News

ANSP

FABEC 2020 report reviews ANSP pandemic impact

15th July 2021

FABEC 2020 performance report reports a 56.8% traffic downturn, more than EUR2.45 billion revenue losses and major increases in environmental performance.

RAF progress on cloud-data, drone swarms and synthetic training

14th July 2021

The progression of technologies such as cloud-data processing, unmanned swarming systems and synthetic training environments have been listed as targets for the UK’s Royal Air Force

Lockheed

NASA retires world’s last flying S-3B Viking

14th July 2021

NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, has retired its sole Lockheed S-3B Viking, which was the last example of the type flying anywhere in the world

Scottish Airports

Scottish Airports urge government to match English travel rules

14th July 2021

The industry wants a “fair and consistent” four-nations approach to the safe reopening of aviation across the UK

Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB)

AAIB reveals cause of on-stand BA 787 nose-gear incident

14th July 2021

The incident happened last month on stand while cargo was being loaded onto the Dreamliner

McDonnell Douglas

2nd ARS conducts final KC-10A sortie

14th July 2021

The USAF’s 2nd Air Refueling Squadron at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, flew its final McDonnell Douglas KC-10A Extender sortie on June 30, closing out its operation with the tanker aircraft

Beechcraft

Colombia’s first two T-6C Texan IIs enter service

14th July 2021

Two Beechcraft T-6C Texan IIs, which were delivered to the Colombian Air Force in May, have been formally inducted into operational service and will begin replacing the air arm’s Cessna T-37Bs in the training role

Aviation Recovery

Flughafen Wien Group announces recovery in passenger volume

14th July 2021

The company, which owns and operates Vienna, Malta and Kosice airports, handled 926,278 travelers last month

Connext

IAI selects Connext software for OPAL framework

14th July 2021

Israel Aerospace Industries has selected software framework company Real-Time Innovations to deliver its Connext distributed data service as part of its Operational Avionics Layer application framework

Hospitality

Manchester Airport opens hospitality facilities at new terminal

14th July 2021

Two food sites have begun operating, with three more set to begin in the coming weeks

FeelThere

La Guardia – KLGA 2023 for X-Plane 11

14th July 2021

Peek into the future and see how the modern La Guardia airport will look after the construction and redesign phase is over in 2023.

Aviation Recovery

Doncaster Sheffield reveals summer 2022 plans

14th July 2021

The airport is set to incorporate an additional two routes to next year’s schedule, with hopes to exceed 1.7 million passengers

Lockheed Martin

Report claims spatial disorientation caused Michigan F-16C crash

14th July 2021

A US Air Force Aircraft Accident Investigation Board report into the loss of an F-16C in the Hiawatha National Forest, Michigan, on December 8, 2020, has found that spatial disorientation caused the crash

Boeing

Indian Navy receives tenth P-8I Neptune

14th July 2021

Delivery of the tenth Boeing P-8I Neptune to the Indian Navy was completed on July 13, when the aircraft – serial IN329/N536DS (c/n 64891/8296), callsign ‘BOE232’ – arrived at INS Hansa in Goa-Dabolim