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The UK is seeking input on the design of vertiports at existing airfields.

The National Business Aviation Association is encouraging members to contact the Senate leaders to request that they pass the bill.

Two 100M fuel candidates were suspended.

We may be witnessing the slow demise of what was once the world’s greatest aerospace company, with few identifiable roadblocks to an act of self-immolation.

Viasat demonstrated its system using Cranfield University’s National Flying Laboratory Center’s Saab 340B twin-turboprop in January.

FAA recommends visual inspections of Boeing 737-900ER mid-cabin door plugs after some operators have found loose bolts during earlier voluntary inspections.

Investigators are examining an engine fire on an Atlas Air Boeing 747-8F that had to return to Miami International Airport shortly after takeoff on Jan. 18.

Two fatal 737-8 accidents, deficient quality on multiple programs, and recent 737-9 issues mean FAA would be justified in scrutinizing anything Boeing proposes.

Boeing’s newest 737-7 exemption request faces opposition from inside and outside the FAA.

Listen in as editors analyze how the Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 door plug incident has affected airlines globally—and what this means for Boeing.

Neither the FAA nor Boeing will discuss the process or speculate on how long the inspection review will take.

ICAO’s third Conference on Aviation and Alternative Fuels reached an agreement to reduce CO2 emissions in international aviation by 5% by 2030.

The review led by retired U.S. Navy Admiral Kirk Donald will examine Boeing’s commercial airplane quality management as well as its supplier quality oversight.

Japanese eVTOL startup SkyDrive has secured additional Series C funding through a third-party allotment of new shares to existing investor Suzuki Motor.

“The FAA is exploring the use of an independent third party to oversee Boeing’s inspections and its quality system,” FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker said.

Problematic Spirit AeroSystems-supplied 737-9 panels evaded Boeing quality checks and may have caused a Jan. 5 Alaska Airlines accident.

“This incident should have never happened, and it cannot happen again,” the FAA said.

“We’re not going to point fingers,” the Boeing CEO said. “Because, yes, it escaped their factory; but then it escaped ours too. So, we’re all in this together.”

XPeng AeroHT plans to start making its “Land Aircraft Carrier:” an electric, off-road SUV that carries a two-passenger personal eVTOL aircraft in its trunk.

Asia Pacific regulators are taking different approaches to the U.S. FAA’s recent order to ground the Boeing 737-9, although the effects are largely minimal.

Ampaire CEO Kevin Noertker says a half-size version of its flagship product—the AMP-H270—is poised to hike performance of smaller general aviation aircraft.

FAA said there are 171 Boeing 737-9s worldwide with the panel-like plug configuration under scrutiny.

NTSB reports that the door "plug" which detached from an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 during a mid-air incident Jan. 5 has now been found.

Gulfstream intended to receive FAA certification for its G700 ultra-long-range jet in the fourth quarter 2023, but that did not happen.

The certification makes the two-seat carbon fiber A5 one of only a few light sport aircraft to meet the certification standards of the FAA.