by Tara Kalar Associate Legal Counsel MnDOT Office of Chief Counsel With an anticipated million unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) sold over the holiday season, aviation is experiencing an unprecedented boost…
Category: Aircraft
Lone Rock, Wisconsin, USA and Milan, Italy… The First Aerolab LoCamp Kit Takes Flight
Francesco Rizzi, founder of Aerolab Manufacturing, Inc. and designer of the Sport Camp series of Experimental/Amateur-built kit aircraft, and Ed Leineweber, managing member of Golden Age Aeroworks, LLC, d/b/a Aerolab…
Cirrus Hiring For Vision Jet Production
GRAND FORKS, N.D. – The Duluth, Minnesota-based manufacturer, Cirrus Aircraft, is actively seeking employees for its Grand Forks, North Dakota plant to fulfill orders for its Vision SF50 personal jet….
Piper Sells First Diesel Archer In Scandinavia
ODENSE, DENMARK – Piper Aircraft, Inc. announced December 8, 2015, the first sale of a factory new diesel engine Archer DX in Scandinavia. Billund Air Center (BAC), a leading flight…
Mooney Achieves First Flight of M10T POC
CHINO, CALIF. – Mooney International Corporation has successfully completed the first flight of the M10T Proof of Concept (POC) aircraft. The first flight was performed by test pilot Len Fox…
Honda Aircraft Receives Type Certification For HondaJet
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Honda Aircraft received type certification for the “HondaJet” from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on December 8, 2015. The FAA presented the type certificate to Honda Aircraft…
New FAA Recreational UAS/Drone Registration Program: Better Than Nothing?
by Russell A. Klingaman Attorney At Law On December 14, 2015, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued its interim final rule entitled “Registration And Marking Requirements For Small Unmanned Aircraft”…
Gimli Glider Reborn: Before the Miracle on the Hudson there was the Gimli Glider
On July 23, 1983, Air Canada Flight 143, a fully loaded Boeing 767 passenger jet, took off from Montreal with a stop over in Ottawa on to its final destination…
HondaJet Receives Type Certification From Federal Aviation Administration
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Dec. 9, 2015 — The HondaJet received type certification from the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Tuesday. Honda Aircraft Company and the FAA made the…
Cirrus Hiring Production Employees For Vision Jet
GRAND FORKS, N.D. – The Duluth, Minnesota-based manufacturer, Cirrus Aircraft, is actively seeking out employees for its Grand Forks, North Dakota plant to fulfill orders for its Vision SF50 personal jet….
Based Aircraft Defined!
by Hal Davis WisDOT Bureau of Aeronautics By their very nature, aircraft are commonly on the move. Sure, most aircraft have one airport they call “home,” but others may share…
Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association Supports Recycling of Boeing ecoDemonstrator 757 Using Environmental Best Practices
WASHINGTON, DC – In a notable collaboration project, the Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association (AFRA) recently joined with Boeing and an AFRA-accredited airplane demolition company to disassemble and recycle the Boeing…
B-29 “Doc” Exceeds Kickstarter Goal To Fund Flight Testing
WICHITA, KAN. – Following a 30-day Kickstarter campaign, “Doc,” the historic warbird that will soon become the second operational B-29 Superfortress, has achieved the additional funding needed to support its…
HondaJet Nears FAA Type Certification
Honda Aircraft Company concluding function and reliability testing LAS VEGAS – Honda Aircraft Company announced November 17, 2015, that it has completed all function and reliability (F&R) test conditions and…
Carried Through The Sky On Fine Threads
by Tyler Beckman The aerospace industry never ceases to be on the cutting edge of technology! If you want to know or see the future of technology in engineering and…