A funding bill approved by the House Committee on Appropriations promotes workforce development, retains an N-number blocking privacy program and supports air traffic control modernization.
Turkish Airlines Boeing 747 freighter crash attributed to crew starting descent to Kyrgyzstan airport too late, but report cites confusion over green advisory display.
The FAA has joined NASA in using the phrase Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) to describe a broader vision for what until recently has been called urban air mobility (UAM).
Embraer has signed a contract for a capital investment in Tempest Security Intelligence, giving it a majority interest in the largest cybersecurity company in Brazil.
The UK government has published a list of countries from which international arrivals to England will not have to self-isolate, including France, Greece, Italy, Spain and other popular tourist destinations.
“We’re taking a very aggressive position right now, in trying to get more and more companies into the standard airworthiness process,” the head of FAA's UAS Integration Office said July 1.
The slackening of air traffic worldwide during the coronavirus pandemic offers time to take stock of what Collins Aerospace calls the Datalink Dilemma—the increasing volume of aircraft communications addressing and reporting system (ACARS) data sent over VHF frequencies.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a citation and penalty to Textron Aviation as part of its investigation into a December explosion at its Wichita Plant 3 facility that injured 15 employees.
The European Business Aviation Association and General Aviation Manufacturers Association have joined with 11 other air transport bodies to urge European Union leaders to link COVID-19 recovery funding initiatives to ongoing carbon-reduction programs.
Be The Match, a not-for-profit operated by the National Marrow Donor Program, has a particular shortage of volunteer pilots to fly donors or bone marrow and their couriers in the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain regions of the U.S. and between Canada and the U.S.
FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said that the agency is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “and others” to have a set of recommendations for U.S. travel.
A bipartisan U.S. Senate bill targeting FAA certification improvements places substantial emphasis on human-factors research and funding, echoing several reports produced in the wake of the Boeing 737 MAX accidents and subsequent grounding.
IATA wants countries to mutually recognize and accept COVID-19 tests on passengers performed within 24 hours of their flight rather than institute lengthy quarantines on incoming travelers.
The FAA has rejected a multi-organization request for more time to provide feedback on its proposed changes to the Pilot Records Database, retaining the June 29 comment deadline published in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM).
The UK government’s imposition of a 14-day quarantine on passengers arriving in the country has nipped British business aviation’s nascent recovery in the bud.
