Aviation News

A Senate Appropriations Subcommittee questioned FAA officials about the agency’s oversight of the certification of the Boeing 737 MAX and its responses to the fatal crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 in October 2018 and Ethiopians Airlines Flight 302 last March during a hearing on Wednesday. Citing articles recently published by The New York Times […]

The U.S. Navy has confirmed that the pilot of an F/A-18E Super Hornet was killed when the aircraft crashed in California’s Death Valley National Park at approximately 9:50 a.m. local time on Wednesday. Seven park visitors reportedly sustained minor injuries as a result of the accident. The pilot has been identified as Lt. Charles Z. […]

Honda Aircraft Company held a ceremony to break ground for the company’s new wing production facility in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Tuesday. According to Honda, the facility “will allow for more HondaJet Elite wings to be assembled concurrently” and add additional storage for HondaJet service parts. Construction is expected to be completed by July 2020. […]

The EAA’s list of show winners is almost as long as the show and just as varied. More than 70 aircraft received awards across several categories, but all of them are about the quality of construction. Paul Dye, editor at large of AVweb’s sister publication KITPLANES, took home a plaque for outstanding workmanship in his […]

Aeromarine’s Electrolite Part 103-compliant ultralight combines electric propulsion and full fly-by-wire to provide a remote piloting capability intended to make flight instruction possible. Conceived by Chip Erwin, the Electrolite features a 25-HP electric motor, twin strut-mounted batteries and the capability of turning control of the aircraft over to an instructor on the ground. It’s based […]

Formerly the Deputy Director of the Office of Aviation Safety and the acting director, Dana Schulze has officially been named to the top post as Director, according to the NTSB. Part of the board since 2002, Schulze began her career with the NTSB as an Aircraft System Safety Engineer. Schulze “served as a group chairman […]

The 50th anniversary of the show they call AirVenture held in Oshkosh closed out last week and the EAA has released attendance figures: approximately 642,000, a claimed 6.8-percent bump from 2018. Residents of Oshkosh got in free opening day; more than 8700 of them attended.  EAA CEO and Chairman Jack Pelton said, “What I’m most […]

The Department of Homeland Security is said to be preparing a “security alert” insisting that small-aircraft systems could be hacked easily. According to an Associated Press report, the DHS is concerned that physical access to aircraft could allow hackers to install hardware to spoof sensor readings that in turn could provide erroneous system or attitude […]

An experienced instructor and an eager teenaged student have been identified as those killed in a Friday collision between their glider and its towplane in western Canada. Allan Wood, 68, and Adam Leinweber died after their Schleicher ASK 21 collided with the Cessna 182 tow plane owned by the Cu Nim Soaring Club near Calgary, […]

The next generation of autoland systems may not require any ILS signals to guide them. Scientists at the Technical University of Munich have equipped a Diamond DA42 with a system called C2Land that allows the aircraft to visually acquire the runway and then calculate a glideslope to put it on the numbers. Because the computer […]