Preliminary conclusions reached by a U.S. congressional team investigating the Boeing 737 MAX certification and its role in two fatal accidents underscore the need to change the FAA’s processes through legislation, committee leaders said.
A report commissioned by the Norwegian government recommends Norway should be a driving force in the development, testing and early implementation of electrified aircraft.
The UK will withdraw as a member state of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) after a transition period and shift responsibility for aircraft certification and safety regulation to its own Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), British Transportation Secretary Grant Shapps said.
Organizers of Aero Friedrichshafen in Germany have postponed the show, scheduled for April 1-4, to a yet undetermined date because of the spread of COVID-19.
Business aviation operators are feeling the impact from the spread of the COVID-19 virus and are adopting a variety of risk management solutions to cope.
Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 third-scale demonstrator for the Mach 2.2 Overture airliner is now planned to fly by mid-2021, CEO Blake Scholl told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Aviation Summit in Washington on March 5.
Organizers of the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition set for May 26-28 in Geneva are proceeding with planning for Europe’s largest business aviation event, but keeping watch on a fluid situation related to the coronavirus outbreak.
World Fuel Services has completed the $170 million acquisition of the UVair fuel business from Universal Weather and Aviation, making it the exclusive contract provider for Universal Weather and Aviation.
Civil helicopter deliveries declined 16% in 2019—from 979 aircraft in 2018 to 819—with the largest drop coming from piston rotorcraft deliveries, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) says.
Signature Aviation turned in a “transformational” 2019, while its FBO division outperformed a flat U.S. business and general aviation market, the company reports.
U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) auditors will examine the FAA’s recently-updated safety inspector staffing model with an eye on evaluating whether forecasted personnel needs are accurate, and how the agency factors in designees.
The GoFly team is considering its next step after high winds on Feb. 27-29 prevented the final fly-off between personal flying devices competing for a $1 million grand prize.
Startup Joby Aviation will be the only electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing developer to provide a vehicle for flight testing in NASA’s urban air mobility Grand Challenge development testing event this year.
The public comment period for the FAA’s Remote Identification of Unmanned Aircraft Systems draft regulation closed just before midnight on March 2, with 51,006 comments counted.
