Aviation News

More than one hundred pages of internal Boeing communications related to the design and certification of the grounded 737 MAX and including discussions about deceiving regulators, avoiding simulator training requirements and the aircraft’s poor design were released to the public on Thursday. According to Boeing, the communications were turned over to the FAA in December […]

U.S. Air Force test pilot, aviation writer and historian Col. Walter J. Boyne passed away on Thursday at the age of 90. Boyne joined the Air Force in 1951 and served as a nuclear test pilot with the 4925th Nuclear Test Group. Over the course of his military career, he flew aircraft including the B-47, […]

Intelligence and government officials from several countries said Thursday that Iran was responsible for the Wednesday shoot-down of a Ukrainian airliner departing from Tehran on a flight to Kyiv. News agencies reported that U.S. satellites detected the firing of the Russian-made SA-15 Gauntlet missile system and intercepted Iranian communications confirmed the missile launch, which may […]

Airbus has announced that it will increase the production rate for its A320 family from four to seven aircraft per month at the company’s Mobile, Alabama, manufacturing facility by the beginning of 2021. To support both the production increase along and continued recruiting efforts for the A220 manufacturing team, Airbus says it will be adding […]

Ukrainian investigators said Wednesday that they were considering an antiaircraft missile attack or terrorist action as the cause of Tuesday night’s crash of a Ukraine International Airlines flight near Tehran. The Boeing 737-800 was enroute from Tehran to Kyiv when it crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 176 people aboard. Some 45 Ukrainian investigators arrived […]

Texas Aircraft Manufacturing announced that it has delivered its first Colt-SL S-LSA. The aircraft went to University of Florida nuclear engineering student Richard Youschak of Gainesville, Florida, and featured a University of Florida “Gator”-inspired orange and blue paint scheme. Texas Aircraft introduced the Colt at AirVenture 2019. “I cannot express how happy and proud I […]

Garmin introduced its new GTN 650Xi and GTN 750Xi all-in-one touchscreen navigators on Wednesday. The GTN 650Xi and 750Xi are Garmin’s fourth-generation GPS/Nav/Comms and feature faster map rendering and smoother panning than their predecessors along with an ultra-high-resolution display and wide viewing angle. They were designed as slide-in upgrades to the previous generation GTN 650 […]

All 167 passengers and nine crew members onboard Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 were killed when the Boeing 737-800 NG crashed near the Iranian capital of Tehran on Wednesday morning. The accident occurred just after the aircraft departed from Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKA) for Boryspil International Airport (KBP) in Kyiv, Ukraine, at approximately 6:10 […]

Garmin today rolled out features for certified versions of its G3X Touch and G5 electronic instruments that have been live in the experimental world for some time. In addition, Garmin has new approved display configurations for the large-scale G3X Touch screen for production aircraft.  The first new feature is wireless engine-data streaming when the system […]

The U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration’s Office of Apprenticeship has approved an avionics technician apprenticeship program created by the Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA). AEA’s program provides a competency-based occupational framework (CBOF) and covers “job titles and occupational pathways, related functions and performance criteria, as well as academic, workplace and personal competencies.” The […]