on Dec. 27, 2021, had asked to switch from an instrument to a visual approach to land before the jet went down in a residential area, the NTSB said in a preliminary accident report released on Jan. 11.