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All News

June 09, 2017

FAA Awards STC For Turboprop Autothrottle

Patent-Pending Design A Retrofit For PC-12 Engines

The FAA has granted an STC to Innovative Solutions & Support for its Non-FADEC Turboprop Autothrottle (Patent Pending) for retrofit in the PC-12. Unique to the industry, the IS&S Autothrottle manages the PT6 engine, provides for FADEC like engine protection and prevents engine over torque and over temperature conditions while providing speed envelope protection easing pilot workload and enhancing safety.

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City Of Pendleton Opens New Hangar At Eastern Oregon Regional Airport

Vahana, An A3 By Airbus Project, To Be The First Occupant

SOAR Oregon, a statewide nonprofit based in Bend that fosters growth in the state’s rapidly evolving Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) industry, has opened a new, 9,600 square-foot hangar at Pendleton’s UAS Range (PUR), which will be officially opened at a ribbon-cutting on Saturday, June 10.

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Flexjet To Hire New Pilots In Response To New Business Surge

Resumes Hiring Of Experienced Pilots From Outside The Company

Flexjet  has resumed external hiring of pilots for the first time since 2015. Flexjet plans to hire a significant number of pilots to handle new business that increased 50 percent in the first five months of 2017 compared to the same period in 2016, on top of 20 percent growth in new business during 2016.

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CPI Receives Follow-On Order From Sikorsky For S-92 Helicopter

Will Provide Structural Assemblies And Kits For The Aircraft

CPI Aerostructures has entered into a long term, follow-on contract with Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company, to provide structural assemblies and kits for the S-92 helicopter program.

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AD: Bombardier, Inc., Airplanes

AD NUMBER: 2017-11-12

PRODUCT: Certain Bombardier, Inc., Model BD-100-1A10 airplanes.

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FAA Publishes Commercial Pilot Airplane Airman Certification Standards

Replaces The Practical Test Standards For Airplane

The FAA has published the Commercial Pilot – Airplane Airman Certification Standards (ACS) document to communicate the aeronautical knowledge, risk management, and flight proficiency standards for the commercial pilot certification in the airplane category, single-engine land and sea; and multiengine land and sea classes. This ACS incorporates and supersedes FAA-S-8081-12C, Commercial Pilot Practical Test Standards (PTS) for Airplane.

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FAA Certifies Bell 505 Jet Ranger X

Validation From Other Countries Expected To Follow Quickly

The FAA has fully certified the Bell Jet Ranger X helicopter almost exactly four years after being introduced as the Bell Short Light Single (SLS) at the Paris Airshow on June 17, 2013.

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Honda Aircraft Company Secures Canadian Type Certification

Joins FAA, EASA And Mexico's Directorate General of Civil Aviation In Approving The Aircraft

Transport Canada has certified the Hondajet, opening the door for deliveries to Canada. The certification was granted June 1.

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Drone Federalism Act Would Potentially Create Hodgepodge Of Local Laws

Bill Introduced By Senator Feinstein (D-CA), But Has Some Bipartisan Support

The Drone Federalism Act introduced by Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) late last month could lead to a hodgepodge of local ordinances concerning the operation of drones.

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