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FAA Proposes Pulling Certificate After 737 Ditching

The FAA wants to revoke the air carrier certificate of the company that owned a Boeing 737-200 that ditched off Honolulu last year. The FAA naturally had a good look at Rhoades Aviation’s operation after the dual flameout that preceded the ditching last July 2. The agency claims to have found hundreds of illegal flights […]

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Starliner Completes Test Mission With Soft Landing

Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule parachuted safely to Earth at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on Wednesday afternoon, capping a mostly successful uncrewed test trip to the International Space Station. The capsule was back on the ground less than four hours after it detached from the ISS and carried garbage from the station […]

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Bombardier Studying Blended Wing Business Jets

Bombardier revealed earlier this week it’s been studying the use of a blended wing design for future business jets. At EBACE in Geneva the company said it’s been testing a small-scale model of what its next aircraft might look like. The model, dubbed EcoJet, has been used in wind tunnel and flight tests as a […]

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USAF C-17 Flies Emergency Infant Formula From Germany To Indiana

A U.S. Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster III landed at Indianapolis International airport in Indiana on May 22 loaded with a 78,000 pounds of infant formula from Switzerland, enough for half a million baby bottles, said the Air Force. The formula was transported from Zurich to Ramstein Air Base in Germany on trucks, then loaded […]

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Overall Avionics Sales Increase for Seventh Consecutive Quarter

The Aircraft Electronics Association announced today (May 24) that overall sales for the first quarter of 2022 were up 4.8 percent over the fourth quarter of 2021, marking gains for the seventh consecutive quarter. With total sales of more than $634 million between New Year’s Day and the end of March, avionics revenues were also […]

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EBACE 2022: Textron Heeds Its European Customers With Three Announcements

Textron Aviation made two glass-clinking announcements today (May 24) at the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, Switzerland—and a third with more lunch-pail appeal. The U.S. manufacturer revealed that Luxaviation Group—one of the largest private aircraft operators in the world—will be the first European customer for the Cessna Citation M2 Gen2 light […]

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Top Gun: Maverick’ Finally Arrives Friday, But Until Then…

The long-awaited release of Tom Cruise’s “Top Gun: Maverick” will finally arrive in theaters on Friday (May 27), and the aviation world is champing at the bit. As a sidebar teaser to the release, Cruise teamed up with Late Late Show host James Corden for a legitimately funny and very well-filmed 15-minute video that opens […]

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EBACE 2022: ForeFlight Penetrates Deeper Into Business Aviation

Proving that ForeFlight is as accepted for business aviation applications as it is in the general aviation market, ForeFlight’s parent company Boeing announced at EBACE 2022 that it has inked deals with three major European operators who will toss their current flight planning systems and transition to ForeFlight’s Dispatch integrated flight planning and EFB solutions. […]

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AVweb Classifieds: A Tool For Talent Spotters

SPONSORED CONTENT — For Phoenix corporate charter start up MJets, staffing means more than finding pilots who have checked all the boxes. “Sure, we’ll hire captains who have gone through all the wickets,” says MJets founder Ernie Meeks. “But after that, we hire on personality. They’ll have the right pedigree, but can they adapt, anticipate, […]

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