Following growing objections from the general aviation community, the Transportation Security Administration relaxed some security restrictions that went i
A provision that would establish a general aviation working group to advise the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on GA security issues is conta
A Transportation Security Administration directive mandating badging at airports serving commercial air carriers is scheduled to go into effect June 1.
Forty of FlightSafety International’s full flight simulators located at 15 learning centers in North America have been qualified under the EASA flight simu
The governor of Montana is the latest to weigh in on a controversial Transportation Security Administration (TSA) directive that would impose new security
Following bungled security inspections of general aviation facilities at Nashville International Airport and Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks
The Transportation Security Administration is revising its “Operation Playbook” security program, which seeks to work with airline airports used by general
In what is a record number of comments on a TSA rulemaking, aviation industry proponents flooded the Transportation Security Administration docket for the
NBAA, AOPA, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) and the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) late last week sent a joint letter to the
NBAA’s 20th Annual Schedulers & Dispatchers Conference, held in Long Beach, Calif., last week, attracted fewer attendees and exhibitors than last year’
The TSA yesterday announced that it will hold five official public hearings next month for the business aviation community to provide feedback on the agenc
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) new rule that requires general aviation pilots to file passenger names and other information to government offi
Gulfstream has contracted with Aircraft Security & Alert Systems, the sole provider of custom-designed Medeco locks for aircraft, to develop an advanced lo
The December 3 town hall meeting planned by the Transportation Security Administration to hear what general aviation operators think about the Large Aircra
Earlier this week the NTSB announced that it would hold a three-day public hearing beginning February 3 to examine helicopter EMS (HEMS) accidents, and now
NBAA and AOPA late last week sent a joint letter to the TSA asking the agency to double the 60-day comment window for the Large Aircraft Security Program p
The Transportation Security Administration was scheduled to publish in the Federal Register late last month a proposed set of regulations that, if enacted,
Seven years after 9/11, general aviation is still vulnerable to acts of terrorism because of inaction by the White House, according to a report prepared by
The FAA early last month published a new notam requiring N-registered aircraft with an mtow of more than 100,309 pounds to obtain an operational waiver fro
AirLock Aviation Security Systems has developed a programmable electronic door and access-panel locking system that records all uses of the locks to gain a