Also: Pilot Recruitment, WAI, Iran/Boeing, Pakistan v ATR, Turbine Conversions, Air Traffic Services, Israeli F-35s

Spencer Suderman has informed ANN that he plans to make a third - and final - attempt at the world record for the number of turns in an inverted flat spin either late next year or early in 2018.

The airshow performer sent an email to ANN outlining his plans in which he said, "I just acquired the plane for this - a Pitts S-1C with an O-360 engine. The goal is to climb to 30,000' and spin 120 times!" U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey went down off the coast of Okinawa Tuesday with five people on board. All have been rescued, according to military officials. According to a statement from the Third Marine Expeditionary Force, the five crew members were rescued after the aircraft landed in shallow water off the coastline of Camp Schwab around 10 p.m. local time. NASA has updated its schedule for launching manned mission from the United States, and it indicates a slip in the date for the first SpaceX manned Dragon mission. According to NASA's Commercial Crew blog, the schedule now has SpaceX flying its unmanned demonstration mission in November of next year, with the first manned mission slated for May of 2018, Boeing, meanwhile is scheduled for an orbital test in June of 2018, with the first manned mission of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft in August, 2018. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!

Airborne 12.15.16 is chock full of info in this Daily News Episode, Thursday, December 15th, 2016... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Hosts Brianne Cross and Christopher Odom, and supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalists Tom Patton, and Earl Downs, this episode covers:

• Spencer Suderman Will Attempt To Break His Own Inverted Flat Spin Record
• MV-22 Osprey Down Off Coast Of Japan
• Hillsboro Aero Academy, Horizon Air Launch Pilot Recruitment Program
• SpaceX Delays First Manned Dragon Flight
• Aero-Community: Women In Aviation International
• Iran Deal Won't Stop Planned Boeing Production Cut 
• Pakistan CAA To Examine Pakistan International Airlines ATR Aircraft 
• Turbine Conversions, LTD. Selects PT6A-21 Engines For Cessna 206 Conversion 
• FAA Taps Regional Administrator For VP Air Traffic Services 
• AMC Enables Delivery Of Israel's First F-35s    

Get Comprehensive, Real-Time, 24/7 coverage of the latest aviation and aerospace stories anytime, at aero-news.net. And be sure to join us again next week for the next edition of "Airborne Unlimited" here on Aero-TV. Thanks for watching. See you, again, tomorrow!

© 2016, Aero-News Network, Inc., ALL Rights Reserved.

FMI: www.airbornetv.net, www.aero-news.net, www.aero-tv.net, www.youtube.com/aerotvnetwork, https://vimeo.com/aerotvnetwork, http://twitter.com/AeroNews