leadnews

On Sept. 30, Eclipse Aviation was awarded full certification for its groundbreaking Eclipse 500 jet, and the first customer delivery was expected within days … and then it was expected amid fanfare at the National Business Aviation Association convention in Orlando last week … and now the word (per The New York Times) is, “as […]

One of the major selling points of the HondaJet is the company’s claim that the aircraft will be up to 35 percent more fuel efficient than comparable aircraft. The efficiency comes from the clean-sheet engine design Honda created in a collaboration with GE and from the unique placement of the engines on wing-mounted pylons. Honda […]

The HondaJet has been on sale for less than a week and the Honda Aircraft Company says it’s already looking at boosting production of the twinjet, which won’t be certified until 2010. In a news release, Honda said it took deposits on more than 100 orders for the $3.65 million plane during the three-day National […]

On the ATC recording, which was obtained from LiveATC.net, a pilot using the registration number (N9130N) of the accident airplane asks for an in-flight IFR clearance. The controller responds by asking the pilot if his transponder is set to 1200, to which the pilot replies in the affirmative. “You’re violating the ADIZ, you need to […]

Pilot chat rooms are lighting up with speculation over the involvement of an apparent ADIZ violation in the crash of a Piper PA-46 near Tipton Airport in Maryland that killed two people last Thursday. The airplane appears to be a JetProp conversion, although the FAA registry lists it as a piston-powered Malibu. So far, the […]

Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) said on Tuesday that it plans to introduce a new multi-crew pilot license. The license would be issued to pilots who train specifically to become a first officer in an air-transport operation, and would require just 240 hours of total time, with 70 hours of that in an actual […]

Nancy Lynn, 50, an aerobatics instructor and performer who lived in Annapolis, Md., died in a Virginia hospital this weekend after an air show accident in her Extra 300L. Lynn was performing at Culpeper Regional Airport while her son, Pete, 18, narrated the show from the announcer’s stand. The Extra’s left wingtip hit the ground, […]

Attendance at the National Business Aviation Association annual convention this week in Orlando reached 31,919 attendees by midday yesterday, the second day of the show. This second-day sum is already more than 10 percent higher than the final three-day total for the 2005 show, also held in Orlando. The tally also surpasses the previous attendance […]

Cirrus Executive Vice President of Marketing and Sales John Bingham told AVweb that the name “the jet” derives from this repeated question: “When will you guys be doing the jet?” So the name stuck. Cirrus’ jet program was launched in June and yesterday at the NBAA show Cirrus announced that it selected the 1,900-pound-thrust Williams […]

Snecma introduced the name Silvercrest for its new 8,000- to 12,000-pound-thrust engine family. The intended application for the Silvercrest is a large cabin, long-range aircraft with a maximum takeoff weight between 45,000 and 60,000 pounds, Snecma said. It can also be scaled up to power a new generation of 40- to 60-seat regional jets. Core […]