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Already active in the unmanned aerial systems field, Honeywell is doubling down on its investment in the category by starting a new business unit “equipped with its own engineering and sales resources” that will act as a “systems integrator” for future products, in particular focusing on software development. Honeywell wants to position itself in the […]

Tulsa-based Spartan College continues to add to its training fleet with new Pipers, the companies announced today. Although saying that Spartan “announced today an order for its first tranche of 22 factory-new training aircraft,” in fact the school has already accepted 10 new Archers and two Seminoles from Piper this year. The remaining 10 Archers, […]

A U.S. Air Force pilot was killed in the crash of an F-15C Eagle on Monday. The aircraft went down in the North Sea at approximately 9:40 a.m. local time while conducting a routine training mission. It was assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing’s 493rd Fighter Squadron, which is based at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, […]

Canadian authorities are still looking for evidence of the apparent crash of a light plane in the middle of a city at 1 p.m. June 6 and they aren’t saying much about the case. At least one person told authorities he or she saw a light plane plunge into the Fraser River that separates the […]

Rusty pilots, lighter-than-normal aircraft and new procedures have combined to create some anxious moments for passengers and crews as the airline industry coped with the coronavirus pandemic, according to Bloomberg. The news agency said the Commercial Aviation Safety Team, made up of representatives from the FAA, unions and airlines, has issued about 50 safety warnings […]

Although the coronavirus pandemic has created an instant surplus of pilots worldwide, it’s also created big gaps in the training pipeline and that has some countries bracing for a pilot shortage in a few years. In Japan, airlines, the government and universities are facing what they see as a looming problem because most pilots for […]

There’s a multitude of good reasons pilots should do a thorough walkaround before every flight and the occupants of an Icon A5 found yet another one earlier this month. The pilot and his passenger had just finished washing the sporty little amphib on the afternoon of June 3 and were taking it out for a […]

The commander of the Navy’s biggest flight school and one of his officers were killed with the single-engine private plane they were in crashed near Selma, Alabama, last week. Capt. Vincent Segars, the CO of the Naval Aviation Schools Command at Naval Air Station Pensacola, and Cmdr. Joshua Fuller, an integration officer for the command’s […]

Increasing chatter on social media about an impromptu fly-in (described in some posts as a protest) at Wittman Field in Oshkosh in late July has prompted the airport authority to issue a notice on what those flying (or driving) to KOSH can expect. EAA says it has also sent a note to members reminding anyone […]

Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate on Thursday that would require all “U.S.-registered turbine-powered rotorcraft certificated for 6 or more passenger seats” to be equipped with terrain awareness and warning systems (TAWS), flight data recorders (FDRs) and cockpit voice recorders (CVRs). The Helicopter Safety Act of 2020 cites the FAA’s […]