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Airbus is now 100 days in to its helicopter-for-hire experiment in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and says the Voom project is already having a “significant impact.” The routes take travelers between the city center and the outlying airports, cutting an “unbearable” three-hour ride in heavy traffic down to just 11 minutes by helicopter. “This is just […]

Icon has started to deliver airplanes to customers and let them “take them home and fly them wherever they want,” the company said in its annual newsletter, issued on Tuesday. The first deliveries, completed in June and July, went to owners in Seattle, Montana and California. To support these A5s out in the field, Icon […]

FltPlan.com announces FltLogic, their powerful, web-based flight scheduling program. FltLogic is the only flight scheduling program that integrates with FltPlan.com to offer accurate departure/arrival times and estimated times enroute. FltLogic is comprehensive, full-featured, and designed to meet the needs and budgets of Part 91 flight departments.FltLogic simplifies the process of scheduling and managing single and […]

It all started a few decades ago in a place 8500 miles away. Walt Fricke was in the copilot’s seat of an Army helo in the midst of the chaos of a combat assault in Vietnam. When the crew fired the air-to-ground rockets, one exploded leaving the tube. Shrapnel blasted into one of Walt’s legs, […]

Surf Air, which operates an “all you can fly” membership service with its fleet of Pilatus PC-12 turboprops based in northern California, has acquired Rise, a similar operation based in Texas, and its closest competitor. The consolidation brings the total number of weekly flights for Surf Air up to 445, serving 17 destinations. “Today, the […]

The Bahamas is the first neighboring country to the U.S. to accept BasicMed as a medical qualification for U.S. pilots flying in its airspace. BasicMed went into effect on May 1 and allows pilots to fly up to five passengers on day or night VFR or IFR pleasure flights (not for compensation or hire) in […]

SOUTHBURY, CT, May 12, 2017 – This is the eighth year for the Pilots’ Choice survey and as FltPlan’s numbers have grown so have the number of votes cast. With more than 160,000 active, registered users, most of whom fly multiple weekly trips, FltPlan users are the customers who frequent the FBOs and airports they […]

AVweb’s General Aviation Accident Bulletin is taken from the pages of our sister publication, Aviation Safety magazine and is published twice a month. All the reports listed here are preliminary and include only initial factual findings about crashes. You can learn more about the final probable cause in the NTSB’s web site at www.ntsb.gov. Final […]

Construction is underway on a hangar at the Roswell International Air Center (RIAC) that will allow General Airframe Support to move forward with a major expansion of its national business, the latest project that demonstrates the growth and continuing business potential at the air center in southeast New Mexico.General Airframe Support (GenAir), which has been […]

The last remaining tools and equipment are being installed at Icon Aircraft’s composite production facility in Mexico, and the company says the factory is scheduled to be fully completed in April, with the first set of parts sent to the Vacaville, California, assembly line in June. The carbon fiber parts for the Icon A5 were […]