Aviation News

Diamond Aircraft announced this week it delivered its first example of the DA62 MPP special missions piston twin to United ATS, which Austria-based Diamond describes as “a prominent aviation services provider in the Middle East and North Africa.” Key components of the MPP version of the popular Diamond twin include Leica’s latest CityMapper-2 camera for […]

Tecnam announced this week its P2006T NG (Next Generation) piston twin has been granted European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certification. The news comes 15 years after the original P2006T entered the market. Among the improvements is a redesigned flight deck with a center console accommodating a Garmin GCU 477 Flight Management System (FMS) keyboard linked […]

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) is soliciting input for its Survey on Private Pilot Flight Frequency, Optional Recurrent Training and Attitudes to Flight Proficiency. The five-minute, anonymous survey is designed to gather data on annual flying/frequency hours for private pilots as well as evaluate attitudes toward recurrent flight training as a means of improving general aviation […]

Hartzell Propeller announced today (Feb. 25) its new Falcon composite propeller series. The Falcon series kicks off with the Kestrel, a lightweight, constant-speed propeller designed specifically for aircraft powered by the Rotax 916 engine. Piqua, Ohio-based Hartzell said the Kestrel has received ASTM approval and FAA certification is expected later this year. The launch application […]

Piper Aircraft issued a “Customer Communication” this afternoon (Feb. 25) informing Piper operators it does not approve using any fuels that have received FAA Supplemental Type Certificates (STCs) in its aircraft. The letter (copied in full below) said, in part, “At this time, without additional information regarding fuels that have undergone the STC approval process, […]

Southwest Flight 2504 executed a heart-stopping last-second go-around at Chicago Midway Airport (KMDW) this morning to avoid a business jet that taxied onto the landing Runway 31C. The incident occurred at around 9:00 a.m. local time (CST). The Southwest Boeing 737-800 was arriving on a flight from Eppley Airfield (KOMA) in Omaha, Nebraska. You can […]

EVTOL hopeful Lilium has all but thrown in the towel with a second insolvency filing that will likely be its last, according to a company statement. “As the funding options to secure Lilium’s future have not materialized in time, Lilium Aerospace has filed for insolvency today,” the company said. “While talks about alternative solutions are […]

For the second time in less than a week, Delta flights have been diverted because of smoke in the cabin. The most recent was Monday when a Boeing 717 on its way to Columbia, South Carolina, turned around almost immediately and landed back in Atlanta. The plane was evacuated on the runway with emergency slides […]

Airbus says it may divert deliveries from the U.S. if tariffs raise prices to its American customers. In an unusually blunt statement at a company news conference last week CEO Guillaume Faury said he would not hesitate to “prioritize deliveries” to non-U.S. customers if the government imposes any of the wide-ranging tariffs that have been […]

SpaceX says it has fixed the issues that led to the intentional destruction of the upper stage of the seventh test of the Starship system on Jan. 16. The spacecraft automatically blew itself up and sent debris raining down over the Turks and Caicos about 10 minutes after launch from SpaceX’s launch facility in southern […]