U.S. FAA

By Christine Boynton
The summit sought ideas to improve New York-area operations in summer 2023.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
UK startup Vertical Aerospace has received design organization approval from the the country’s Civil Aviation Authority.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Verizon won the FAA’s 15-year $2.4 billion FENS contract to establish a more modern network infrastructure.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
Billy Nolen’s March 28 remarks outline a massive undertaking for an industry that has pushed safety to nearly incomprehensible levels.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Ben Goldstein
Aura Aero is a French AAM) startup with ambitions of building a family of electric regional aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
With both securing certification and preparing for operations looming, Joby Aviation has beefed up its board of directors.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Sean Broderick
Industry stakeholders are being urged to go back to the basics to help minimize mistakes.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Guy Norris
The FAA airworthiness directive applies to around 330 U.S.-registered 737s.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
A U.S. push to curb a troubling trend of commercial aviation occurrences will lean heavily on existing safety risk-mitigation strategies.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Jens Flottau, Sean Broderick
The European safety agency’s certification concerns have contributed to the latest 777X delay, but EASA, the FAA and Boeing seem to have found a path forward.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
FAA approval of the last two Boeing 737 MAX variants is “progressing,” a top Boeing official said.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Garrett Reim
Lockheed Martin Ventures has invested in electric seaglider startup Regent to speed up the development of a military variant of the company’s aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
The newly appointed CEO of Jetson predicts that some of the earliest adopters of electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles will be private owners.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Jens Flottau, Sean Broderick
EASA Executive Director Patrick Ky says much progress has been made toward joint certification of the Boeing 777X with the U.S. FAA.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Henry Canaday
Attendees at ARSA’s annual conference outlined challenges the MRO industry still faces in training, technician shortages and regulatory policies.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By David Casey
Aeromexico and Volaris are optimistic that Mexico’s Category 1 safety rating will be restored by FAA within the next six months.
Airports & Networks

By Sean Broderick
The fiscal 2024 bill requests $1.7 billion for the FAA’s Aviation Safety division—a 7% increase over the current year’s enacted total.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Karen Walker
In the seven weeks between mid-December and early February, there were six runway incursion incidents in the US.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
The NTSB is reiterating its stance that new U.S. safety management system (SMS) requirements should also cover repair stations.
MRO

By Sean Broderick
A push to collect more data to help mitigate safety risks has helped justify a pending FAA proposal to mandate cockpit voice recorders with 25-hr. durations.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
Deliveries were paused for more than a month as Boeing was forced to rework airworthiness limitations math.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
The seed of the idea for the fixed-wing CX300 was planted in early 2022.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Sean Broderick
Industry will spend the next several months attempting to find out and, ideally, develop short-term risk-mitigation strategies.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
The fiscal 2024 bill requests $1.7 billion for FAA’s Aviation Safety (AVS)—a 7% increase over the current year’s enacted total.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Ben Goldstein
Archer Aviation has announced that assembly of the first nonconforming prototype of its Midnight electric air taxi is nearly complete.
Advanced Air Mobility