Aviation News

Women in Aviation International (WAI) is set to host its 9th Annual Girls in Aviation Day (GIAD) on Sept. 23. Designed to introduce girls ages 8 to 18 to aviation and aerospace, GIAD events are put on by WAI chapters and corporate members worldwide. The organization estimates that more than 150 individual events will take […]

The FAA has met its goal to hire 1,500 air traffic controllers in 2023, bringing the number of controllers currently in training to approximately 2,600. The agency set the goal as part of an effort to rebuild its training pipeline following disruptions related to COVID. The FAA noted that, due to the pandemic, it closed […]

Textron has announced that Kriya Shortt will be taking over as the new president and CEO of the company’s eAviation division on Aug. 31, 2023. She succeeds Rob Scholl, who is moving to the role of president and CEO of Textron Specialized Vehicles Inc. Scholl has headed Textron eAviation since the segment was launched in […]

Boeing has found another significant manufacturing flaw in its 737 MAX aircraft and it’s likely to throw a curveball at deliveries of its most popular aircraft. The company says fuselages from its largest contractor, Spirit AeroSystems, have random extra holes drilled in the rear pressurization bulkhead. The Air Current broke the story on Wednesday and […]

The family of CassuTT owner Creighton King has confirmed he died in the crash of his race plane near West Jordan Airport in Utah Wednesday. The tiny single-seat plane went down on a soccer park near the airport that local media say has been used twice for emergency landings in the last year. The aircraft […]

Russian freight company Volga Dnepr has launched an unusual legal fight to reclaim one of its An-124 cargo planes from Canada, and legal experts say it might just work. The aircraft was flown to Toronto from Anchorage loaded with COVID pandemic supplies the night Russia invaded Ukraine. Canada closed its airspace to Russian aircraft and […]

Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has been confirmed as one of the 10 people aboard an Embraer Legacy business jet that crashed in Russia on Aug. 23. The crash appeared unsurvivable and all the bodies were recovered at the scene, according to the BBC. Prigozhin led a failed mutiny against the Russian armed forces in June […]

American Airlines pilots have agreed to a new contract that increases total salary and benefits by a reported $9.6 billion over four years. The Allied Pilots Association (APA) represents some 15,000 American Airlines pilots and announced that the contract won the support of 72.5 percent of the members who voted. The deal calls for an […]

Last week, the FAA issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive (AD) to owners and operators of Bell Model 407 helicopters. (AD) 2023-17-51 stems from a report of a disbonded area in a Bell 407’s tail rotor blade “due to missing adhesive between the upper skin and core.” According to Transport Canada, which has issued its own […]

The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) filed comments this week on a new FAA advisory circular (AC). The so-called “Destroyed and Scrapped Aircraft” AC makes “heavy reference” to the like-named FAA Order 8900.19, which the association said was issued in 2018 without the opportunity for public comment. According to the EAA, the new AC determines that […]