Aviation News

Veteran Air Force pilot Steve Parker, CEO of Somerset Air Service and third-generation operator of Somerset Airport (KSMQ) in Bedminster, New Jersey, alerted his customers on Jan. 16 that they are likely in for a reprise of the Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs) experienced during the previous Trump presidential administration. SMQ rests just a few miles […]

The War Zone (TWZ) website is reporting that the U.S. Air Force has “dramatically plussed-up” the budgets of contracts with engine manufacturers that are working on next-gen fighter engines. Both General Electric and Pratt & Whitney now have $3.5 billion budgets to work on their Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion (NGAP) programs. The information was released […]

Sean Duffy, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing Wisconsin, was overwhelmingly approved as the next Secretary of Transportation. The Senate vote confirming Duffy was 77 to 22. The 53-year-old served in the House between 2011 and 2019 and has since served as a commentator for Fox News and cohost of a […]

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 has broken the sound barrier, the first civil-designed non-rocket-powered aircraft to do so since Concorde. The 12th test flight of the XB-1 took off from the Mojave Air & Space Port in California at 11: 21 a.m. EST, climbed to 34,000 feet and recorded true airspeed exceeding Mach 1.0 just 10 minutes […]

The contractor that will run the Royal Canadian Air Force’s training program for the next 20 years has signed more deals for new aircraft. SkyAlyne, a partnership between KF Aerospace and CAE, announced Monday they had bought seven new Textron King Air 260s for use in its multi-engine advanced training course at Southport, Manitoba. Graduates […]

An aerospace think tank says a shortage of Air Force fighter pilots is being compounded by a shortage of airplanes and threatens its combat readiness. The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies says the impact of the shortages is exacerbated by declining pilot experience, which is threatening pilot survivability as a whole. “The Air Force’s pilot […]

Ural Airlines may have dodged a potential catastrophe in deciding against trying to take off one of their A320s from a farmer’s field as planned. The aircraft made an emergency landing in September of 2023 after running out of fuel and the initial plan was to fly it out of the field. The airline ditched […]

Lawyers for a California environmental group say a collection of FBOs and fuel distributors are trying to convince a court that they know better than the FAA what makes an acceptable aviation fuel. The Center for Environmental Health is trying to compel 17 California FBOs and the four fuel distributors that serve them to switch […]

The FAA published a final rule last week that allows online submission of aircraft registration documents. Previous regulations required registrants to submit original documents and ink-signed documents to register aircraft, but the new rule does away with almost all of that. In some cases, certified or true copies will be needed. It’s hoped the modernization […]

Both engines on the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 that crashed in South Korea last month had the remains of ducks inside, according to a preliminary report released by the government on Monday. The DNA from Baikal Teals, a common migratory bird that flocks to South Korea every winter, was identified, confirming one part of the […]