Matt Thurber

The buyer of the first customer-delivered Bell 505 Jet Ranger X is Scott Urschel, owner of Pylon Aviation, Chandler, Arizona.

The portable ISR system weighs about 80 pounds and can be installed in helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes.

The Universal Avionics InSight flight deck will help upgrade aircraft meet modern avionics mandates.

Bell Helicopter XworX engineers are forging ahead on testing of Bell 525 systems in preparation for the resumption of flight testing.

The collective pull down system lowers the collective automatically in a low rotor rpm situation.

The Redlands, Calif., battery manufacturer's sealed lead-acid battery has been selected as standard equipment for the Bell 407 GXP.

Airbus Helicopters customers are benefitting from the company's switch to an electronic business model.

CMC is offering demonstrations of its new helicopter cockpit demonstrator at Heli-Expo 2017.

Orders include some from 20 new customers, five of which are new helicopter owners or operators.

Research is accelerating on electric passenger-carrying aerial vehicles, possibly leading to new ways to travel in urban environments.

Bell's selection of the True Blue Power TB-17 lithium-ion main-ship battery should help lower operating costs and improve availability.

This year's Heli-Expo features the new HAI Connect meetup area with demonstrations and presentations, new product demos and hot topic seminars.

Elliott Aviation's Garmin G5000 upgrade for the Citation Excel/XLS will shave about 175 pounds from the jet's empty weight.

Garmin's ADS-B solutions for older jets can save owners and operators tens of thousands of dollars.

The Mid-Canada Mod Center STC adds Fans 1/A+ capability to the Challenger 604 as a standalone upgrade.

The all-you-can-fly charter provider will soon offer flights to San Diego's Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport.

Auditing firms want to clarify the difference between audited charter operators and those for which they provide information only.

Despite the FAA's agreement to allow Santa Monica Airport to be closed in 2028, NBAA and others are fighting to keep the airport open.

Bell's next tiltrotor design is 93 percent done and conducting ground testing in preparation for first flight around September 2017.

Pilot training is entering a new era thanks to rapid advances in technology and lower cost training tools.

Operators can see price reductions of as much as 18 percent.

AIN Senior Editor Matt Thurber spends a day in all-attitude jet upset training at Aviation Performance Solutions.

Developers of aviation applications have been busy adding features and coming up with new ways to present information.

The charter operator's scheduled service between Santa Monica, San Jose and Carlsbad, Calif., has been delayed.

Do we truly need all FAA regulations, or have some run their course?

Under an agreement between the FAA and the city of Santa Monica, the city's airport will be closed permanently at the end of 2028.

The useful lifetime of the CH-47 Chinook military helicopter could be extended with installation of dual-use Archangel sensors.

The National Air Transportation Association is holding a series of Air Charter Town Hall meetings throughout the U.S. this year.

The Supreme Court elected not to hear a case involving a flight-sharing company's attempt to offer services to the general public.

The Swiss Rotor Solutions modification for the Airbus AS350/H125 helicopter improves pilot field of view when looking down by 10 times.