Safety, Ops & Regulation

Trump Administration tariffs will remain both real and unreal for the aerospace and defense sector.

The U.S. air traffic management (ATM) system used to be heralded as the gold standard of commercial airspace operations.

Ron Draper, GAMA Chairman and Textron Aviation president and CEO, and James Viola, GAMA president and CEO, answer questions about aircraft certification concerns.

The FAA is phasing out a major radar modernization program that is running late and well over budget.

In a late January post on his Truth Social platform, Trump declared that the U.S. would decertify “Bombardier Global Expresses, and all Aircraft made in Canada."

The resolution advisories (RA) dataset maintained by the NTSB has more missing data than actual reports, former NTSB recorders investigator Bill Tuccio reports.

Sustainable aviation fuel producer Neste and distributor World Fuel Services are aiming to make Neste SAF available at more than 100 airports across Europe over the next five years.

Growth across all aviation sectors contributes to elevated risk in terminal-area airspace and requires a multi-pronged approach to ensure safety, FSF says.

Saudi Arabia's regulator has granted AirX Charter the authorization to begin on-demand flights within the kingdom.

The total hours for corporate operators – by far the largest of the four operator classes with a fleet that exceeds 21,500 aircraft – came to just under 1 million hr. over the three months.

Aggregated hourly flown figures for the world’s leading business aviation carriers show that NetJets, Flexjet, VistaJet and Flyexclusive all experienced a November 2025 to January 2026 utilization ahead of the same period of 2024-25,

Avinor has begun trials in which a single aerodrome flight information service officer handles more than one airport, relying on remote operations systems.

"The biggest change in general aviation that I have probably seen in my lifetime,” one executive says. Which aviation development generated such praise?

As Airbus and Boeing prepare next-generation narrowbody aircraft, they are focusing on drastically cutting fuel consumption. A new deicing method may assist.

European airlines and airports are concerned the new Entry/Exit System border control set-up will cause severe disruptions over the peak summer months.

The FAA has reversed an order that to ground all commercial and general aviation flights from El Paso, Texas, for 10 days starting on Feb. 10.

The helicopter was 20 min. into a flight from Cabo Frio Airport to The Deep Blue when the crew detected high-amplitude vibrations.

Darren Pleasance will be replaced as president and CEO of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) just over a year after being appointed to the job.

Hutchinson, a Paris-based supplier of multi-material components, has completed its acquisition of U.S.-based anti-icing specialist Cox & Company.

Honda Aircraft Co. has added Garmin’s Emergency Autoland to its HondaJet Elite II light jet.

Trump’s ability to carry out his threat to decertify Bombardier’s Global Express and all Canadian-made aircraft is fairly low, experts say.

Speaking in Singapore, FAA Administrator Brian Bedford said it was now down to his agency to execute on U.S. air traffic management modernization.

Nine companies have signed an MOU to participate in Singapore’s first government-led, national-level sustainable aviation fuel procurement initiative.

Trump threatened, in a social media post, to decertify Canadian aircraft over Gulfstream certification delays, sparking industry concerns.

A PC-12's unannounced U-turn on Saint Barthelemy's runway during a DHC-6 landing highlights safety risks and AFIS agents' lack of authority, BEA reports.