Aviation News

Bell Textron officially opened the doors to its new Bell Commercial Business Center (CBC) in Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuesday. Approximately 600 Bell employees will work at the facility, which will house operations including Bell’s commercial programs, global sales and customer support and services. The Bell CBC is located in a former American Airlines building […]

Airbus Helicopters announced on Monday that its new five-bladed H145 helicopter has received its FAA type certification. The newest version of the twin-engine H145 has also been approved for single-pilot IFR and single-engine operations, as well as night vision goggle compatibility. U.S. deliveries are expected to begin in early 2021. “The FAA certification is an […]

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University continues to grow and with it comes demand for new aircraft for training. According to the school, it has added some 17 new aircraft since March 2020, and has placed orders for 19 additional Cessna Skyhawks with Garmin’s G1000 NXI avionics, which would, with the normal turnover of aircraft, make ERAU’s entire […]

The average wasp’s interaction with an airplane almost always ends up as an annoying smear but there is a species that can actually bring down even the largest plane, hypothetically at least. According to ABC News, Australian authorities are studying methods of preventing the so-called keyhole wasp from setting up housekeeping in pitot tubes. It […]

The FAA’s Piper PA-28 and PA-32 wing spar inspection AD takes effect Dec. 28 and it involves 11,476 aircraft. The FAA issued the notice on Nov. 23 and requires operators of the affected aircraft to have a look at the hard-to-reach section of spar within 100 hours or 12 months of that date. Extensive input […]

SpaceX plans to launch the eighth version of its Starship interplanetary rocket SN8 to about 50,000 feet with an ambitious test schedule that CEO Elon Musk wouldn’t take odds on its success. The silo-like stainless steel cylinder, which looks a little more spaceship-like with its nose cone attached for the first time, is hoped to […]

The National Championship Air Races is more than a quarter of the way to raising the initial $500,000 of $1 million it needs to stage the 2021 races in Reno. The group sent out an appeal in early November for donations to start making up the funding shortfall that resulted from the cancellation of this […]

Foreign-registered aircraft flying to Canada after Nov. 25, 2021, will have to have either an ELT capable of broadcasting simultaneous 406 and 121.5 MHz emergency signals or have a portable 406 beacon on board as part of the country’s new ELT rules. Transport Canada published notice in the Canada Gazette, the equivalent of the U.S. […]

Urban air mobility (UAM) company EHang announced this week that its EHang 216 autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) has completed its first flight tour of South Korea. The tour included flights in Seoul, Daegu and Jeju Island, with each stop designed to demonstrate a different use case for the vehicle. The Seoul flight focused on autonomous […]

Following the cancelation or virtualization of many aviation events in 2020 due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Helicopter Association International (HAI) is making plans to hold its 2021 HAI HELI-EXPO in person. For the event, the organization will be implementing health and safety protocols designed to combat the spread of COVID-19 including social distancing […]