Aviation News

Total avionics sales for the first quarter (Q1) of 2023 rose 22.6 percent compared to the same time period last year, coming in at over $777 million according to the recently released Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) Q1 2023 Avionics Market Report. AEA noted that the increase was driven by a 32.1 percent rise in forward-fit […]

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has announced that it will open seat reservations on June 2, 2023, for its first planned commercial electric flights. The airline is expecting the flights to take place in 2028 with one domestic route apiece in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. The cost for a ticket is SEK 1,946 ($180), a number SAS […]

A Navy MH-60S Knight Hawk successfully rescued the pilot of an F-5N Tiger II about 25 miles off the coast of Key West Naval Air Station on Wednesday morning. The pilot ejected from the Cold War-era fighter about 9:20 a.m. The helicopter was dispatched and located the pilot, who was taken to a hospital in […]

Air New Zealand is asking passengers to voluntarily weigh in before boarding so it can better understand the load their planes are carrying. The company wants the data to better plan fuel loads and routing to make their operation more efficient and it won’t be making a public spectacle of those who take part. “We […]

If they’re out there, there’s “absolutely no convincing evidence” that we’ve seen them, but that doesn’t mean the search for “unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)” formerly known as UFOs should stop, according to a NASA committee struck last year. “In fact, if I were to summarize in one line what I feel we’ve learned is we […]

Reuters is reporting that FAA Acting Administrator Billy Nolen will join eVTOL startup Archer Aviation in the next few weeks. Nolen, who’s been the interim leader of the agency for more than a year after Steve Dickson quit in March of 2022, announced his departure last month. Reuters cited unnamed sources and neither Archer nor […]

Delta Air Lines is facing a California lawsuit over its $1 billion claim of carbon neutrality. Plaintiffs maintain that the carbon “offsets” Delta pays for don’t do enough to mitigate global warming, and the airline is unfairly profiting from its claims. In 2020, Delta announced it would invest $1 billion to achieve carbon neutral status […]

Earlier this month, Garmin announced it had received an FAA Supplemental Type Certificate for installing its GFC 600 digital autopilot in the Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain cabin-class piston twin. Concurrently, Garmin announced that its Smart Rudder Bias technology is certified for installation on PA-31-350 Navajos when equipped with the GFC 600 autopilot. In addition to […]

Business aviation consultant Brian Foley released a statement today (May 30) analyzing a recent report in the Financial Times (FT) calling attention to similarities between beleaguered charter provider Wheels Up and Malta-headquartered VistaJet. Both follow the owned-aircraft business model and according to the FT, both are suffering financial woes, with VistaJet’s ledger sheet cited as […]

Nearly four decades ago, a young Mike Kellner, inspired by the television series 12 O’clock High, ponied up a bit more than seven grand to a Maine junkyard for a B-17E. Or, more accurately, the sawed-off pieces of one. “It was a scrapped airplane,” he told the local Chicago suburban Daily Herald newspaper. “So, it […]