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April 02, 2019

ADF Issues Final Acceptance Of Kratos CH-47F Helicopter Avionics Training System

Fire Suppression Aircraft Will Be Built At Company's Goodyear, AZ Facility

AerSale, a supplier of mid-life aircraft, engines, used serviceable material, and maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services, announced today it has signed a contract with Aero Air/Erickson Aero Tanker to build another firefighting air tanker for the company’s fleet at AerSale’s MRO facility in Goodyear, Arizona. Conversion of the 6th MD-87 aircraft, formally begins on April 1 and will mark the sixth such aircraft modification AerSale has completed at Goodyear.

Also: Continental Name Change, Mother-Daughter Pilots, Challenger Center Founder, AEA 2019 Archive

It’s one thing to keep your promises... it’s another to exceed them. And that appears to be what the first US-registered Sling TSi is doing. Following an impressive Sunday non-stop flight from California to Florida, for Sun ‘n Fun, we’ve confirmed with N135WT’s owner, Wayne Toddun, that the bird is doing better than he was promised. Embraer has competed certification flight tests for its new Praetor 600 business jets. Multiple media sources indicate that the fl

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TechFarms Startup In The Running for $1 Million Boeing GoFly Prize

Dragonair's AirBoard 2.0 Personal Flying Device Among 5 Finalists Worldwide

GoFly, an international human flight competition, has named TechFarms startup Dragonair Aviation as a finalist for its $1 million grand prize. GoFly, sponsored by Boeing, challenges inventors worldwide to make human flight a reality by building the world's first personal flying device.

Details Being Finalized At Langkawi International Maritime And Aerospace Exhibition 2019

Russian Helicopters Holding Company (part of Rostec State Corporation) is holding negotiations regarding delivery of up to eight rotorcraft units of three types to Malaysian customers. Contract details are to be specified during the fifteenth Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition 2019 on Langkawi island.

Harvey Milk Becomes Norwegian’s Latest American Tail Fin Hero

Image Will Appear On The Vertical Stabilizer Of A Boeing Dreamliner

Norwegian has unveiled its newest tail fin hero, and eighth American to be immortalized on a Norwegian aircraft: Harvey Milk.

Will Acquire A Planned Fleet Of Six Of The UAVs

Australia's Minister for Defense, the Hon Christopher Pyne MP, and the Minister for Defense Industry, Senator the Hon Linda Reynolds CSC, have announced that the Government will purchase the next MQ-4C Triton Remotely Piloted Aircraft.

Logs Most Hours In The Helicopter Last Year

Airbus Helicopters held a ceremony at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA) to honor the Royal Malaysian Air Force for being the H225M military operator that logged the most number of flight hours worldwide in 2018.

Would Retain Title Of Air Force Space Commander

President Donald Trump has nominated Air Force Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond to be the commander of U.S. Space Command. Raymond currently holds the position of Air Force Space Commander, and would retain that title if he is confirmed by the U.S. Senate to run the new combatant command focusing on space operations and war doctrine.

Commits To Elevating Aircraft Management Service For The Modern Private Aircraft Owner

Corporate Wings, an aircraft management company and a member of the Directional Aviation family of companies, has named Elizabeth Ricci to the position of chief executive officer. She was previously Corporate Wings’ vice president of client services.

Industry Standard In Quality Assurance Along Entire Supply Chain

Schiebel was awarded the widely recognized EN 9100 certification for quality management systems in the aviation, space and defense industry last month.

Avfuel Welcomes Pacific States Aviation To Branded Network

Adds FBO At Buchanan Field In The Bay Area

Avfuel and Pacific States Aviation announce their partnership as the FBO selects Avfuel as its branded fuel supplier. Operators flying into the FBO at Buchanan Field (KCCR) will now benefit from Avfuel’s programs, including Avfuel Contract Fuel and AVTRIP rewards.

Move 'Critical' To Growth In The Asia Pacific Region, CEO Says

MAG Aerospace (MAG) has acquired two Australia-based entities; Encore Aviation and Encore Helicopter Maintenance ("Encore Aviation"). Encore Aviation is a leading maintenance organization supporting General Aviation in Australia and provides home base and deployed engineering and maintenance services to a wide variety of fixed and rotary wing aviation organizations including those contracted to the National Aerial Firefighting Center in Melbourne.

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DOT OIG Will Begin Work Immediately

The Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General has initiated an audit of security controls for the FAA’s Unmanned Aircraft System Registry.

Ground And Flight Operations Enabled, First Flight In 2021

Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) Dream Chaser spacecraft passed NASA’s Integrated Review Milestone 5 (IR5), a key status check on SNC’s performance of a variety of ground and flight operations.

Research To Begin May 15 In Multiple States

The most ambitious drone-based investigation of severe storms ever to be conducted will be launched in coming weeks by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and three partner institutions — Texas Tech University, the University of Colorado Boulder, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Severe Storms Laboratory.

OSU's USRI Receives First FAA Authorization To Fly In Swarms

Will Allow Single Pilot To Operate Up To 20 UAVs

Oklahoma State University’s Unmanned Systems Research Institute (USRI) recently received its certificate of authorization from the FAA to permit flights of a fixed wing aircraft swarm within national airspace, making them the first in the country to receive this authorization.

More Power And Capacity, Strengthened Fuselage Components, Third Seat To Be Unveiled

Lockwood Aircraft is pleased to announced several news items regarding its popular twin-engine AirCam in time for the Sun ‘n Fun 2019 event in Lakeland, Florida.

Satellite Will Bring New Technology And Capabilities To Modernize The GPS Constellation

The U.S. Air Force’s second new GPS III satellite, bringing higher-power, more accurate and harder-to-jam signals to the GPS constellation, has arrived in Florida for launch in July.

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To understand how tornadoes are formed, we need to study their ‘parent’ storms, called supercells. In TORUS, scientists will deploy a suite of radars and drones to observe these supercells." Source: Chungu Lu, a program director in the NSF’s Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences.

The calibrated airspeed on the ground at which, as a result of engine failure or other reasons, the pilot assumed to have made a decision to continue or discontinue the takeoff.

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Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee

Congress returns to work this week following the August recess. One of the most important committees to the aviation industry in the United States Senate is the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

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Fire Suppression Aircraft Will Be Built At Company's Goodyear, AZ Facility

Also: Continental Name Change, Mother-Daughter Pilots, Challenger Center Founder, AEA 2019 Archive

Dragonair's AirBoard 2.0 Personal Flying Device Among 5 Finalists Worldwide

Details Being Finalized At Langkawi International Maritime And Aerospace Exhibition 2019

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Image Will Appear On The Vertical Stabilizer Of A Boeing Dreamliner

Will Acquire A Planned Fleet Of Six Of The UAVs

Logs Most Hours In The Helicopter Last Year

Would Retain Title Of Air Force Space Commander

Commits To Elevating Aircraft Management Service For The Modern Private Aircraft Owner

Industry Standard In Quality Assurance Along Entire Supply Chain

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Adds FBO At Buchanan Field In The Bay Area

Move 'Critical' To Growth In The Asia Pacific Region, CEO Says

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DOT OIG Will Begin Work Immediately

Ground And Flight Operations Enabled, First Flight In 2021

Research To Begin May 15 In Multiple States

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More Power And Capacity, Strengthened Fuselage Components, Third Seat To Be Unveiled

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