The European Commission (EC) has sent member states a draft of proposed changes to state aid rules give them more flexibility to support companies hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, as airline and airport groups called for more support.
Targeting the safety record of general aviation and helicopters, a U.S. startup is certifying a high-reliability fly-by-wire system that can be retrofitted across a wide range of aircraft to provide simplified flight control with full envelope protection.
European aviation groups are focusing anew on illegal charter flights fueled by the release of a report of an accident involving a Piper Malibu in January 2019 that took the lives of Argentine football player Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson.
Garmin said Mar. 11 that it has obtained EASA approval of an automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) upgrade of Dornier 328 regional jet and turboprop aircraft.
Battery thermal-management company Kulr Technology Group has developed a design for lithium-ion batteries that prevents cell-to-cell propagation of a thermal runaway.
Textron Aviation will harness wind energy to supply nearly all of its energy needs at its factories in Wichita and Independence, Kansas, under a 20-year wind energy agreement with Evergy, the company says.
The UK will need people skilled in airspace design as it rolls out a major, nation-wide update of its airspace system, British Transportation Secretary Grant Shapps has said in an exclusive interview with Aviation Week Network.
British Transportation Secretary Grant Shapps said that 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). Is leaving EASA a good idea for the UK? Vote in our latest poll.
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.
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.
A proposed law targeting changes in U.S. aircraft certification calls for tweaks to the FAA’s delegation system, but the bill’s more significant elements include adding operational data, such as minimum training requirements, to type certificates (TCs) and prohibiting aircraft sales to countries that do not pass the FAA’s international safety audit.
Contract pilots enjoy better pay today than ever, and they get to set their own schedules. But they need to remain vigilant to the safety and legal threats of each new flight.
Daher’s 2020 Model TBM 940 turboprops will include Garmin’s Autoland system, which guides the aircraft to a landing in the event the pilot is incapacitated, the company announced Feb. 24.
