Avia Blog

In an effort to right its struggling jumbo freighter, Boeing airplane programmes vice president, Pat Shanahan, will shepherd the aircraft through flight…

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued four urgent safety recommendations to the FAA following uncontained engine failures in four…

Jet Aviation Hong Kong has extended the scope of its Federal Aviation Administration type ratings to include Boeing 737-700/800 and Gulfstream G200 aircraft

Frontier Airlines is to equip its Embraer E-Jets fleet with Aircell’s Gogo in-flight Internet system, but says it will continue to research connectivity…

SR Technics will provide maintenance services under deal that finances also spare engines for Air Berlin.

Eurocopter’s Brazil subsidiary will upgrade 34 Brazilian Army Aviation AS365K Panther helicopters with new engines and avionics.

Eurocopter upgrade will keep five more Cougar transport helicopters in service another 20 years.

Allegiant plans to place 13 MD-82/3s of 18 total aircraft purchased in service by the end of 2011.

In this week’s edition of Check 6, Amy Butler, Graham Warwick and Robert Wall discuss: The Fiscal 2010 unfunded priority list from the U.S. military services; NASA, lost in space; and Electronic Warfare, are capabilities slipping?

Though well executed and effective, Iridium’s $5 billion satcom network failed. But bought for $25 million, it’s now a success with users including the Pentagon, oil rigs, and aircraft.