Deliveries of piston aircraft, business jets and turboprops increased in each category during the first half of 2022, with aircraft billings up 5.2%, according to the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA).
Bluetail has launched an onsite scanning network serviced by a crowdsourced community of Aircraft & Powerplant technicians, aircraft records specialists, and other aviation technical professionals.
Hillsboro Aviation accepted its first delivery of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from Avfuel Corporation this month, becoming the first business aviation service provider to offer SAF in Oregon.
With wildfires raging across Europe, German aerospace center DLR has announced the winners of a university challenge to design an optimized fleet of firefighting aircraft, with first place going to a team from the University of Stuttgart and its hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing design.
Avionics manufacturer FreeFlight Systems announced that its “5G tolerant” Terrain-series radar altimeters have received FAA design and production approval.
Ottawa and Berlin have committed to a Canada-Germany Hydrogen Alliance to boost investment, production and transatlantic trade in hydrogen, with a goal to export clean hydrogen from Canada to Germany as soon as 2025.
After successfully completing its first hover test in July, AIR ONE, the inaugural eVTOL vehicle of Israeli personal air mobility start-up, AIR, made an appearance at this year’s EAA Airventure Oshkosh.
Business and general aviation avionics sales totaled $708.7 million during the second quarter (Q2) of 2022, bringing sales during the first half of the year to more than $1.34 billion, according to a survey by the Aircraft Electronics Association.
You can imagine the frustration of Airbus’ engineers. Just hours before the company’s Zephyr high-altitude pseudo-satellite looked set to break a 60-year-old flight-duration record, the solar-powered uncrewed aircraft system was lost.
A series of fatal accidents involving agricultural aircraft in July and August has attracted FAA attention and served as a grim reminder of the dangers of low-l