Content Archive: December 2014

Thousands of traditional ILS, VOR and NDB approaches are still operating.

Lawmakers provided $15.84 billion in FY2015 funding for the FAA, and $440 million more than the White House request of $15.4 billion.

User fees are not the way to support the National Airspace System, business aviation group says.

Plans to take first airplane in 2018

ASTAR gives pilots specific speed information and guidance so that airplanes can be more precisely spaced.

Trophy awarded annually to a living American for “significant public service of enduring value to aviation in the U.S.”

The U.S. Army has installed the first of five ground-based sense and avoid radar systems to track flights of unmanned aircraft in the U.S.

Authorization will allow commercialization of the sugarcane-based fuel in blends of up to 10 percent.

Jets were certified by the FAA and Transport Canada late last year and by EASA in September.

Military aircraft have experienced a skyrocketing climb in the number of collisions.