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Business and general aviation avionics sales brought in more than $2.8 billion in 2022, an increase of 21.5 percent compared to 2021’s $2.3 billion. According to the recently released Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) 2022 year-end Avionics Market Report, 48.2 percent of avionics sales for the year came from the retrofit market and 51.8 percent from […]

CNN is reporting the Allied Pilots Association says three American Airlines pilots will comply with an NTSB subpoena to testify in the board’s investigation of a runway incursion at JFK Airport on Jan. 13. The pilots were on a Boeing 777 that crossed a runway in front of a departing Delta 737. They initially refused […]

The FAA is requiring the establishment of safety management systems (SMS) at 265 of the country’s biggest and busiest airports with a final rule that will be effective 60 days from its publication in the Federal Register. The airports will have up to five years to complete their SMS. “The safe operation of our nation’s […]

Nepalese authorities say an instructor pilot on the Yeti Airlines ATR72 that crashed in Pokhara in January may have inadvertently feathered both props while trying to lower the flaps. The plane crashed while on final for the new airport in the Nepalese resort town and was a familiarization flight for the other pilot. A translation […]

The Air Force has awarded a contract to Silicon Valley firm Reliable Robotics to study the feasibility of flying its biggest iron autonomously. The company will look at whether it makes sense to fly multi-engine jet cargo planes from gate to gate with a remote pilot monitoring from the ground. For each end of the […]

No one’s pointing any fingers just yet, but an Illinois hobbyist balloon club says one of its missing inflatables was in the same area that an F-22 downed an unidentified object over the central Yukon last week. According to a report in Aviation Week, the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade’s pico balloon’s last reported position […]

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released a new tool designed to help users better visualize information on recent general aviation accident investigations. Called the General Aviation Accident Dashboard, the online tool offers statistical summaries, investigative findings and safety recommendations for GA accidents. The dashboard covers accidents taking place between 2012 and 2021. “The […]

Gulfstream Aerospace has handed over its 100th G600 business jet, which was outfitted at the company’s Dallas, Texas, completions center and delivered to an undisclosed North America-based customer on Wednesday. After receiving its FAA type and production certificates in July 2019, the model entered service the following August. Gulfstream handed over its 50th G600 in […]

Just a few days after the successful EAA Homebuilders Week, which featured several interesting webinars that included an update on the Van’s RV-15, Sonex Aircraft hosted a 90-minute webinar to discuss developments with its own high-wing design. (An archive of the webinar can be found here.) In Sonex’s materials, the airplane is referred to as both the Sonex Highwing […]

Separatist rebels in Papua have released photos of an apparently healthy pilot they took hostage a week ago. Philip Mehrtens, a New Zealander, landed his Susi Air charter flight at Paro Airport in a fractious area of the Indonesian territory on Feb. 7. He was seized at gunpoint by members of the West Papual National […]