Aviation News

Two divers have discovered the wreckage of a Korean War-era Douglas A-1 Skyraider off the San Diego coastline, KSWB Fox 5 reported this week. Dennis Burns and Ruth Yu were exploring the shallow waters off Mission Beach when they found an airplane submerged about 60 feet deep. Its identification plate confirmed it was a Skyraider […]

AVweb’s search of aviation news worldwide found an ADS-B solution and a UL Power distributor for experimental aircraft, an expanded e-FIRC from AOPA and the first field helicopter installation for new Garmin avionics.NavWorx, Inc. announced today its ADS600-EXP Universal Access Transceiver (UAT), an affordable ADS-B technology solution for Experimental/LSA aircraft owners. The NavWorx ADS600-EXP is […]

The European Space Agency had a successful test of its unmanned mini-spacecraft Wednesday, launching theIntermediate eXperimental Vehicle and recovering it after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. The design of the IXV spaceplane, as the ESA calls it, will ultimately result in a reusable spacecraft. The big push now is to develop re-entry capability and data […]

AVweb’s search of aviation news worldwide found a new STC from Hartzell Propeller, Bearhawk Aircraft’s debuts in Africa and South America, Monarch Sky’s introduction of bitcoin and a new home for Air+Space Academy. Hartzell received a Supplemental Type Certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration for the company’s new state-of-the-art lightweight Scimitar prop for all Cessna […]

The company that makes the drone that ended up on the White House lawn last week says it’s programming its products to be unflyable within a 15.5 mile radius of downtown Washington, D.C.”We are updating the no fly zones to include the D.C. metropolitan area in accordance with FAA guidelines,” said Michael Perry, spokesman DJI, […]

AVweb’s search of news in aviation turned up new aircraft sales for RedHawk Aero, a commercial drone repair-and-return-to-service from Robotic Skies, and two new STCs — air conditioning for the Cessna 206 series, and a VG kit for Diamond aircraft.RedHawk Aero, a subsidiary of Redbird Flight Simulations, announced that Cochise College in Douglas, Arizona, has […]

Last Sunday’s Cirrus ditching off Hawaii was so well documented via video that it has raised some interesting questions about how the CAPS system performed. Not the least of these was that seemingly interminable nosedown moment after the initial deployment. Did that take longer than it was supposed to? Not really, according to Boris Popov […]

The FAA reminded drone operators on Wednesday that the perennial Super BowlTFR (PDF) applies to them too, not just pilots of manned aircraft. The NOTAM, published earlier this month for Sunday’s Super Bowl XLIX in Glendale, Arizona, includes the standard restrictions of GA operations such as flight training and sightseeing as well as “model aircraft […]

I bet the Maalox was gurgling away at 800 Independence Ave. on Monday when the news broke that the Secret Service found an errant drone on the White House grounds. Fortunately, the impending blizzard that’s going to kill everyone in the northeast pushed the story below the fold, but I’m sure the FAA phones were […]

A drone pilot who fought a $10,000 government fine for filming video with an unmanned aircraft in 2011 has settled his case for $1,100 without admitting guilt, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Raphael Pirker, a Swiss citizen, flew a drone over the University of Virginia in 2011 to make a promotional video. In court, he challenged the […]