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Gama Aviation's design team launches Garmin G500H STC

Gama Aviation Plc, the global aviation services company, is pleased to announce the award of an EASA STC for installation of the Garmin G500H EFIS into the Bell 206B helicopter. The G500H system is certified for day/night VFR operations and brings substantial improvements in situational awareness with a large multi-function colour moving map, H.S.I, full-time wind vector and many additional fea...

Boeing Business Jets Announces Orders for Two BBJ MAX 8 Airplanes

Boeing Business Jets announced at the 2016 Farnborough International Air Show today, the sale of two BBJ MAX 8 airplanes. The recently booked BBJ MAX 8s were ordered by two separate undisclosed customers, one customer based in North America and the other in Asia. “The BBJ MAX and its unmatched capability and comfort continues to be a very successful airplane for us and we are...

Norwegian signs first ever charter agreements in the U.S.

Norwegian signs charter contracts with Apple Vacations and Funjet Vacations to operate routes from the United States to the Caribbean and Mexico. Norwegian has signed charter agreements with Apple Vacations and Funjet Vacations for the winter season 2017. Norwegian will station three Boeing 737-800 aircraft in Milwaukee and Chicago and operate routes to Mexico and the Caribbean from December 20...

Nextant Aerospace Reaches Significant 400XTi Milestone

Nextant Aerospace, which produces the 400XTi – the world’s only remanufactured business jet, announced today that the 400XTi program had surpassed several key program milestones related to market penetration and global operating experience. “The 400XTi has reached a monumental tipping point in the marketplace,” stated Jay Heublein, Executive Vice President for Nextant Ae...

Sikorsky S-76D™ VIP Helicopter Receives Expanded EASA Validation

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has completed a second phase of validations for new capabilities and expanded performance of the Sikorsky S-76D™ helicopter. Sikorsky, A Lockheed Martin Company , made the announcement at the Farnborough International Air Show and expects to make its first delivery to a European VIP customer this year. The newly validated capabilities focus on ca...

Bell 525 Relentless prototype crashes

Bell Helicopter has confirmed one of its two 525 Relentless prototypes crashed while conducting developmental flight test operations, fatally injuring two of its flight test crew. The bright orange panted 525, Bell’s first Relentless prototype to fly, N525TA, came down in a field south-east of the manufacturer’s Arlington, Texas, Xworks facility in Ellis County before midday local t...

Boeing Said Poised to Win $3.5 Billion in Orders for New Planes

Boeing Co. is in discussions with Spain’s Air Europa Lineas Aereas and German tour operator TUI AG for orders totaling $3.5 billion at list prices, according to people familiar with the planemaker’s plans. Air Europa is in line for 20 737 Max jets valued at $2.2 billion, with TUI slated to convert 10 options on the upgraded narrow-body into firm orders, people familiar with the...

Biggest RC Airplane in The Word Boeing 747-400 Virgin Atlantic Airliner

Richard Branson would be proud, here is a model of a Virgin Atlantic airplane. This plane is just amazing it’s a model: RC Boeing 747-400 from Adi Pitz, Wingspan: 4,95m, Length: 5,43m. Thanks to RC Media World At the rate that remote control replicas are going, it isn’t going to be long before somebody is trying to launch a full-size aircraft via remote control. This time, we che...

Sounding an SOS on looming pilot shortages

After coping with terrorism, bankruptcies and consolidation, the largest US airlines are facing a new problem: They may start running out of pilots in about three years. That looming pilot deficit will soar to 15,000 by 2026, according to a study by the University of North Dakota’s Aviation Department, as more captains reach the mandatory retirement age of 65 and fewer young people choose...

Virgin Galactic to restart flight tests of commercial spaceship

Virgin Galactic Ltd., the commercial space company founded by billionaire Richard Branson, is set to resume test flights next month in a new spaceship that replaces the craft that crashed in a fatal accident two years ago. The company is due to complete ground tests in August and move to testing the vessel in the skies while attached to an aircraft, according to Jonathan Firth, vice president a...

US House passes bill to block Iran aircraft sales

The House of Representatives has passed a measure that would block US aircraft sales to Iran, potentially undercutting a Boeing deal with Tehran worth up to $25 billion. Two amendments approved to an appropriations bill from Representative Peter Roskam would ban sales from Boeing and from European rival Airbus, amid concerns the aircraft could be used for military purposes, the congressman said...

Boeing, Embraer Unveil Newest ecoDemonstrator Aircraft

Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Embraer S.A. [BM&F Bovespa: EMBR3, NYSE: ERJ] unveiled the next phase of the Boeing ecoDemonstrator program today. The program expands Boeing and Embraer’s cooperation agreement and will test technologies to improve airplane environmental performance and accelerate their introduction into the marketplace. An Embraer E170 will serve as the flying testbed...