Recent Updates

Less than six months after its first flight, Textron Aviation’s Cessna Citation CJ3+ has been certified by the FAA. The FAA stamped the paperwork on Thursday (Sept. 4, 2014) for the aircraft, a modern makeover of the original, which was launched in 2003. The biggest change is the Garmin G3000 avionics suite, which includes the […]

Police in Nova Scotia used an unmanned aerial system (UAS) equipped with surveillance camera to find a family lost in a wilderness area late Saturday. A couple and their 17-year-old daughter got disoriented after setting out on a hike about 4:30 p.m. and called police for help on a cellphone about 8:30 p.m.The Royal Canadian […]

Last July, an FAA spokesperson gave stunning testimony before Congress-she said that the FAA was going to miss its December 2015 deadline for the rewrite of FAR Part 23 to simplify small aircraft certification by at least two years. As would be expected, the aviation community expressed its fury. Members of Congress sent letters to […]

A new TBM 900 (type is formally listed as a variant of the TBM 700) registered to a Rochester, N.Y., LLC crashed off the east coast of Jamaica Friday after the pilot reportedly became incapacitated on a planned flight from the aircraft’s home base to Naples, Florida. Rochester officials have identified the occupants of the […]

Parimal Kopardekar, principal investigator for NASA’s Unmanned Aerial Systems Traffic Management (UTM) project, is working to create a systemthat would help make it possible for UAS to operate in specified low-altitude zones within the national airspace. He talked with AVweb’s Mary Grady about the technology and its timeline. Duration: 9:45 File Size: 9.1 MB download […]

Continental Motors Services (CMS)-a division of Continental Motors Group-announcedThursday (PDF) that it has entered into an agreement with Aircraft Specialties Lubricants (ASL) to jointly evaluate the claimed benefits of ASLs CamGuard, an aviation oil additive. The evaluation program will be on engines overhauled or repaired by CMS (formerly Mattituck) to demonstrate merits of pairing the […]

On Wednesday, Cirrus Aircraft announced that it had made two internal executive promotions and appointed three people from outside the company to vice president slots. In the release, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Cirrus Dale Klapmeier said, Cirrus Aircraft has great depth in our leadership and today we have enhanced our capabilities and further […]

In its weekly perusal of developments in aviation, AVweb’s staff turned up news of an expansion of SocialFlight, insurance benefits for customers of Crosswind Concepts, the annual convention of the Silver Wings Fraternity and certification of Piper’s M-Class airplanes in China. SocialFlight, a web and mobile app for finding events and interesting places to fly, […]

Boeing’s experimental Phantom Swift X-Plane program won $9.4 million from DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), Jane’s Defence Weekly has reported. The funding will enable Boeing to “continue to refine their design of the experimental aircraft, bringing it to a preliminary design review level,” the Defense Department said. The Phantom Swift was selected for […]

Continental Motors has announced a major fleet sale of its CD-135 diesel engine to a Spanish flight school. Aerodynamics Malaga S.L. will retrofit 16 Cessna 172s with the diesel and the first four are headed for the shop immediately. Two of the school’s mechanics have been certified to look after the engines after attending a […]