Aviation News

A team of scientists at Oxford University has made jet fuel from carbon dioxide in the lab and there is some optimism that it could be commercialized. A report in Nature Communications said the team essentially reverse engineered the chemical reactions that turn fossil fuels into CO2, which is considered the most important greenhouse gas. […]

GA is being harnessed to help distribute COVID-19 vaccines in South Carolina as Angel Flight Soars is shifting focus to help end the pandemic. Pilot Robby Hill, of Florence, told WBTW that he’s flown a vaccine mission and has more planned for the coming weeks. “I was able to go Fayetteville, NC, and pick up […]

France’s civil aviation investigations organization, the BEA, issued a report (French only) last Thursday saying a Twin Otter was a little low when it knocked the camera out of the hands of a photographer while landing at the Saint Barthélemy (St. Barts) Airport in January of 2014. St. Barts is a French island in the […]

The FAA is proposing a total of $182,000 in fines to an unlicensed drone pilot who was warned three times to stop making illegal flights around Philadelphia. After a warning letter was sent in October of 2019, the FAA contacted him twice more in November of 2019 to explain the ways in which he was […]

Colombian officials politely asked people to refrain from flying balloons, possibly packed with explosives, near airports just before a bizarre collision at Bogota Airport. A Bianca Airlines A319 had just touched down on a flight from Orlando on New Year’s Eve when it became entangled with yards of streamers and plastic from what authorities described […]

The number of civil aviation pilots in China reached 68,274 last year, maintaining the 10 percent growth rate seen in the country over the last four years. According to data gathered by Asian Sky Group (ASG), 51 percent of those pilots hold a commercial pilot license while an additional 41 percent hold an airline transport […]

The FAA has established the new Airport Coronavirus Response Grant Program to distribute $2 billion in funds designated to provide economic relief for airports impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. According to the agency, grants will be offered to eligible U.S. airports to “prevent, prepare for, and respond to” COVID-19. The funds are part of […]

Nav Canada has announced that Raymond G. Bohn has been appointed president and CEO of the company, which provides air traffic control, airport advisory services, weather briefings and aeronautical information services for Canadian domestic and international airspace. Bohn, who joined Nav Canada in 2000 and is currently serving as the company’s vice president and chief […]

Lockheed Martin announced on Monday that it has delivered its 123rd F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft this year. The aircraft, an F-35A, was built at the company’s Final Assembly and Checkout (FACO) facility in Cameri, Italy, and delivered to the Italian air force last week. According to Lockheed Martin, 74 F-35s went to the U.S. […]

Diamond Aircraft announced last week that its Austrian headquarters in Wiener Neustadt has built its 500th DA40 NG piston single. The four-seat DA40 NG is powered by the Austro AE300 engine and comes equipped with the Garmin G1000 NXi flight deck. It has a top speed of 154 knots, range of 940 NM and useful […]