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April 9, 2013 - 7:01am
Remember the spate of sleeping controllers and the angst it all caused at 800 Independence Avenue and 1200 New Jersey Avenue?
April 8, 2013 - 2:15pm
Airbus broke ground on its new A320-family final assembly line in Mobile, Ala., on Monday, during a ceremony attended by the company’s top leadership, state and local politicians, diplomats and aerospace industry executives.
April 5, 2013 - 4:30pm
The results of AIN's 2013 FBO Survey were announced in the beginning of April. The top rated FBOs in the Americas were spread across the United States. Take a look at their scores below and be sure to explore the full results of AIN's 2013 FBO Survey.
April 5, 2013 - 4:14pm
The FAA said on Friday that it will delay the planned closure of 149 contract ATC towers by 10 weeks to June 15.
April 5, 2013 - 3:33pm
Boeing took a significant step toward returning the 787 to service on Friday, when it flew Dreamliner Line Number 86 on a one-hour, 49-minute mission to demonstrate conformity of its battery system modification to U.S. certification authorities.
April 5, 2013 - 11:43am
Standards organization RTCA will establish a new group in the next several weeks to expedite the development of standards that will enable unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to fly in unrestricted airspace in the U.S. The new group—Special Committee 228—will further the work of an earlier group that is being discontinued because of concern over its slow progress.
April 4, 2013 - 2:35pm
International Airlines Group (IAG) confirmed on Thursday that it has reached an agreement with Boeing that calls for the conversion of options on eighteen 787s to a firm order.
April 2, 2013 - 6:20am
Maybe for general aviation to survive, we need more disruption. An article published in Wired magazine (Clayton Christensen Wants to Transform Capitalism, by Jeff Howe) discussed how successful companies often fail to recognize that new companies with “disruptive innovations” are about to take over their marketplace.
April 1, 2013 - 4:39pm
Boeing 787 Line Number 86 took off from Paine Field in Everett, Wash., at 11:19 am local time today for a “routine” test flight to address ongoing systems upgrades separate from those related to the airplane’s battery.
