While flight hours are down an estimated 20 to 30 percent from last year, business aviation accidents declined by nearly 50 percent during the first three
Honeywell yesterday received TSO approval for SmartRunway and SmartLanding, which are both software upgrades for the company’s Mark V and Mark VII enhanced
The FAA yesterday issued a Safety Alert for Operators (SAFO) that addresses pilot fatigue countermeasures in Part 121 and 135 short-haul operations, though
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) “is one step closer to issuing security regulations for repair stations,” according to the Modification an
President Obama on Thursday announced that he intends to nominate Erroll Southers as the fifth administrator of the Transportation Security Administration
Yesterday, at a hearing held by the House Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection, general aviation proponents had an opportu
Brian Delauter, most recently the federal security director at Savannah (Ga.) International Airport, has been selected to serve as the Transportation Secur
Under a Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill for fiscal year 2010 that was passed by the House last week, lawmakers lauded the Transportatio
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) appears to be taking seriously the 7,000-plus submitted comments opposing the proposed large aircraft secu
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General released a report on “TSA’s Role in General Aviation Security” that concludes: “We determ
An amendment to the Transportation Security Administration Authorization Act approved last week will allow the aviation industry to review and provide inpu
Four men and one woman aligned with Plane Stupid, an activist group opposed to airport expansion in Europe, cut through the chain-link perimeter fence on t
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