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General aviation avionics sales for the second quarter (Q2) of 2023 hit the highest quarterly sales volume in the history of the Aircraft Electronics Association’s (AEA) Avionics Market Report, according to the organization. The Q2 2023 report found that sales for the quarter, which came in at $823 million, rose 5.9 percent from the previous […]

Airbus has been awarded a $27.8 million contract by the U.S. Army aimed at expanding the capabilities of the UH-72A Lakota twin-engine utility helicopter. Called the Army National Guard Security and Support Battalion Mission Equipment Package (MEP), the upgrades include an advanced moving map, enhanced digital interfaces, new monitors and an airborne mission management system. […]

The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) has announced that it will induct five new members into the Sport Aviation Halls of Fame for 2023. Each individual was selected for one of the organization’s five Halls of Fame representing homebuilders, ultralights, the International Aerobatic Club, the Vintage Aircraft Association and EAA Warbirds of America. A ceremony honoring […]

Boeing has chosen an old McDonnell-Douglas airliner as the test bed for the Transonic Truss Braced Wing that it hopes will eventually lift a new-generation passenger aircraft toward sustainability. NASA has contracted Boeing to build a Sustainable Flight Demonstrator and key to the design is a set of long, thin wings that are braced by […]

The NTSB says a balloon pilot was likely impaired by cannabis and cocaine when he and four passengers died in a sightseeing flight in Albuquerque in June of 2021. In its final report (search WPR21FA242 here) on the accident, the board cited the drug use as a contributing factor. “The pilot’s cavity blood THC concentration […]

Nav Canada says it has implemented a grace period for aircraft operators who enter Class A airspace in Canada (above 18,000 feet, IFR only) without the ADS-B equipment that meets the newly activated mandate. The not-for-profit air traffic management company said operators who mistakenly enter Class A without antennas that send signals both up to […]

Korean researchers are developing a humanoid “pibot” that looks like a character from a 1960s science fiction sitcom but unlike most autonomous flight systems, this one can literally fill in for pilots in any aircraft. The team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) say their creation can fly a plane without […]

A Beechcraft 390 Premier I went down on a highway near the township of Elmina in Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia, on Thursday, killing two pilots and all six passengers onboard. Two motorists were also killed when the aircraft struck several vehicles on the road. The identities of the victims have not yet been released. “The […]

GE Aerospace’s GEnx engine family has passed the 50 million flight hour milestone, the company announced last week. Of those hours, nearly 32 million came from the GEnx-1B, which entered service in 2012 and powers the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Powering the Boeing 747-8, the GEnx-2B has logged 18 million hours since entering service in 2011. […]

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is citing a series of poor decisions in the cockpit as the probable cause of the fatal crash of a Bombardier Challenger 605 business jet in 2021. According to the Board’s final report (below), the crew lost control of the aircraft while conducting a circling approach at California’s Truckee-Tahoe […]