U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx met with Kansas aviation leaders and government officials Aug. 19 in a discussion about FAA reauthorization, drones, certification and other issues facing the industry.
Bombardier said that its all-new C Series Aircraft has performed more than 80% of its required certification testing with more than 2,250 flight hours to date.
Pilots flying for oil and gas operators in the North Sea strongly support striking over concerns about job losses, the British Air Line Pilots Association (BALPA) says.
A former House Aviation Subcommittee chairman is calling on the FAA to provide a “full report” on the causes and reactions to the air traffic control automation system glitch that he says caused 475 canceled flights at the three Washington, D.C.-area airports on Aug. 15.
Global aero communications specialist Gogo Inc. announced Aug. 19 that it has entered into a multifaceted partnership with NASCAR champion driver Brad Keselowski.
Teterboro Airport in Teterboro, N.J., was the most popular North American business aviation airport in July, according to an analysis of acukwik.com traffic.
Declines in demand at its two largest airframe business units, Haeco Xaimen and Haeco Americas, contributed to an overall 1.8% year-over-year decline in total airframe manhour services sold through the first six months of the year, and those markets are not expected to rebound before 2016, Haeco Ltd., executives say.
While unmanned aircraft have received bad press for forcing firefighters to halt aerial operations when one is sighted, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are widely regarded as potentially powerful tools for fighting wildfires that are becoming increasingly destructive as urban development expands into unoccupied land.
The deadline to comply with the FAA’s NextGen mandate to move beyond 2020 will not move, the FAA administrator says. And pilots have reported seeing unmanned aircraft more than 650 times so far this year, the FAA says. Plus, a federal report cites a faulty carburetor that led to the loss of engine power as the probable cause of the crash of Harrison Ford’s vintage aircraft. Finally, Cessna Aircraft’s Citation M2 business jet has received certification to operate at high-elevation airports.
Business aviation is operating at 83% of the sector’s peak levels of 2008, according to Jet Support Services, Inc., which tracks business aircraft flight hours. Flight hours in the second quarter grew 2.9% from a year ago. Q1 2008 marked the decade’s highest activity rate, JSSI said. In the second quarter of this year, monthly usage totaled 27.75 hr. per aircraft, down from the 2008 peak of 33.45 hr., but up notably from the first quarter of this year.
Embraer Executive Jets delivered its first Legacy 500 midsize jet to a customer in Mexico. The aircraft will be operated by Transpais Aereo, a subsidiary of the Lomex Group Aeronautics Division. The Legacy 500 received type certification from Mexico’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority in June.
Pentastar Aviation has added 11 aircraft to its aircraft management fleet in the past 10 months, the Waterford, Michigan-based company said. Pentastar has added three Hawker 400s, a Hawker 850, a Citation Sovereign, a Falcon 2000LXS, a Gulfstream GIV, three Gulfstream GVs and an MD-81. Improvements in the economy are allowing more companies to use business aviation, the company said.
FlightSafety International has selected Aeroglobo to provide Pratt & Whitney Canada Engine training in Brazil, the company said. Training will be offered at Aeroglobo’s facility in Botucatu, Brazil, for P&WC PT6T, PT6A, PT6B, PW100-Series, PW200-Series and PW500 engines. The facility will be equipped with training engines and FlightSafety’s Graphical FlightDeck and desktop simulators, and instructors will provide classroom and hands-on instruction.
AIE, based in Murrieta, California, has completed the first installation of the L-3 Modular Airborne Data Recorder/Acquisition System Single-LRU in the DHC-6-300 Twin Otter, the company said. The FA5300 series records up to 2,048 words-per-second for a minimum of 25 hr. and has the capability of recording four channels of high-quality audio for up to 2. hr.
