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An AeroVironment Puma AE launched from the flight deck of the Coast Guard cutter Healy, under way in the Arctic Ocean.

The estimated contract completion date is Dec. 31, 2016.

Cologne-based Germanwings cancelled 116 flights.

During the project's second phase, Darpa plans to select two proposals to advance to detailed design, fabrication and assembly.

The air navigation service provider of Hungary plans to introduce controller-pilot datalink communications next February.

EASA approval expected in the third quarter, with delivery to Qatar Airways to follow.

The vehicle experienced a "flight anomaly" shortly after launch on August 25.

The Bank of China-owned company placed its largest-ever order with Boeing.

Job actions accounted for 13.6 percent of total en route delays in 2013.

Profits more than doubled from the same period last year.

The Army plans to upgrade existing Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawks with analog cockpit instrumentation to UH-60M digital standard.

The three new aircraft will join 18 Block 30 Global Hawks the service earlier planned to retire.

The electric airplane flew up to 3,300 feet above sea level.

The 75 aircraft without cracks have returned to service.

The Bárðarbunga volcano “shows heightened or escalating unrest with increased potential of eruption,” according to the Icelandic Meteorological Office.

Manned and unmanned aircraft are participating in the intelligence-gathering and humanitarian missions.

The technology will be installed at six Italian airports starting next year.

Sikorsky and Boeing will advance the SB-1 Defiant; Bell’s proposal is the V-280 Valor tiltrotor.

The latest Notam succeeds succeeds the agency’s earlier guidance, which prohibited flights over Iraq at or below 30,000 feet.

The “transaction implementation agreement,” which the airlines valued a €1.76 billion ($2.35 billion), is intended to restore the airline to profitability.

The plan will include milestones, timelines, metrics and costs, by location, to deliver capability in the one-to-three year time frame in these areas.

The service plans to select two proposed designs to advance to fabrication and flight-testing.

Extreme cold most likely caused a lithium-ion battery on an All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 to malfunction in January 2013, according to one report.

The Army is considering what platform is best suited to conduct airborne electronic attack in the future.

The contract will cover air traffic and approach services below 4,000 feet around the airport, including maintenance of the associated infrastructure.