2024 Corporate Aviation Leadership Summit

Jessica Reed

News and issues regarding all manner of civil and military rotorcraft and their powerplants, including helicopters, tilt rotors and unmanned air vehicles.

News and information on safety procedures and concerns.

News about simulators and training procedures, as well as workforce.

Essential news and analysis on the defense aerospace business. Your trusted source for new and ongoing programs and requirements in military aircraft (manned and unmanned), engines, avionics, weapons and associated systems, including ground-based air defense.

The first class of special missions aviators graduated in December

U.S. Air Force Taps P1AR for 5-Year Training Contract

Matt Thurber

New developments and products in avionics, specifically about aircraft electronics in the cockpit.

News and issues relating to business, corporate and private aviation, primarily regarding turbine-engine-powered airplanes and helicopters. Subjects include aircraft, engines, maintenance, operations, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security, and training.

The new night-vision goggle is available for orders

ASU Unveils Lightweight E3 Night-vision Goggle

The three-axis autopilot features automatic recovery to near-level flight attitude

Enstrom Certifying Genesys Autopilot in 480B

Curt Epstein

It represents the third program of its kind in the U.S.

Utah Medevac Program Aims To Save Stricken Service Dogs

News about significant aircraft accidents and information from accident reports.

Helicopter Pilot Details Tailboom Separation Crash in NTSB Safety Symposium

Helo Pilot Relives Dark Day, on Road to Recovery

Kerry Lynch

Increase comes as attention to safety intensifies and SMS rule looms

AviationManuals Sees Uptick in SMS Business

Global helicopter activity was up almost 20 percent in 2023

Argus: Prism SMS Success and the 2024 Helicopter Market

Gregory Polek

News about bills, laws, regulations and other governmental decisions affecting aviation and aerospace. Topics include FAA re-authorizations, taxes on fuel and aviation activities, environmental legislation, ICAO decisions, governmental mediation of labor conflicts and World Trade Organization disputes and decisions.

News and issues relating to international air transport and cargo carriers, national airlines and regional airlines, including aircraft, engines, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security and training.

Employees lack awareness of the basics in reporting safety concerns.

Boeing Missing Key Elements of Safety Culture: FAA Report

The company will offer its own equipment at a discount

Aircare Offers Trade-ins For Medical Diagnostic Units

The new device enables safer hoisting of unconscious victims

Vita Aerospace Unveiling Rapid Extraction Device

Charles Alcock

News and developments about everything that goes into the cabin of an aircraft, from floor coverings to headliners, with a special emphasis on in-flight entertainment, communications and other electronics for passengers. If it is in the cabin of an aircraft, it’s covered here.

Rotorcraft accounted for the strongest earnings growth across the Airbus group

Airbus Seeks To Boost Output and Performance

Mark Huber

Calls it an 'insult' to the memory of 33 killed

Union Balks at Bringing Super Pumas Back to North Sea

Stuart “Kipp” Lau

Trying out new ways to fly is a sure way to recharge a pilot's batteries

AINsight: The Bucket List for Professional Pilots

Gordon Gilbert

Pilots can fly without wearing shoulder harnesses above 10,000 feet

Transport Canada Reissues Shoulder Harness Exemption

Sarah Rose

News and issues concerning general aviation, specifically airplanes and helicopters powered by piston and alternative engines (i.e., non-turbine powered aircraft). Subjects include aircraft, engines, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security and training.

First orders set to ship in six to eight weeks

Firefighting Radio System Now Available in Latin America

News, issues, personnel, equipment and developments about air traffic management.

Aircraft receive conflicting transmissions as Somalia and Somaliland fight over airspace control

Weaponized ATC Calls Threaten African Air Safety

News and issues relating to the aerospace industry that are related to the science, engineering and business of flight in space involving civil, industrial and military applications, and similar topics related to flight in the atmosphere of the Earth that are not covered more directly by other AINonline subject channels. In other words, both astronautical and aeronautical subjects, except for those aeronautical topics that are specifically covered elsewhere on this website.

Paul Ashcroft is senior v-p of Asia-Pacific for aviation asset group AerFin

Royal Aeronautical Society Appoints New Head of Singapore Branch

A corporate version of the H130 and a mockup of the H145 are on show in Singapore 

Airbus Displays Innovation in Twin and Single Helicopters

An AFCS mismatch triggered an uncommanded yaw

AAIB: AW189 Incident Crew Did Not Understand Its AFCS

News and issues concerning the aviation charter and fractional-ownership industries and markets, including company announcements, regulations, new developments and labor issues.

Safety