Aviation News

The Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission meets Wednesday (Aug. 9) to evaluate what would be a record amount of proposed educational grants. Totaling more than $505,000, the funds would go to up to 72 educational organizations “to bring more students in Oklahoma to STEM [science, technology, engineering, and math] careers, particularly those in aerospace and aviation,” according […]

Textron Aviation announced today (Aug. 8) it has received type certification for its SkyCourier twin turboprop utility aircraft from the National Civil Aviation Authority of Brazil (ANAC). Textron expects the versatile Pratt & Whitney PT6A-65SC-powered twin to find a healthy market in the South American country, which presents “diverse geography, remote locations and growing demand […]

Sometimes, a simple panel upgrade can take on a life of its own. Eric Tierno has “a small stake” in a New Hampshire family-owned Grumman Tiger that needed upgraded avionics, but the project … well, expanded. “It started as some simple IFR upgrades,” he said. “Then the AOPA [2022 sweepstakes giveaway] Tiger provided some inspiration, […]

Canadian operators of Piper Aircraft M600 single-engine turboprops are now cleared for the Garmin Autoland system. Piper announced Aug. 3 it has been awarded approval from Transport Canada’s Civil Aviation (TCAA) authorities for the M600/SLS HALO safety system, which includes Garmin Autoland and standalone autothrottle. According to Piper, “If necessary, HALO takes over the controls […]

Boeing’s Starliner program has been dealt another delay. The first manned flight of the “astronaut taxi” was previously scheduled for July 21 but by early June was delayed “indefinitely” as the company found new issues with the Starliner’s wiring and parachute system. While NASA officials were hopeful that the launch could be rescheduled for this […]

Shortly after AirVenture this year, kit-maker Bearhawk Aircraft announced that the newly certified DeltaHawk DHK180 will be an option for its Bearhawk 4-Place kit aircraft, which is typically powered by either a four-cylinder, 180-HP or six-cylinder, 250-HP Lycoming gas engine. For now, development of the firewall-forward package is being handled by DeltaHawk in Racine, Wisconsin, […]

With airlines ever under the gun to reduce carbon emissions, they’re sponsoring ever more ambitious demonstrations of sustainable aviation fuel. The latest comes from Virgin Atlantic and Rolls-Royce, who have announced a plan to fly a trans-Atlantic flight on 100 percent SAF in November 2023. Air bp and Virent, a biofuel subsidiary of Marathon Petroleum, […]

Three crew were killed Sunday night in a midair collision between two Cal Fire helicopters fighting a blaze near Riverside, according to a Cal Fire spokesman. All three—a pilot and two firefighters—were in a Bell 407 being used as a command and observation aircraft. The second helo, a Sikorsky S-64E Skycrane with two aboard, landed […]

The Air Force has put artificial intelligence that was trained by machine learning in the pilot seat of a drone and said it did just fine. A government news release said the three-hour flight of the high-performance jet XQ-58A Valkyrie happened July 25 at the Eglin Test and Training Complex and was the culmination of […]

The first eight Ukraine air force pilots to train on F-16s have been chosen and it appears English fluency is a requirement. The first eight are all fluent and another 20 with some English are heading to England this month to brush up on the language. The eight English speakers are waiting for a formal […]