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Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation announced plans to establish a center in Montreal, Canada, last week. The company, which also opened U.S. headquarters in Renton, Washington, in May, says the move will help it “prepare for the next phase of its global growth” as it looks toward beginning deliveries of the first of its new SpaceJet family […]

With a looming pilot shortage and few dedicated single-engine trainers on the market, Cirrus has stepped up with a “purpose-built” version of the SR20 called TRAC. It includes features aimed at the training market including a “landing gear simulator.” Cirrus says the TRAC is “thoughtfully crafted with reliability, durability and economy in mind to meet […]

The cancellations caused by the collapse of Thomas Cook Airlines and its parent company, U.K.-based Thomas Cook Group, on Monday have reportedly stranded more than 150,000 customers abroad. According to the U.K. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), the failure of the 178-year-old tourism company, which ceased trading and filed for bankruptcy on Monday morning, has necessitated […]

Textron Aviation announced today that the Cessna Citation Longitude “super-midsize” jet has received its FAA type certificate. In a probably excusable bit of hyperbole, Textron Aviation’s President and CEO Ron Draper proclaimed that “the Longitude revolution starts now.” The Longitude received its provisional TC in late 2018. According to Cessna, the Longitude test fleet amassed […]

At 96, Gen. Chuck Yeager is still ready for a fight and he’s taken on the second biggest aerospace company in the world. Yeager is suing Airbus for allegedly using his name and photo to promote a new helicopter design without paying him. The trademark infringement suit filed last week describes him as “one of […]

Air superiority will be a mainly defensive exercise as the Air Force makes plans for the next generation of fighters. While fifth-generation fighters are just getting comfortable in their roles, the crystal ballers at the Pentagon have started setting the standards for the sixth-generation aircraft that will make them obsolete. “It has to be able […]

Coming soon, a “humble” FAA? New Administrator Steve Dickson used a word not often associated with the agency when talking to air traffic controllers about the agency’s role in the historic grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX and the two catastrophic crashes that precipitated it. “We can always improve, we can always get better,” Dickson […]

A major avionics shop says about 5,000 business aircraft will miss the Jan. 1 deadline to be equipped with ADS-B. Duncan Aviation, which has been closely monitoring equipage data, said in a report last week that with 16 weeks to go before the end of the year, 23 percent, or 3,384 business jets, don’t have […]

Hundreds of Boeing 737 MAXes languish in storage sites all over the world but Reuters is reporting an Air Canada airplane got a few dozen hours on it in August and early September because of the airline’s unique position among MAX operators. Air Canada didn’t operate any 737s when it bought the MAX (it’s mostly […]

This week, AVweb’s new roundup found reports on an antique aircraft fly-in, a new product recycled from an old A340, and an electric aircraft manufacturer joining the speaker list for the ICAO Innovation Fair. We also uncovered 3-D woven composites on display at a California expo, a company marketing a differential measurement system for aerospace […]