Content Archive: April 2021

FBOs

New Café Takes Flight at UK's Farnborough Airport

London-area Farnborough Airport has announced the opening of a new food establishment.
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Environment

Renewable Aviation Fuel Hub Expands in California

Tanker trucks can now directly load Neste sustainable aviation fuel at the Selby fuel distribution terminal near San Francisco, improving its distribution.
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Aircraft

Airbus Conducts Helicopter Refueling Trials with A400M Airlifter

The latest test campaign has achieved most of the objectives required to clear the A400M to refuel helicopters in flight.
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Aircraft

UK CAA Issues Foreign Carrier Permit to JetBlue

Planning to start transatlantic service this year, JetBlue becomes the first carrier to win a UK foreign operators’ certificate since Brexit.
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Bizav Activity Strengthens in North America, Europe

Business aviation picked up 46.2 percent year-over-year in March in North America and 15.8 percent in Europe.
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Regulations and Government

NASA Helicopter Flies on Mars

Ingenuity becomes the first aircraft to conduct controlled, powered flight on another planet.
Aircraft

Daher Projects 40% Climb in 2021 Aircraft Deliveries

Daher expects to deliver 75 aircraft—50 TBMs and 25 Kodiak 100s—this year, which would be a 41.5 percent increase over 2020 shipments.
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

First Global Hawk UAV for Japan Takes to the Air

Tokyo has ordered three examples of Northrop Grumman's high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air vehicle, along with associated ground equipment.
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Rotorcraft

French Military Orders More Super Pumas

Purchase of eight more Airbus H225Ms is part of French government's sitmulus plan to aid the aerospace industry.
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Environment

Atlantic Switches To Renewable Diesel at KLAX

Atlantic Aviation has fully replaced conventional fossil-based diesel fuel with renewable diesel at its Los Angeles International Airport FBO.
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