Aviation News

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 […]

Robinson Helicopter has delivered its 1000th R66 turbine helicopter, less than a decade after it was certified. An outgrowth of the piston-powered, four-seat R44, the R66 uses the Rolls-Royce RR300 turbine and Robinson’s trademark two-blade teetering rotor system. The RR300 is itself a derivative of the Allison 250 turbine, an engine that Robinson says has […]

Wisconsin-based aviation engine developer Engineered Propulsion Systems (EPS) has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. According to a petition submitted to the Western District of Wisconsin bankruptcy court on July 29, “there are currently no investors willing to continue to support the ongoing operations of the Company outside of a restructuring process” and it is “at […]

International organization of women pilots The Ninety-Nines has named Corbi Bulluck its new president. She succeeds Jan McKenzie, who served as president of the organization from 2016 to 2020. Bulluck flew for the North Carolina Department of Transportation for 20 years before her retirement in 2018. She also served as a flight instructor at FlightSafety […]

Emirates is taking its A380s out of mothballs and is offering prospective passengers COVID-19 insurance to help fill them and its other aircraft. The super jumbos were all parked for four months but the company started flying them on July 15 and now has six long-haul routes using the double-decker aircraft. Filling the 500 seats […]

An independent survey of FAA safety division employees suggests they feel pressure to accommodate industry demands at the expense of safety. The Mitre Corporation survey was sent to 7,000 employees in the aviation safety group and 25 percent responded. Those who took the time painted a picture of a regulatory agency influenced by the financial […]

A little cross-border cooperation allowed a Seattle dad who’s been separated from his four-year-old son just across the border in White Rock, British Columbia, to come within 1,000 feet of his boy on Friday, much to the surprise of others in the Vancouver suburb. Air Force Reserves Lt. Col T.K. Minzak flew an Air Force […]

The line between a crash and a hard landing can be pretty thin and there’s an Atlas Air Boeing 747-400 on the ramp at Shanghai Pudong Airport with runway rash (at least) on three cowlings that might define that. According to the Aviation Herald, the aircraft was flying for DHL from Seoul to Shanghai and […]

Business Insider has had an expert crunch the numbers and says airline passengers are willing to pay extra to ride socially distanced. Airlines that continue to block middle seats are not only winning customer loyalty, they might be making more money. The publication reviewed financial data from the Big Three airlines (Delta, American, United) and […]

At least 18 people, including four children, were killed and 123 injured when a Boeing 737-800 operated by Air India Express skidded off the runway while attempting to land at India’s Kozhikode International Airport (CCJ) on Friday. According to authorities, the aircraft slid down a 35-foot slope and broke into two pieces after overshooting the […]