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Proposal allows EASA Member States to define zones in their territory where either drone operations are prohibited or restricted.

Thanks to prodding by the Canadian Business Aviation Association, the current runway rehabilitation schedule is now scheduled to end on or about May 16.

In the five decades since being established, it has made more than 14,500 recommendations to improve transportation safety.

Runway 4R/22L at Boston Logan Airport is scheduled to be closed from May 15 through late June to enable the repaving and marking of the runway.

Draft Advisory Circular would apply to pilots, certificate holders, operators and program managers conducting datalink communication operations.

Audit objectives will be to assess FAA’s processes for granting waivers, and its risk-based oversight of UAS operators with waivers.

Overall European air traffic is expected to increase by 14 percent between 2016 and 2023, according to Eurocontrol.

Turbine business airplane accidents worldwide claimed the lives of fewer people in the first quarter—16 compared to 25 in the same period last year.

GSIP was launched in October 2014 to study how aviation safety data are used and to produce toolkits that can be used by aircraft operators.

EASA's rulemaking would address pilot procedures for maintenance check flights.

Advisory circulars provide guidance for business aircraft operators in meeting the latest civil aviation regulatory amendments.

Approval marks an extension to ExecuJet’s maintenance capabilities already in place for the Embraer ERJ-135/145, Legacy 600/650 and Phenom 100.

Approved operators may now use Rectrix BED as their departure point for non-stop flights to DCA.

The company will expand its capacity later this year with a new 43,000-sq-ft MRO facility in Macau and a third 41,500-sq-ft hangar in Singapore.

Miami is the latest ATC facility to go on line with digital communications, bringing to 55 the number of airport towers operating with Data Comm.

Even though rule will be in effect individual state approvals must be given before turbine single operations in instrument conditions can actually begin.

There were 406 total accidents (jets and turboprops) between 2010 and 2016.

In one instance, an ADS-B OUT system ground test created a false airborne target that generated a TCAS resolution advisory on an airliner on approach.

Deadlines for the new requirements begin in 2018.

GE said that operating its helicopter from Signature Flight Support at Boston Logan International Airport “has been positive.”

Rule allows pilots of airplanes with enhanced flight vision systems to fly certain IFR approaches all the way to landing “in lieu of natural vision”

The city said it will own the helipad, not use federal funding to build it, determine who can and cannot use the pad and what the user fees will be.

Hydrocodone, hydromorphone, oxymorphone and oxycodone would be added to the FAA’s urine testing requirements for commercial pilots and aircraft mechanics.

The NTSB issued an urgent recommendation concerning unsafe wiring on Piper PA-31T Cheyennes that might lead to arcing and fires.

Several major rulemaking actions are scheduled to be adopted in 2017 that will affect general and business aviation operations in the U.S. and abroad.

According to preliminary statistics researched by AIN, there were 12 accidents of U.S.-registered business jets last year versus 20 in 2015.

The rule requires changes be made to some requirements under Parts 91 and 135 to align pilot operating rules with the new Part 23 airplane rules.

The agency noted that pilots are inadvertently changing selections of concentrically centered knobs with some regularity.

ICAO had recommended that all turbine airplanes in excess of 12,500 pounds mtow be equipped with a wind shear warning system.

The mandate applies to newly manufactured, commercially-operated turbine planes weighing less than 12,500 pounds.