Aviation News

This week, AVweb’s news roundup found reports on an FAA STC for DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft, the launch of an on-demand aviation renters insurance product, a company recording near-record aircraft sales and a new fuel supply agreement. Acorn Welding has received STC approval from the FAA for new exhaust stacks for DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft. […]

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) Foundation has announced that it is on track to hold its annual High School Aviation STEM Symposium on Nov. 16. Now in its sixth year, the symposium is designed to help educators bring aviation-related science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs to their classrooms. Citing continued challenges posed […]

The first ten people from the two-year Bombardier Aerospace Apprenticeship Program (BAAP) have officially graduated, according to a company announcement on Thursday. All graduates of the program receive offers of full-time employment as aircraft assemblers or aerostructures apprentices at Bombardier’s Red Oak, Texas, facility where they will work on the Global 7500 business jet’s advanced […]

A group of six aviation associations asked Congress to increase funding for the Alternative Fuels for General Aviation program for fiscal year 2022 in a letter to the leadership of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies Subcommittee on Tuesday. The program’s focus is […]

Airbus officially launched its new Airbus Scale innovation unit on Wednesday. According to the company, the unit is expected to focus on promoting and identifying “internal corporate innovation opportunities that can be developed into solutions for the external world” as well as partnering with external startups to develop technology and products. It will specifically look […]

King Schools has announced that Sarah Tamar has been awarded this year’s Women in Aviation, International (WAI)/Martha R. King Scholarship for Female Flight Instructors. Tamar, who flies amphibious Cessna Caravans for New York seaplane service Tailwind, currently holds certificates and ratings including private pilot, instrument, seaplane and commercial. Citing experiences with her own flight instructors […]

According to an announcement at a public meeting on Nov. 2, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined that “incorrectly wired anti-skid sensors” compromised the braking system of a PenAir Saab SA-2000, and was a significant factor in the Oct. 17, 2019, fatal runway overrun accident in Unalaska, Alaska. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said, […]

The National Transportation Board (NTSB) announced on Tuesday (Nov. 2) that an insurance-funded recovery operation has successfully retrieved both flight recorders, all major components of the first-generation Boeing 737-200 freighter operated as TransAir Flight 810 and its cargo. The NTSB has shared in the recovery effort, with a team of investigators on board the salvage […]

Bell Textron has announced an agreement under which engineering firm Arrow Aviation will market Helifab’s Emergency Medical Kits for the Bell 505 light single. Arrow simultaneously announced it signed a purchase agreement for its fourth Bell 505. In collocated facilities in Broussard, Louisiana, Helifab and Arrow work together to develop new Supplemental Type Certificates (STCs) […]

Since 1990, the FAA Military Airport Program (MAP) has provided $754 million in federal funds through the Airport Improvement Program (AIP) to help support some 35 current or former military air bases in either joint-use military/civilian or full-civilian operations. As many as 15 airports at a time, including up to three general aviation facilities, can […]