Aviation News

Airshow performer and Spitfire pilot Carolyn Grace was killed in a car accident last week at the age of 70, her family confirmed on Wednesday. Grace is believed to have been the first woman to qualify to fly the Spitfire since the pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary in World War II. She was also […]

GE Aerospace has announced plans to develop a new site aimed at advancing inspection repair and overhaul technology for aviation service shops. According to the company, the Services Technology Acceleration Center (STAC) will be “dedicated to developing engine services technologies and work processes.” The facility will also be used as a training center for GE […]

Avionics sales have increased for the ninth consecutive quarter, according to the Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) third-quarter (Q3) 2022 Avionics Market Report. AEA found that Q3 sales rose 4.6 percent from the second quarter of 2022 and 23.2 percent compared to the same time period last year. For the first nine months of the year, […]

The head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) says he believes it will be decades before single-pilot airline operations are allowed. IATA Director General Willie Walsh told a media briefing in Geneva this week that the industry isn’t ready for that kind of change. “I don’t expect to see a move to single-pilot operation, […]

The Mooney M20J that hit a power line tower in Maryland was well below the the approach the pilot was trying to fly, according the NTSB’s preliminary report. Although the report does not determine cause, it does describe a long list of heading and altitude errors on the approach to Montgomery County Airpark, which ultimately […]

The European Commission has approved a scaled-back plan for France to ban airline flights that can be replaced with train trips of 2.5 hours or less. Three popular flights from Paris’s Orly Airport to Nantes, Lyon and Bordeaux will be stopped for three years and the impact assessed after that. Last April the French government […]

After 53 years in production the 1,547th and last Boeing 747 left the assembly building in Everett, Washington, Tuesday evening. The last of its type is a cargo version that will be delivered to Atlas Air in 2023. The aircraft will undergo its shakedown flights in the next few weeks before heading to Portland for […]

World War II triple ace Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson received an honorary promotion to the rank of brigadier general during a ceremony at the Aerospace Museum of California last Friday. Anderson flew 116 combat missions during WWII and is credited with shooting down 16 ¼ enemy aircraft. He joined the U.S. Army in 1942 and […]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded CubCrafters an aircraft fleet modernization contract for the certified CC19 XCub. The exact number of aircraft ordered via the contract, which is listed as having an initial award value of $1 million, was not announced. The XCubs will go the USDA’s Wildlife Services to be used primarily […]

Electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft developer Joby Aviation has partnered with New York’s Aviation High School to “prepare the next generation of aircraft maintenance technicians and aerospace leaders for career opportunities” in electric flight. Joby noted that 100 Aviation High School students have enrolled in its online Private Pilot Ground School course as […]