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The Aviators, a mostly general aviation-themed documentary lifestyle television series, has wrapped filming for its third season and the first episode will appear Sept. 17 on PBS. In a news release, producer Anthony Nalli said the crew spent 46 days filming in 18 locations to compile a wide variety of segments for the increasingly popular […]

Neil Armstrong, the civilian astronaut who became the first human to set foot on another celestial body, died Saturday from complications from a heart bypass operation he underwent two weeks ago. He was 82. Armstrong lived with his wife Carol in Cincinnati. There was no immediate word on the plan for remembering the self-described “nerdy […]

The prosecution was seeking one year in prison, but a judge has handed down a sentence of four years probation, plus a $100 “special assessment,” for a pilot who falsified logbook entries while seeking advanced ratings. According to the U.S. Attorney’s office, Fahad al-Daous submitted a logbook containing an extra 90-plus hours pilot-in-command time and […]

New wing cracks on an Airbus A380 airframe and the continued possibility of full panel blackouts aboard some A320s put Airbus back in the spotlight this week. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Thursday announced that operators of A380 superjumbo aircraft must perform additional “repetitive detailed visual inspections” after a new area of the jet’s […]

Some pilots training as pilots for the French air force and navy will be passing through Cirrus SR20 and SR22 aircraft along the way following a new agreement, Cirrus announced Thursday. The agreement goes through Cassidian Aviation Training Services (CATS), which the French Air Force Flight School has selected for outsourced training. CATS will operate […]

A new product joining the ranks of ADS-B offerings may have particular appeal to individuals and operators who own multiple aircraft as well as renters who own none, because it’s portable. SkyVision Xtreme this week introduced its fully portable ADS-B In and Out system that delivers all ADS-B traffic (in 3-D presentation) and weather “to […]

IMC Club International Inc. will be opening additional chapters in the next few weeks at CP Aviation in Santa Paula, Calif., Aug. 25, RedBird Skyport in San Marcos, Texas, Sept. 13, and MotionAir Aviation in Midlothian, Texas, Sept. 14, for the inaugural meetings. Also, new chapters and meetings are planned for North Carolina, Nevada, Michigan, […]

Pipistrel Aircraft is back in business in the U.S. after the FAA re-examined its position on the manufacturing site of the speedy composite LSAs and ended an import ban on the aircraft. As we reported in Wednesday’s AVwebBiz, Pipistrel spokesman Michael Coates said the FAA imposed the ban after a staff member was unable to […]

A southern California company has gained new attention after posting video clips that show manned flight testing of its proof-of-concept VTOL vehicle, which it says could lead to “personal flight as intuitive as riding a bike.” The vertical takeoff and landing vehicle employs no artificial intelligence, or electronic flight control, or software of any kind. […]

The Entrepreneurial Challenge is a competition organized by Sikorsky Innovations to promote emerging revolutionary technology in the advancement of rotorcraft, and the application period ends this fall on Oct. 10. This year’s challenge comes in the form of five questions, all of which address increased efficiencies or new technology that leads to higher or more […]