Now that the country’s Ministry of Economic Development and Supervisory Committee have issued final approval, Piaggio Aerospace and Banca Ifis have signed a contract for financing on contracts and factoring operations for €30 million euros ($357 million).
FAA receives more than 100 reports of drone sightings by pilots, citizens and police each month—it lists more than 400 in its latest report, for the April-June period.
The FAA says it will continue the work of a soon-to-end pilot effort with local and state governments and industry to introduce drones more regularly into the airspace system.
Planned flight trials at FAA-designated UAS test sites in New York and Virginia will evaluate remote-identification technologies to track drones from the ground in increasingly complex traffic environments.
A robust low-boom design method developed by Japanese researchers should make it easier to certify future quiet supersonic transports, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) says.
Worldwide turboprop utilization in July reached its highest levels so far in 2020, with 85,574 multi-engine flight hours and 61,510 single-engine flight hours, according to Aviation Week Intelligence Network flight tracking data.
General aviation operations at Chicago Executive Airport reached a five-year record for traffic in July, following a drop in the spring from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority in Pennsylvania joined state and local officials to celebrate the completion of Hangar 11 at Lehigh Valley International Airport.
NTSB attributes freighter crash to “the inappropriate response by the first officer as the pilot flying to an inadvertent activation of the go-around mode."
