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Sustainability and Environment

Neste Teams With Avfuel at SDC

For the first time, major SAF producer Neste is exhibiting along side fuel distributor Avfuel at an industry event.
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Aircraft

Daher Launches Upgraded TBM 960 at Florida Airshow

Daher took the wraps off its latest-generation TBM turboprop single—the TBM 960—at the Sun ’n Fun Aerospace Expo in Florida.
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Maintenance and Modifications

Volare Aviation Opens Helicopter Maintenance Facility at Oxford

The opening of a dedicated helicopter maintenance, management, and refurbishment facility will help Volare Aviation keep up with demand growth, it said.
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Training and Workforce

WAI/King CFI Scholarship Awarded to Charnell Walls

Charnell Walls wants to use her CFI scholarship as a springboard into teaching young girls to fly.
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NBAA Honors Dickson with American Spirit Award

NBAA's board of directors presented the American Spirit Award to Steve Dickson late last month shortly before he stepped down as FAA administrator.
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Sustainability and Environment

Flashback: Volcanic Ash Cloud Paralyzes Swath of European Airspace

We look back at some memorable events and coverage from AIN's half-century-old archives.
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FutureFlight

Composite Manufacturers Provide Guidance on Advanced Air Mobility Applications for New Materials

In April, the American Composite Manufacturers Association is holding a series of webinars about how different materials can apply to the design and production of new types of aircraft and the infrastructure that supports them.
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FutureFlight

Piasecki Prepares To Step Up Testing Regime for Hydrogen-Powered Helicopter

Piasecki Aircraft's CEO and president, John Piasecki, provided a detailed PA-890 helicopter program update at recent Vertical Flight Society events.
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FutureFlight

ZeroAvia Teams with Zev Station To Develop Hydrogen Refueling at California Airports

ZeroAvia and Zev Station are both participating in the Vertical Flight Society's new H-2 Aero Team initiative to advance hydrogen propulsion for aviation.
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FutureFlight

Spirit AeroSystems To Work on Electric Aviation Group's Hydrogen Airliner Plans

The aerostructures group is to collaborate in the development of a 90-seat airliner but has yet to specify what its role will be.
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Russ Meyer Reflects on the Early Days of Business Aviation - AIN’s 50th Anniversary

Russ Meyer Reflects on the Early Days of Business Aviation - AIN’s 50th Anniversary
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Sustainability and Environment

Santa Monica Airport Converts to Unleaded Avgas

The self-serve avgas pumps at California’s Santa Monica Airport have transitioned to Swift UL94 unleaded aviation gasoline.
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Safety

NATA Launches New FBO Safety Program Directory

NATA has launched a new online directory that will help operators identify what safety programs airports and FBOs participate in.
Aircraft

Textron Aviation Certifies, Delivers First M2 Gen2

California-based Elite Team Offices took delivery of the first Cessna Citation M2 Gen2 light twinjet.
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Fuel

East Coast Jet Fuel Prices See Record-high Spike

The petroleum sanctions placed on Russia are having an effect on jet-A pricing in the U.S., particularly on the East Coast.
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Aircraft

Lilium Delays eVTOL Certification Timeline to 2025

Lilium has pushed back the projected timeline to achieve type certification of its seven-seat Lilium Jet eVTOL by 12 or more months, to 2025.
Safety

Web Manuals, Flight Safety Foundation Partner on BARS

The Basic Aviation Risk Standard (BARS) is a risk-based management program for organizations that use aircraft operators to provide contracted support.
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Regulations and Government

DOT IG Critical of FAA's Counter-UAS Measure Oversight

The U.S. DOT’s inspector general office found that the FAA is lacking resources in its oversight of counter-UAS measures.
Aircraft

Air Plains Services Exhibits Cessna 182XP 300hp at Sun n' Fun

Air Plains Services will showcase its extensive tip-to-tail refurbishment of a 1976 Cessna 182 which features a 300hp engine upgrade.
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FBOs

Titan Aviation Fuels Expands To Europe with Akryl Deal

Titan Aviation Fuels acquired Geneva, Switzerland-based aviation fuel reseller Akryl, allowing Titan to expand into Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
Charter & Fractional

PrivateFly Sees Triple-digit Climb in Jet Card Sales

The European jet card provider also reported March was its strongest month ever for jet card sales.
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Aircraft

Textron Aviation Updates Beechcraft, Cessna Pistons

Textron Aviation is offering standard upgrades to new production Beechcraft Barons and Bonanzas as well as Cessna high-wing pistons.
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Wings of Love To Aid Children Surviving Crash Losses

The nonprofit Wings of Love launched to raise funds and provide assistance to children who have lost parents in aircraft accidents.
Accidents

Cockpit Voice Recorder from China Eastern 737 Sent to U.S.

U.S. accident investigator NTSB confirms it has received the CVR from China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 for downloading.
Aircraft

NATO Awards Contracts for AWACS Replacement Studies

In the mid-2030s NATO’s current fleet of aging E-3 AWACS will be retired, to be replaced by a system-of-systems combining aircraft with other assets.
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FBOs

Survey: Most FBOs Saw Fuel Sales Bump in 2021

Nearly three-quarters of the FBOs in the U.S. and Canada saw higher fuel sales last year than they did in 2020, according to ABSG's annual industry survey.
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Avionics

Bell 212 Gets Archangel Upgrade

Central American Aviation Services has completed the first Bell 212 upgrade with the Archangel air data attitude/heading reference system.
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Flashback: EASA’s certification will produce no profit margin

We look back at some memorable events and coverage from AIN's half-century-old archives.
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FutureFlight

Aircraft Sales Group Blueberry Agrees to Add Dufour's Aero eVTOL Family to Its Portfolio

Dufour Aerospace and Blueberry Aviation expect their collaboration to result in launch customers for the Aero2 and Aero3 among Blueberry’s operators.
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Aircraft

Malaysia’s Defense Show Highlights New Procurements

The first Defence Services Asia (DSA) show for four years was a well-attended event to display and discuss regional requirements.
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