Aviation News

California-based electric transportation solutions company Kitty Hawk Corporation announced on Wednesday that it is retiring its Flyer ultralight electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle. According to Kitty Hawk, a total of 111 Flyers were built and more than 25,000 Flyer flights were conducted. The company says it plans to focus its attention on its […]

Aviation and marine self-serve fueling solutions company QT Petroleum on Demand (QTpod) announced on Wednesday that it has restored service to its M4000 fueling terminals, which have been down since the evening of Friday, May 29. The company cited an unspecified issue related to an IT system that supports its M4000 terminals as the source […]

Boeing announced on Wednesday that it has delivered the first Super Hornet test aircraft for the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels flight demonstration team. The aircraft—one of eleven ordered by the Navy—will go through a flight test and evaluation phase at Maryland’s Naval Air Station Patuxent River before being painted with the team’s trademark blue and […]

Worldwide business and general aviation avionics sales brought in more than $660 million in the first quarter (Q1) of 2020, according to the Avionics Market Report recently released by the Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA). This marks a decreased of 8.8 percent from the first three months of last year. AEA noted that the drop follows […]

Southwest Airlines, in an effort to prevent layoffs or extended furloughs, is offering “the most generous buyout package in our history” to reduce staffing by about 30 percent, according to reports. Southwest, like many airlines, accepted CARES funding to remain afloat during the COVID-19 epidemic, but that support is due to expire at the end […]

Delta’s last MD-88 and MD-90 aircraft have completed their final passenger-carrying flights before heading into retirement at the aircraft boneyard in Blytheville, Arkansas. The airline’s last MD-90 arrived in Atlanta from Houston a little before 9 a.m. local time on Tuesday followed by the last MD-88 arriving from Washington-Dulles at around 10 a.m. Originally scheduled […]

Expressing frustration with the FAA’s reluctance to require data logging on all turbine helicopters, the National Transportation Safety Board has issued a new safety recommendation calling on manufacturers to step in and install the technologies voluntarily. The NTSB has asked for mandatory data recording in turbine helicopters before, with recommendations published in 2013 and 2015. […]

Aviation groups have jointly asked the FAA to extend the terms of the special regulations (SFAR) that provided extensions for medicals and flight currency, among other things. SFAR 118 went into effect on April 30 and extended certain medicals due to expire between the end of March and the end of May until June 30. […]

After an unstable approach that resulted in an over-the-fence speed of more than 200 knots, the crew of a Pakistani Airlines International A320 with 99 people aboard skipped the airliner down the runway three times on the engine nacelles before getting it airborne, according to the Straits Times. All but two of those on board […]

After a 16-year history with more twists and turns than a Robert Ludlum novel, Epic Aircraft has delivered two certified E1000 high-performance single turboprops and plans to fill its order book as soon as possible. The Bend, Oregon, company, which occupies the former Columbia/Cessna facilities at the airport there, has orders from all over the […]