Aviation News

Gulfstream held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of its new maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility last Friday. The facility, called the Gulfstream East Campus, is located at the company’s headquarters in Savannah, Georgia, on the east side of Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport (SAV). According to Gulfstream, it undertook the project in order […]

Although trying to entice more women into aviation seems like a fairly recent thing, the Ninety-Nines, founded by Amelia Earhart in 1929, have been doing it for 90 years and they’re not done yet. Ninety-Nines International President Jan McKenzie spoke with AVweb’s Russ Niles.

AOPA has written the FAA urging it to hold off on mandating an expensive fix for older Pipers that pilots say is a nonexistent problem. As we reported earlier, the FAA issued a notice a few weeks ago that it was considering issuing an airworthiness directive requiring operators of older Cherokees to replace the fuel […]

John Travolta’s Boeing 707 is the gift that keeps on taking and he likely won’t be making a farewell trip to Australia in the plane this November. Travolta, who has owned the aircraft since 1998, has donated it to Historical Aircraft Restoration Society in Albion Park, about 100 miles south of Sydney. The plan was […]

uAvionix has begun shipping tailBeacon ADS-B Out units after receiving STC approval for the device. The company announced the approval on Friday and said it has been building and stockpiling tailBeacons since receiving TSO approval on the four essential elements of the device just before AirVenture. The $2,000 units are available directly from uAvionix and […]

For the want of an appropriately sized paper coffee cup and lid (sorry, Ben), likely tens of thousands of dollars and at least one day at the beach were lost by those affected by a mid-Atlantic diversion of Condor A330 earlier this year. The inconvenient chain of events damaged the airplane and disrupted the travel […]

Embraer delivered the first of its new E195-E2 passenger jets to aircraft leasing company AerCap and Brazilian airline Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras on Thursday. The aircraft was handed over in a ceremony at Embraer’s facility in São José dos Campos, Brazil. Azul has an order for 50 additional E195-E2s with deliveries of the next five […]

Lufthansa is no longer selling the last row of seats on its Airbus A320neo fleet. According to reports, a company memo cited a recent airworthiness directive (AD) issued by EASA as its reasoning for the change. The AD, which implements temporary revisions to the A320neo flight manual to limit the aircraft’s center of gravity envelope, […]

The hardware for NASA’s Artemis 1 lunar mission is beginning to come together. According to NASA, the engine section of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is now assembled and ready to be joined to the rest of the SLS core stage. As shown in the video below, the engine section serves as the attachment […]

Boeing is still looking to return the 737 MAX to service by the end of the year, according to statements made by Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg at an investment conference in Laguna Niguel, California, on Wednesday. The aircraft was grounded last March in the wake of the crashes of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March […]