Aviation News

Stratolaunch has conducted the first separation release test using its TA-0 Talon-A test vehicle and Roc carrier aircraft. The flight launched from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base and lasted for 4 hours and 8 minutes. According to the company, the test demonstrated that the Talon-A launch system “can cleanly and safely separate hypersonic vehicles from […]

Pilatus handed over its 2,000th PC-12 single-engine turboprop during ceremony at the company’s headquarters in Stans, Switzerland, last week. The aircraft went to New Hampshire-based fractional aircraft ownership company PlaneSense, which operates a fleet of 43 PC-12s and eleven PC-24s. The first PC-12 was delivered in 1994. “We are honoured to receive the 2,000th PC-12,” […]

Honeywell announced on Friday that it has successfully completed the first flight to be fully managed by its Anthem integrated flight deck. The company has been flight testing hybrid versions of the system for over a year, logging more than 120 hours of time in the air. The first flight with the fully equipped Anthem […]

The Russian air force had one of its worst days of the war with Ukraine and lost four aircraft but it’s not clear who shot them down. An Su-35, Su-34 and two Mi-8 helicopters were destroyed within minutes of one another in the same general area of Russian territory bordering northeastern Ukraine. They were apparently […]

Cathay Pacific has sent a memo to pilots warning them to keep their speed up while taxiing or face unspecified action from management. According to the memo, obtained by the South China Morning Post, the Hong Kong Airport Authority complained to the airline that the pokey pilots were causing delays and congestion at the busy […]

Southwest Airlines Pilots Association members have given their union a virtually unanimous strike mandate as negotiations with the airline grow increasingly tense. A total of 99 percent of 98 percent of the union’s approximately 10,000 members voted to authorize a strike if it’s permitted by the National Mediation Board. There’s a lot of legal ground […]

Turkish Airlines is reportedly planning to buy up to 600 aircraft in the coming year and its chairman said Boeing will get a chunk of that order. “During the [International Air Transport Association (IATA) AGM [to be held between June 4-6, 2023, in Istanbul] we are going to announce orders. With one of the big […]

Blade Air Mobility, self-described as “a technology-powered air mobility platform,” announced its first quarter 2023 financial results today (May 11). The company cited year-over-year revenue increases of 70 percent over Q1 of 2022; short-distance revenue up 148 percent for the quarter; organ-transplant revenue up 111 percent year-over-year (and up 24 percent “sequentially” over Q4 of […]

Mercy Flights, a Medford, Oregon-based civil air ambulance company, is the newest member of the Air Charter Safety Foundation (ACSF). The nonprofit ACSF now includes more than 310 aviation-centric businesses, including charter and fractional operators. Mercy Flight will now participate in the ACSF’s third-party facilitation of the FAA’s voluntary Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP). The […]

The U.S. Coast Guard announced today (May 11) it has suspended the search for the three occupants of a Learjet 36A that crashed into the Pacific Ocean yesterday off the coast of San Clemente Island. The as-yet-unidentified victims are presumed dead. The Learjet, N56PA, was operated by Phoenix Air on contract to the U.S. Navy. […]