Aero-News Network: The aviation and aerospace world's daily/real-time news and information service

AF Announces NAS JRB Fort Worth As Preferred Location For Next F-35A Base

Selected Over Bases In Florida, Arizona, And Missouri

Air Force officials announced Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas, as the preferred location for the first Air Force Reserve-led F-35 base, which is expected to begin receiving its first F-35As in the mid-2020s.

U.S. Forest Service Releases 'Learning Review' From Helicopter Accident

Two Fatally Injured When The Aircraft Setting Controlled Burns Went Down In Mississippi

A 90-page "Learning Review" has been released by the U.S. Forest Service analyzing an accident which occurred on March 30, 2015 that fatally injured contract pilot Brandon Ricks and Forest Service employee Steve Cobb. Another Forest Service employee was seriously injured in the accident.

BMT Develops First Ever UAV To Perform A Perched Landing

Uses Machine Learning Algorithms To Land Like A Bird

The very first UAV to perform a perched landing using machine learning algorithms has been developed in partnership with the University of Bristol and BMT Defense Services (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd.

BTS Statistics Release: November 2016 Passenger Airline Employment Data

Number Of Employees Grew By 3.7 Percent Over November 2015

U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 3.7 percent more workers in November 2016 than in November 2015, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today. November was the highest monthly FTE total (416,046) since January 2005 (417,789) and was the 37th consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline full-time equivalent (FTE) employment exceeded the same month of the previous year.

Kaman Completes First K-MAX Airframe From Jacksonville Production Line

Has Been Shipped To Connecticut For Final Assembly, Testing And Certification

Kaman Aerosystems has successfully delivered its first airframe from the reopened K-MAX production line in Jacksonville, Florida to the Company’s plant in Bloomfield, Connecticut where it will undergo final assembly, testing, and certification.

Historic Cape Canaveral Building Gets New Lockheed Martin Tenants

Building Originally Constructed For NASA's First Manned Spaceflight Mission

The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin recently cut the ribbon on a newly-renovated facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Nearly 200 Lockheed Martin employees who work on the Navy’s Fleet Ballistic Missile program will move into the facility over the next few months.

Bell Helicopter, Simrik Air Celebrate First Bell 407GXP Delivery In Nepal

Aircraft Configured For Multiple Missions Including SAR

Bell Helicopter has announced the delivery of the first Bell 407GXP to Nepal with customer Simrik Air. This is the customer’s first Bell helicopter and is outfitted for multi-mission capabilities, including travel and tourism and search and rescue. Bell Helicopter and Simrik Air commemorated the delivery at a special ceremony in Kathmandu, Nepal.

CHC Helicopter Announces New Contract With Siemens Wind Power GmbH

Will Support Wind Farm Currently Under Construction In The North Sea

CHC Group has announced a new contract with Siemens Wind Power GmbH to provide helicopter services in support of the construction of the Veja Mate offshore wind farm currently under construction in the German North Sea.

FAA Grants STC To MT-Propeller For Cessna 208 Supervan

New Five-Blade Propeller Approved For The Aircraft

The FAA has granted an STC to MT-Propeller for the installation of the MTV-27 composite prop on Cessna's 208 Supervan.

Living Legends of Aviation Honors Flexjet Chairman Kenn Ricci

Receives Lifetime Aviation Entrepreneur Award

Kenneth C. “Kenn” Ricci, chairman and CEO of Flexjet, will receive the Lifetime Aviation Entrepreneur Award at the Living Legends of Aviation 14th Annual Awards, to be held at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on Friday, January 20, 2017.

Amateur Photographer Captures Images Of F-16/SU-27 Dogfight Over Groom Lake

Likely First Such Images Captured In The U.S.

An air traffic controller from Hampshire in the U.K. visiting the desert surrounding Area 51 in Nevada managed to capture some amazing images of an F-16 engaged in a mock dogfight with a Russian-made Su-27P Flanker-B aircraft that he thinks may be the first such images captured in the U.S.

AD: The Boeing Company Airplanes

AD NUMBER: 2017-01-09

PRODUCT: Certain The Boeing Company Model 767-300 and 767-300F series airplanes.

Aero-TV: Hover Camera Passport - A Gesture Controlled Selfie Drone

It’s So Simple to Operate, Anyone Can do it… And we’re Not Kidding

The drones were up and flying at the Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas in January 2017. Our ANN crew was there to cover the events, and ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell, found a drone called the Hover Camera Passport, this thing is really cool! Jim talked with Hover Camera founder and CEO, MQ Wang, and started off by asking about the thought process behind this unusual drone.

FAA, EAA Work Toward Streamlined Approval Of Safety-Enhancing Equipment

EAA’s Dynon STC Effort Energizes Effort Toward Broader Application

A proposed new compliance pathway for Parts Manufacturer Approval (PMA) for manufacturing of low risk safety-enhancing avionics and other low risk equipment emerged during a January 17 meeting in Oshkosh between EAA, top FAA officials, and aviation industry members.

