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A Ukrainian surveillance drone has apparently won the first drone-on-drone dogfight by essentially allowing a Russian quadcopter to bounce off it. The video, which was released by a Ukrainian poster on Telegram, has now gone viral and it’s unlikely to catch Hollywood’s attention.  The Ukrainian drone is an off-the-shelf Mavic that appears to have been […]

The British government is considering making it illegal for retired RAF pilots to train the pilots of military adversaries after the RAF discovered as many as 30 ex-pilots had signed lucrative contracts to train Chinese pilots. The Times reported a South African intermediary had offered the retired pilots as much as $270,000 to teach People’s […]

In this podcast recorded at the 2022 NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE), Cirrus Aircraft senior vice president for sales and marketing Ben Kowalski talks with AVweb’s Kate O’Connor about how the Vision Jet program has developed since the model earned its FAA type certificate in 2016.

Through its AeroAPI utility, FlightAware expanded the functionality of the query-based flight tracking to offer customers access to historical flight data dating back to Jan. 1, 2011. FlightAware users can already retrieve on-demand real-time flight status updates, flight tracks, future flight schedules and other flight data specific to any airport, airline fleet, flight or tail […]

At this week’s NBAA-BACE business aviation show in Orlando, Florida, the International Aircraft Dealers Association (IADA) released its Third Quarter 2022 Market Report, and the association leadership offered its interpretation of the data during a press briefing. As a trade advocacy group with specified standards for membership, IADA currently includes 52 business aircraft dealers (with […]

In this podcast, AVweb’s Kate O’Connor talks with Eviation President and CEO Gregory Davis about the first flight of the company’s all-electric Alice, along with certification timeline for the aircraft, its purpose and the development of relevant battery technology.

Like most of business aviation, operations are booming for “bizliners” (airliners in bizjet-style configuration). The Boeing Business Jets division briefed the press at the NBAA-BACE event in Orlando, Florida, on Oct. 17, and had lots of good news to report for their corner of the industry. Marketing director Alex Feteau navigated through a series of […]

Blackhawk Aerospace has completed baseline flight testing for its new Pilatus PC-12 engine upgrade program, the company announced at the 2022 NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE). The XP67P Engine+ Upgrade program will replace the PC-12’s stock Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67B engine with a factory-new PT6A-67P, which offers higher internal turbine temperature (ITT) […]

If a new Bombardier Challenger, Learjet or Global-series bizjet is out of the budget, the company is offering the best of the best used models through its certified pre-owned aircraft program. At the NBAA-BACE 2022 convention in Orlando, the company described its structured program, which starts with a meticulous selection and inspection process of pre-owned […]

Alternative-energy aircraft developer Ampaire has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Tamarack Aerospace Group “to develop further aerodynamic upgrades for Ampaire’s family of hybrid electric aircraft.” Plans call for Tamarack to adapt its “Smartwing” active winglet technology to Ampaire’s alternative energy variants of the Cessna 208 Caravan, Twin Otter and Beechcraft King Air aircraft. […]