At press time, the crew of a U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler is still missing, though the wreckage had been located near Mount Rainier in Washington State. The jet crashed while on a training mission on Tuesday (Oct. 15) at around 3:23 p.m. local time. Aerial search crews located the wreckage on Wednesday around 12:30 in […]
In a one-paragraph letter, the FAA legal team reported this week it is placing the so-called Moss Interpretation of maintenance supervision requirements on indefinite, but not permanent, hold. Industry groups and specifically Mike Busch of Savvy Aviation had protested that the interpretation would do irreparable harm to enabling apprenticeships and aircraft owner maintenance in general […]
Passengers and crew of Air India Flight 127 spent 18 hours stranded at the international security zone of Iqaluit International Airport in the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut. The flight, scheduled from New Delhi to Chicago, made a precautionary landing at the airport early Tuesday morning (Oct. 15), after a bomb threat. While passengers told […]
A Canadian husband and wife pleaded guilty to embezzling a total of more than C$82,000 (US$59,463) from Canada’s volunteer Civil Air Search and Rescue Association (CASARA), the Canadian equivalent of the U.S. Civil Air Patrol. Yesterday morning (Oct. 16), Brian and Marina Bishop, aged 74 and 71 respectively, appeared in provincial court in St. John’s […]
The Association of California Airports (ACA) recently wrapped up its largest annual conference to date—drawing more than 170 attendees from across the state, officials announced in a press release. The conference, which took place Oct. 2 to 4 in South Lake Tahoe, was the highest attended conference since ACA’s founding in 1997. The two-day conference […]
On Tuesday, the Federal Aviation Administration announced that it will begin an audit to assess runway incursion risks at the 45 busiest airports in the U.S. According to Reuters, the audit will evaluate each airport’s risks, identify potential issues with procedures and equipment and make recommendations to improve safety. FAA’s Air Traffic Safety Oversight Service […]
Discussions on the future of Cleveland’s Burke Lakefront Airport have reignited following the release of two recent studies that suggest closing the airport could be economically beneficial for the city. The two studies, released last month, outline options for closing the airport and consider potential redevelopment scenarios. Both reports highlight that most airport operations could […]
Garmin unveiled its latest integrated flight deck, the G3000 PRIME, on Wednesday. One significant feature of the new system is its all-touchscreen displays, which eliminate the need for the touchscreen controllers found in the current G3000 and G5000 avionics. Garmin says the G3000 PRIME is FAA TSO certified and is designed to meet the needs […]
Sikorsky, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, announced yesterday (Oct. 14) it has received a $6 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to advance its flight autonomy program. The government funding will go toward installing Sikorsky’s ALIAS/MATRIX (Aircrew Labor In-cockpit Automation System) in a U.S. Army experimental fly-by-wire Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk […]
Skeptics maintain that sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is an idea founded on—bovine excrement. Now the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has developed a technology that might prove them right. But not in the way they think. A report yesterday (Oct. 14) in the Michigan Farm News reveals that the DOE program, rather […]
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