Virgin Galactic has begun glide flights of the second, and significantly improved, SpaceShipTwo (SS2) sub-orbital vehicle after completing a fourth, and final, captive carriage flight under the WhiteKnightTwo mothership.
The letter-of-intent covers financing by Vnesheconombank for deliveries of five twin-engine regional jets to be manufactured by JSC Sukhoi Civil Aircraft and customized by SuperJet International. The letter of intent expands earlier funding related to three SSJ100 aircraft produced for CityJet this year.
Upgrading the Bell 412 for Japan’s UH-X military program will produce a significantly improved helicopter for the civil market, including a higher gross weight.
Industry analysts see UTC's decision to keep 1,000 jobs in Indiana at the urging of President-elect Donald Trump as a sign that outsourcing is losing its luster.
Congress has decided not to completely hamstring U.S. Air Force programs to replace the antiquated EC-130H Compass Call electronic attack turboprop and E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System.
Increased business jet deliveries in North America and Western Europe during the third quarter helped offset declining shipments to emerging market regions, along with China and Latin America, according to a just-released UBS market research report.
The wx24Pilot app Version 2.0, a weather forecasting application, has been expanded to include verifiable and more complete weather information from dozens of additional sites within a 150-mi. boundary of a pilot’s direct line of flight.
Officials in the FAA’s UAS test sites across the U.S. are carving out hundreds of linear miles of airspace for proving the technologies and procedures needed for widespread beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations, a linchpin for success of commercial UAS ventures and other routine operations.
The FAA’s UAS test sites across the U.S. are carving out hundreds of linear miles of airspace for proving out the technologies and procedures needed for widespread beyond visual line of sight operations.
Spirit AeroSystems, a major aerostructures supplier, is looking at an offer of early retirements for about 1,000 of its nearly 11,000 employees in Wichita.
Wheels Up, a membership-based private aviation company out of New York, has begun offering flights to and from Havana on its fleet of King Air 350i twin turboprops and Citation Excel/XLS twin-jets.
Investigators likely will look into electrical problems and possible fuel exhaustion first when researching the Nov. 28 crash of a British Aerospace BAe 146-200 jet.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s expected choice of Elaine Chao to lead the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) signals the incoming administration is committed to his pledge to spend up to $1 trillion on infrastructure, and that could be good news for the aviation industry.
Europe is wrapping up tests of a tail design that would reduce the airport noise generated by future business jets, and potentially advanced narrowbody airliners.
JSC Sukhoi Civil Aircraft, Vnesheconombank and Superjet International have signed a letter of intent for the funding of Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft deliveries to CityJet, an Irish regional airline.
Teterboro Airport ranked No. 1 again, and the rest of the top five business aviation airports measured by acukwik.com user traffic during October 2016 were mostly stable, according to site metrics.
The FAA is seeking vendors of remote ATC tower systems to compete for the contract to build one at a business and general aviation facility 50 mi. north of Denver.
