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Sat, Oct 18, 2025

Ticket Sales NOW OPEN for 2025 Affordable Flying Expo!

Check out https://affordableflying.net/attend/ Right Away and Get YOUR Tickets To the Affordable Flying Expo!

OK.... with a little over a month to go, it’s time to get serious! Thanks to the folks at Sun n Fun, we have a highly professional online ticketing apparatus at our disposal for next month’s Affordable Flying Expo. And we have other good news... use the code “AFE2025” and you can get $5 OFF the adult ticket price of $15 or even more for a three day pass. After an insane amount of work on the part of the ANN crew and more than a little hand holding by the event experts at Sun n Fun, the Expo is shaping up. We have an amazing series of seminars and forums in the works as well as a LIVE Friday Night Town Hall in which we will be dissecting MOSAIC in as great a detail as we can muster. 

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Sat, Oct 18, 2025

DJI Fights Against Proposed US Drone Ban

Drone Maker Appeals Pentagon’s Decision to Label It a ‘Chinese Military Company’

Further fueling a year-long legal feud, world-famous drone maker DJI is taking its ‘Chinese Military Company’ label back to the Pentagon in hopes of regaining access to the US market. Judges decided just last month to uphold the Department of Defense’s claims that the company is tied to the Chinese Communist Party despite dismissing much of the evidence.

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Sat, Oct 18, 2025

Heroic Helicopter Rescue Of Dog Occurs After Fall In Arizona Canyon

Taken To Emergency Vet Clinic For Treatment

Deputies from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office performed a helicopter hoist to rescue a dog that was badly injured after falling into a canyon near Battleship Rock, a prominent peak in the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix, Arizona.

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Sat, Oct 18, 2025

USDOT Spared In First Round Of Shutdown Layoffs

ATC Will Receive Partial Payday, NATCA Head Responds

The first round of layoffs resulting from the government shutdown arrived on October 10 and at least for now, Department of Transportation employees can relax as the RIFs, or reductions in force, were targeted to other agencies, according to a court filing by the Trump administration.

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Sat, Oct 18, 2025

Airborne 10.17.25: Gryder Airport/Gun Arrest, Hegseth C32 Probs, Hartzell Update

Also: Helicopter Dog Rescue, USDOT Spared In Layoffs, Guardian Avionics, Isaacman Back In Running?

The name ’Dan Gryder’ is fairly well known to many in aviation... Whether you like him or not. ANN is examining Police reports that describe an armed confrontation that took place at 147 Sky Harbor Way, Griffin, Georgia, on October 12th between Dan and a resident he accused of blocking the taxiway with an RV (which was reportedly a regular occurrence)... and which allegedly developed into an assault on Gryder by fellow resident Tracy Darrell Wallace the day before. The U.S. Air Force C-32 transporting Secretary of War Pete Hegseth from Europe back to the states declared a general emergency over the Atlantic Ocean west of Ireland after departing from Brussels where he attended a meeting of NATO Defense Ministers. The air crew immediately performed a rapid descent from 35,000 feet to 10,000 feet, a maneuver that is consistent wit

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Sat, Oct 18, 2025

AIRO Group, Bullet To Form JV For Interceptor Drones

Brings Combat-Proven Ukrainian Tech To U.S. Manufacturing And NATO Markets

AIRO Group Holdings, the Chicago, Illinois-based developer of UAVs and eVTOL aircraft, and Bullet, a Ukrainian developer of turbojet-powered unmanned interceptor systems, announced they signed an LoI, or Letter of Intent, to form a 50-50 joint venture to produce and deploy Bullet’s combat-proven fixed-wing UAV technology across the U.S., NATO defense markets, and Ukraine.

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Sat, Oct 18, 2025

Updated: Gryder Arrested On Gun Charge, Cites ‘Georgia Stand Your Ground’ Law

Incidents Allegedly Occured As Described in Police Report(s) 25-005809 and 25-005818

The name ’Dan Gryder’ is fairly well known to many in aviation.... Whether you like him or not. ANN is examining Police reports that describe an armed confrontation that took place at 147 Sky Harbor  Way, Griffin GA, on October 12th between Dan and a resident he accused of blocking the taxiway with an RV (which was reportedly a regular occurrence)... and which allegedly developed into an assault on Gryder by fellow resident Tracy Darrell Wallace the day before. When Wallace reportedly approached Gryder the next day ‘to offer apologies (according to Wallace’ testimony), Gryder reported to ANN that he felt threatened and invoked Georgia’s ‘Stand Your Ground’ law, showing Wallace a small handgun on his own property and allegedly threatening its use if Wallace continued his approach.

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Sat, Oct 18, 2025

Airborne 10.15.25: Phantom 3500 Confounds, Citation CJ3 Gen2 TC, True Blue Power

Also: Kodiak 100 Joins USFS, Innovative Solutions & Support Renamed, Gulfstream Selects Honeywell, Special Olympics Airlift 

The Phantom 3500 mockup made an appearance where the futuristic BizJet continued to make some aggressive claims for the future... so aggressive AND impressive that they already have an order books numbering in the hundreds... Textron‘s Cessna Citation CJ3 Gen2 has gained type certification from the FAA, which brings the most comprehensive Citation Gen2 investment to the market. Customer feedback reportedly drove the enhancements to the aircraft, including autothrottle, an additional 4.5 inches of legroom for pilots, and a fully customizable cabin environment. At NBAA-BACE 2025, ANN dropped in on the folks at True Blue Power to see what’s keeping a number of high-power jets energized of late... including a number of Gulfstreams. And... At NBAA-BACE 2025, ANN dropped in on the folks at True Blue Powe

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Sat, Oct 18, 2025

Boeing Sued Over Fatal Jeju Air Crash

Families Allege that Outdated Hydraulics Were to Blame For the 179 Deaths

The families of 14 people killed in the crash of a Jeju Air B737-800 late last year are suing Boeing for alleged defects in the aircraft’s electric and hydraulic systems. While the investigation is ongoing, preliminary reports indicate that a bird strike and pilot decision-making are potential contributing factors.

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Sat, Oct 18, 2025

Airborne-NextGen 10.16.25: Cops Shooting Drones?, Lilium Patents, Trains v UAVs

Also: Sikorsky Intro's U-Hawk, EAA On UAS-BVLOS, Joby Airshow Demo, Hospital Vertiport

German regulators are pushing forward a law that would allow police officers to shoot drones out of the sky. The legislation follows an unexpected increase in sightings of unidentified drones over major airports, hospitals, and other facilities. The draft law gives police the authority to destroy drones that pose an “immediate threat” to safety. Archer Aviation, developer of eVTOL aircraft, announced that it won the competitive process to acquire the patent portfolio of Lilium GmbH consisting of about 300 advanced air mobility patent assets with a bid of €18M. The assets include IP relating to prime innovations such as high-voltage systems, battery management, advanced aircraft design, flight controls, electric engines, propellers, and ducted fans. The International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers - Transp

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