Lilium, the Munich-based, German aerospace concern, announced it has received U.S. Federal Aviation Administration G-1 Certification Basis requisite type-certificate validation of its Lilium Jet. The FAA’s issuance of G-1 certification vis-à-vis Lilium’s eVTOL comes some three-years after the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA)—Lilium’s primary airworthiness authority—issued analogous provisions.
EAA AirVenture 2023 will see Hartzell Engine Tech—formerly Hartzell Engine Technologies—present a number of educational forums for pilots and aircraft owners and maintainers at Booths 257 and 258.
The Federal Aviation Administration set forth in a Twitter thread that the malfunction and subsequent repair of a radar system at the Potomac Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) facility had compelled the agency to ground flights across the airports of the Washington D.C. Metroplex for roughly one hour on Sunday, 25 June 2023.
The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) has announced the extension of its Platinum-Level sponsorship with U.S. aerospace titan Boeing. The EAA’s AirVenture relationship with Boeing—by which the whole of the general aviation sector benefits—dates back to 1989 and has kept Boeing’s AirVenture presence among the largest on AirVenture’s Oshkosh, Wisconsin grounds.
The NTSB has released its final report on a 17 March 2023 accident in which a 1950-vintage Ryan Navion A, registration N610, and a 1987 Yakovlev YAK-52, registration N2504U, collided while taking part in a formation flight in the vicinity of Mesa, Arizona. The incident saw both aircraft substantially damaged and one of the Navion’s two occupants seriously injured.
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