Aviation News

A Canadian aviation company that owns the country’s largest regional airline contractor is reporting a profit for the second quarter even though 91 percent of its airline’s schedule evaporated with the COVID-19 travel restrictions. Chorus Aviation, which provides most of Air Canada’s regional feeder schedule, told investors it had an adjusted net income of $21.6 […]

The town of Buena Vista, Colorado, unanimously approved a concept for an unmanned aircraft systems (UAS/drone) flying park on Tuesday. The drone park will be divided into four zones based on activity with areas for basic training, qualification operations, obstacle navigation and racing events. The proposal was put forward by the Central Colorado UAS Club. […]

This week, AVweb’s news roundup uncovered reports on an aviation career symposium, an STC for a glass cockpit update and an FBO offering free COVID-19 testing. Nonprofit organization Pathways to Aviation plans to hold a virtual symposium on Oct. 5-9 focusing on careers in the aerospace industry. The free event, which is geared toward active […]

An Aviat A-1C-200 Husky registered to the manufacturer went down near Grover, Wyoming, on Monday. The pilot reportedly sustained minor injuries after successfully bailing out and deploying his emergency parachute. According to Aviat, which is based in Afton, Wyoming, the aircraft was involved in experimental flight testing. “Aviat Aircraft Inc., is fully cooperating with the […]

The Aircraft Electronics Association’s data shows that worldwide avionics sales, while still topping $1.1 billion, fell by almost a quarter in the first half of 2020. Earlier reports disclosed that sales fell overall by 8.8 percent in the first quarter but picked up substantially worse losses in the second quarter, with a reduction of 37.3 […]

Phillips 66 announced on Wednesday that it plans to reconfigure its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, to produce sustainable diesel, gasoline and jet fuels. The conversion would move the refinery from using crude oil for fuel production to using cooking oil, fats, greases and soybean oils. Phillips 66 estimates the “Rodeo Renewed” project will […]

The National Aeronautic Association (NAA) has awarded the 2019 Robert J. Collier Trophy to the United States Department of the Air Force-Boeing X-37B team. According to the selection committee, the team was chosen for “… developing and employing the world’s only reusable, autonomous spaceplane, which logged more than 2,865 days in orbit across five missions, […]

Piper Aircraft has announced that a second group of ten students has begun training in the company’s aircraft manufacturing apprenticeship program. The program includes a mix of technical classes, hands-on training and shadowing aircraft assembly workers at the company’s headquarters in Vero Beach, Florida. According to Piper, the two-year apprenticeship is “designed to qualify the […]

Continental Aerospace Technologies has announced that its CD-170 engine has been granted type certification by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). The four-cylinder, liquid-cooled CD-170 is the latest edition to the company’s CD-100 engine series, which has collectively logged over 7.1 million flight hours worldwide since its introduction. The CD-170 is capable of operating […]

Textron Aviation is pushing ahead with the Cessna 408 SkyCourier test program with a second example taking flight this week. The first article of Cessna’s clean-sheet utility twin flew in May, but this ship, called P1, is what the company describes as the “first conforming production flight test aircraft.” According to Cessna, this example will […]