Legal Ruling Is First To Cite Pilot's Bill Of Rights Medical Reform Mandates

Foreign Pilot Had Been Falsely Accused Of Failing To Report An Arrest On An FAA Medical Application Form

A foreign pilot has been cleared of charges that he falsified an FAA medical application form, and an emergency order of revocation of his airman privileges has been been reversed. His attorney says that the case is the first intentional falsification matter where the Pilot’s Bill of Rights medical reform mandates played a key role in the victory.

University Of North Dakota Adds Robinson R44 Cadet Trainer

First Of The Training Helicopters To Be Flown By The School

On January 13th, Robinson Helicopter Company delivered an R44 Cadet to the University of North Dakota (UND). This is the first Cadet to be used in UND’s prestigious flight training program.

Piper Dakota Down On Oregon Coast

Pilot Was Well Known Resident Of Pahrump, NV Raymond Wulfenstein

A Piper Dakota being flown by Pahrump, NV resident Raymond Wulfenstein along the Oregon coast went down Friday after the 79-year-old pilot reported to ATC that he was suffering a medical issue.

AeroSports Update: BasicMed Advisory Circular Issued

Advisory Circular AC 68-1 Has Been Issued To Detail The New BasicMed Regulation

As is often the case when new regulations are issued, the regulation itself is supplemented by an advisory circular to explain what the regulation is all about. Such is the case with the new BasicMed regulation that has revise compliance requirements for a third class FAA medical.

Rolls-Royce Completes Agreements With Investigating Authorities

Rolls-Royce CEO Warren East Declares Past Behaviour Completely Unacceptable And Reaffirms Zero Tolerance Of Business Misconduct

Rolls-Royce has entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) with the approval of the President of the Queen’s Bench Division (The Right Honourable Sir Brian Leveson) and published by the SFO.

Klyde Morris 01.20.17

Now We'll See What The Future May Bring ...

FMI: www.klydemorris.com

Airborne 01.19.17: $200K Drone Fine, Sandia IVSI TSO, 'Can't Close' KSMO

Also: MH370 Search Suspended, Supporting AUVSI, Sikorsky S-92, Challenger Astronaut, Stressed Pilots, JBA Aviation, Embraer E2

A settlement agreement has been reached between the FAA and the drone operating company, SkyPan International of Chicago. The agreement resolves enforcement cases occurring between 2012 and 2014 that alleged the company operated unmanned aircraft in congested airspace over New York City and Chicago, and violated airspace regulations and aircraft operating rules. Under the terms of the agreement, SkyPan will pay a $200,000 civil penalty. Additional penalties apply if the company

Aero-News: Quote of the Day (01.20.17)

“Our plans are for this to be the first of many R44 Cadets which will keep us on the leading edge of flight training.” Source: Don Dubuque, Director of UND Extension Programs. UND recently took delivery of its first R44 Cadet helicopter.

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (01.20.17): Interrogator

The ground-based surveillance radar beacon transmitter-receiver, which normally scans in synchronism with a primary radar, transmitting discrete radio signals which repetitiously request all transponders on the mode being used to reply.

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (01.20.17)

FAA Safety and Quality Assurance

The Safety and Quality Assurance Office assures the safety, effectiveness and supports quality of Aviation System Standards programs through the development and oversight of organizational safety and quality assurance policies and procedures.

Hide/Show Archive Navigation.

All News

January 20, 2017

Also: Daher Delivers, Aviation Progress, Tecnam P2012, D.B. Cooper, MH370 Search, T-45C Accident, Piper

Selected Over Bases In Florida, Arizona, And Missouri

Two Fatally Injured When The Aircraft Setting Controlled Burns Went Down In Mississippi

Uses Machine Learning Algorithms To Land Like A Bird

Number Of Employees Grew By 3.7 Percent Over November 2015

Advertisement

Has Been Shipped To Connecticut For Final Assembly, Testing And Certification

Building Originally Constructed For NASA's First Manned Spaceflight Mission

Aircraft Configured For Multiple Missions Including SAR

Will Support Wind Farm Currently Under Construction In The North Sea

New Five-Blade Propeller Approved For The Aircraft

Receives Lifetime Aviation Entrepreneur Award

Advertisement

Likely First Such Images Captured In The U.S.

AD NUMBER: 2017-01-09

It’s So Simple to Operate, Anyone Can do it… And we’re Not Kidding

EAA’s Dynon STC Effort Energizes Effort Toward Broader Application

Foreign Pilot Had Been Falsely Accused Of Failing To Report An Arrest On An FAA Medical Application Form

Advertisement

First Of The Training Helicopters To Be Flown By The School

Pilot Was Well Known Resident Of Pahrump, NV Raymond Wulfenstein

Advisory Circular AC 68-1 Has Been Issued To Detail The New BasicMed Regulation

Rolls-Royce CEO Warren East Declares Past Behaviour Completely Unacceptable And Reaffirms Zero Tolerance Of Business Misconduct

Now We'll See What The Future May Bring ...

Also: MH370 Search Suspended, Supporting AUVSI, Sikorsky S-92, Challenger Astronaut, Stressed Pilots, JBA Aviation, Embraer E2

Advertisement

FAA Safety and Quality Assurance

Change Display

Advertisement

Top Videos

Advertisement

Podcasts

AeroTwitter