Eight years of flying U.S. Air Force F-16 Vipers in high-risk military operations failed to prepare Kirk Hawkins for the daunting civilian challenge of starting up Icon Aircraft company, maker of the A5 light sport amphibian.
Blackhawk Modifications has teamed with Innovative Solutions & Support (IS&S) to offer an IS&S new-generation flight deck and autothrottles for the King Air 200 and 350.
Globalstar subsidiary Spot has logged 5,232 “saves” over the past 10 years with its tracking and messaging service that users activate with a battery-powered handheld unit.
The commercial airline industry will need to hire more than 2 million pilots, maintenance technicians and cabin attendants over the next 20 years, largely to support the growth of airline fleets and changes in fleet mix, an updated Boeing forecast says.
The heads of the NBAA, GAMA and AOPA went to Washington this week to lobby House and Senate members to oppose the “privatization” of the FAA’s air traffic control organization in an upcoming House vote.
Three seniors from a high school in northern Virginia won this year’s Founder’s Innovation Award presented by the Experimental Aircraft Association in a “shark tank”-like competition.
The numbers are in: GE Aviation, the first corporate user of the HondaJet, says the diminutive business aircraft is boosting productivity and saving it money compared with flying on the airlines.
Gulfstream deliveries slowed slightly in the second quarter, but the business jet manufacturer is positioned to deliver as many aircraft this year as it did in 2016, says Phebe Novakovic, CEO of parent company General Dynamics (GD).
WomenVenture Day at EAA AirVenture celebrated all the accomplishments of women in aviation during the last century and all the opportunities that await them in the 21st century.
South Africa's Comair Flight Services (CFS) has completed renovations on its south side hangar at Lanseria International airport in Johannesburg and has welcomed seven additional charter aircraft to its fleet since May of this year, reports EBAN.
EAN Aviation, the Lagos-based business aviation services company, has become the first West African IS-BAH Stage 1 registered Fixed Based Operator, and only the second organization to earn the status in all of Africa. The IS-BAH Stage 1 certificate was awarded by IBAC on March 31, 2017.
Daher’s backlog of TBM 910 and 930 aircraft totals more than 200, with the majority of orders, 162, coming from North American customers, the company said at EAA AirVenture.
The world’s second flying B-29 Superfortress completed a 17-year journey with its arrival at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Aviation Week hitched a ride.
Chinese small unmanned aircraft manufacturer Ehang plans the launch next year of a commercial version of its autonomous single-passenger vertical-takeoff-and-landing air vehicle that flies without a pilot, under the control of a plug-and-play iPad.
Collisions between small-scale unmanned air vehicles and manned fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft could cause critical damage, tests performed by British agencies have found.
King Air 350, the largest and most capable version of the venerable Beech twin turboprop, is getting new aftermarket engines and propellers that will increase performance and reduce cabin sound levels.
Owners of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) weighing more than 250 grams (0.5 lb.) will have to register their systems and undertake a safety awareness test, the UK government has announced.
One Aviation is progressing on the development of the Eclipse 700, dubbed Project Canada, and has selected the Garmin G3000 avionics suite for the upgrade to its Eclipse 500/550 aircraft.
Fifteen years ago when the very light jet mania was ramping up, developers proclaimed that the gestating mini-jets would herald the demise of the propeller-driven executive turboprop.
