After more than a decade of congressional prodding, the FAA is issuing new rules mandating drug and alcohol testing for shops it oversees on non-U.S. soil.
Several commercial airline flights in the northern Caribbean briefly entered holding patterns due to debris from the test flight of SpaceX’s Starship rocket.
The FAA plans to conduct additional flight testing with eVTOL OEMs as it works to develop unified performance-based design rules for vertiports and heliports.
Wisk’s Vice President for Certification Cindy Comer recently caught up with Aviation week to discuss the company’s progress toward its G-1 certification basis.
In his confirmation hearing, Sean Duffy pledged to support familiar bipartisan aviation programs and indicated he would lean on agency experts on key issues.
A firefighting Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper was taken out of service Jan. 9 after it was struck by a drone while battling the Palisades fire in Los Angeles.
A total of $332 million in FAA grants will fund upgrades at 171 airports across 32 states under the latest round of the Airport Infrastructure Grants program.
“This is a monumental milestone and a glimpse of what’s just around the corner for New Glenn’s first launch,” said Jarrett Jones, senior VP, New Glenn.
A “vendor technology issue” briefly grounded American Airlines flights on Dec. 24, the disruption landing in the middle of a busy holiday travel period.
The new ruling limits electronic access to Work-in-Progress aircraft documents, a change made as part of implementation of its Registry Modernization System.
