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Aircraft

AINsight: 1 in 60 Rule and Why Accuracy Matters

Aircraft specification on aircraft listings need to be extremely accurate since buyer deals are often predicated on installed equipment per the specs.
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Rotorcraft

Lisa Atherton Appointed Bell CEO

Lisa Atherton will succeed Mitch Snyder as CEO of Bell Helicopter following his retirement.
Headshot Lia Atherton Bell Helicopter CEO
Rotorcraft

GAO Rejects Sikorsky FLRAA Appeal

After losing the FLRAA program, Sikorsky examines new markets for its X2 technology.
Siksory Raider-X (Photo: Sikorsky)
Maintenance and Modifications

Pro Star Aviation Performs In-the-field Lighting Upgrade

Pro Star Aviation upgrades a Phenom 300 with Whelen HID taxi and landing light system.
Phenom 300 with Whelen HID taxi and landing lighting upgrade installed
Maintenance and Modifications

Gulfstream Expanding Savannah Service Center

Gulfstream begins a $98.5M expansion to its Savannah service center.
Aerial view of Gulfstream Aerospace facilities at Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport
Sustainability and Environment

FAA Invests $19M in Aviation Noise Research

The FAA has awarded $19 million in research grants to 14 universities in an effort to reduce noise pollution associated with aviation.
An engineer looks at a holographic diagram of an airplane
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Gogo Connects You to Now and Next

Gogo Connects You to Now and Next
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Rotorcraft

Airbus Sells 50 H160 Helicopters To China's GDAT

GDAT deal for 50 Airbus H160s is largest sale to date for the new intermediate twin helicopter.
Airbus H160
Rotorcraft

Annual Global Helo Market Forecasted at $11.5B by 2032

Future Market Insights report predicts the global helicopter market will reach $11.5 billion by 2032.
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Aircraft

AINsight: Matching Words with Action

With the preowned business aircraft market normalizing, it's important to right-size pricing rather than overprice and assume the market will correct it.
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JetASAP Reports First-quarter Dip in Charter Rates

JetASAP reported an average decline in hourly, on-demand charter rates of 4 percent for the first quarter of 2023.
side view of business jet looking toward engine and tail
FBOs

Georgia FBOs See Ownership Changes

Two FBOs at separate Georgia airports have been purchased by competing chains.
Former Epps Aviation FBO at Atlanta-area Peachtree-DeKalb Airport

Baldwin Rolls Out External Safety Reporting Tool

Baldwin is offering a tool to its SMS program subscribers that would enable companies to receive external safety and quality reports.
Side view of business jet looking toward engine and tail
Aircraft

Wichita's Clemens Aviation Buys Rival Midwest Corporate

Clemens Aviation has cornered the FBO market at Colonel James Jabara Airport with its purchase of Midwest Corporate Aviation.
Clemens Aviation Beechjet 400As parked on airport ramp in front of facility at Wichita's Colonel James Jabara Airport
Avionics

ForeFlight Buys Flight Analytics Provider CloudAhoy

CloudAhoy has grown from a small post-flight debriefing tool into a flight data analytics provider, and it is now owned by Boeing's ForeFlight unit.
CloudAhoy debriefing of aircraft flight
Aircraft

Airbus To Build Second Assembly Line at Chinese A320 Site

An agreement to expand Airbus’s production capacity in China came during an official visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to Beijing.
Airbus A320 under assembly in Tianjin
Accidents

Vietnam Suspends Helitours After Fatal Crash

The Vietnamese Civil Aviation Authority has suspended helitour operations following a fatal Bell 505 crash on Wednesday.
VNH Bell 505 helicopters in flight over Ha Long Bay in Vietnam
Avionics

Bell 407GXi Autopilot UK-Approved

Bell's 3-axis autopilot is available as factory option or retrofit on Bell 407GXis.
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Regulations and Government

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport Plans To Ban Business Aircraft in 2025

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is proposing a ban on business aircraft starting in 2025 as part of a wider strategy to reduce noise and CO2 emissions.
Jet aviation Amsterdam
Accidents

Bizjets Sustain Two Fatal Accidents in 1Q2023

Accidents involving two U.S.-registered business jets and three turboprops took the lives of 16 crew and passengers in the first quarter of 2023.
Hawker 800XP resting at edge of runway with door open following an aborted takeoff
FutureFlight

H2Fly Tests Liquid Hydrogen Refueling Process for HY4 Technology Demonstrator Aircraft

Working with industrial gas supplier Air Liquide, H2Fly is preparing for flight tests this summer aimed at doubling the range of an aircraft fitted with its fuel cell-based powertrain.
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FutureFlight

South Korean eVTOL Developer Plana Expands Operations to the U.S.

The start-up has opened California offices in San Jose and Irvine to more readily connect with U.S. partners and also to advance its plans to achieve FAA type certification in 2028.
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FutureFlight

U.S. First Lady Jill Biden Visits Beta Technologies To Highlight Efforts To Build Clean-energy Workforce

U.S. First Lady Jill Biden and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona made a visit to Beta Technologies in Vermont this week to see how the electric aviation company is investing in educational opportunities and workforce development.
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FutureFlight

Volocopter Opens eVTOL Aircraft Manufacturing Facility in Germany

The large hangar at the company's airfield base in Bruchsal will be used to manufacture carbon fiber parts and electric propulsion units, as well as for final assembly of its family of eVTOL vehicles.
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FutureFlight

Stirling Dynamics Joins Hanwha in Developing Actuators for Vertical's VX4 eVTOL Aircraft

Hanwha Aerospace is joining forces with advanced engineering company Stirling Dynamics to produce a key component of Vertical Aerospace’s four-seat eVTOL air taxi. 
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FutureFlight

Revolution.Aero Event Promises Reality Check on Advanced Air Mobility

Organizers of the biannual conference will stage their European edition in Dublin on April 25-26.
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FutureFlight

Horizon Aircraft's Cavorite X5 eVTOL Technology Demonstrator Begins Wind Tunnel Testing

Newly released video from Horizon Aircraft shows the company’s half-scale Cavorite X5 eVTOL technology demonstrator conducting its first transition flight tests at the ACE Climatic Wind Tunnel in Oshawa, Ontario.
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Engines

Bird Ingestion Test Rule Stems from ‘Miracle on Hudson’

FAA bird ingestion certification test requirements were updated to ensure turbofan engines can ingest the largest medium flocking bird without a failing.
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Training and Workforce

CAE Inaugurates First U.S. West Coast Bizav Training Center

For CAE, its new facility in Las Vegas represents its first expansion to the Western U.S.
CAE president and CEO Marc Parent (center) cuts ribbon alongside colleagues during Las Vegas Training center inauguration
Charter & Fractional

Volato Floats $25 Million Debt Offering

Fractional provider Volato is raising $25 million to finance more HondaJets.
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