ORLANDO—FAA’s transition to a risk-based oversight philosophy is progressing well, but the change remains “in its early days” and the agency is listening to industry feedback as part of making the new approach more effective, Ali Bahrami, FAA’s associate administrator-aviation safety, said.
Boeing had a towering month of new commercial aircraft orders in March as the U.S.-based manufacturer racked up firm orders for 196 aircraft, valued at approximately $29 billion per Boeing’s 2018 list prices, which have risen by about 4.2% compared to last year.
Indonesia-based LCC Lion Air has been revealed as the customer for 50 Boeing 737-10s, boosting the carrier’s already massive order book for Boeing and Airbus narrowbodies.
American Airlines is close to a major milestone in its massive narrowbody fleet upgrade program, putting a Boeing 737-800 prototype through final evaluation and certification testing at its Tulsa, Oklahoma, maintenance facility with an eye toward starting modification lines after the peak summer flying season.
United Parcel Service (UPS), in need of more capacity, is in the process of converting three used Boeing 767-300 passenger aircraft into freighters and is interested in additional 767 conversions.
The development of a lower-deck passenger compartment in Airbus widebodies is bringing the airframer and Zodiac back together in cabin interiors, two years after a clash caused by Zodiac's delay and quality issues.
Airbus is preparing to introduce the Airspace cabin on the A330neo and is refining the design on the A320neo. Both continue the A350's passenger experience.
Thales introduced two new inflight entertainment suites, the lower-cost Core and the high-end Prestige, at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg this week.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) is temporarily refusing to consider applications for service to and from Shanghai Pudong International Airport because of poor on-time performance for flights at the airport.
UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS), seeking to expand its presence in the data-driven maintenance prognostics arena, launched a multi-tier set of aircraft subsystem monitoring and health management services running on an expanded and re-branded version of its five-year-old aircraft system health management (ASHM) product.
Wet lease specialist Hi Fly signed a medium-term lease with Air Lease Corporation (ALC) for one Airbus A330-900, kick-starting the carrier’s fleet modernization.
Airbus is pushing out a decision on whether to go ahead with upgrades of its A320neo family aircraft, as the company continues to face tough challenges in ramping up narrowbody production and with the in-service A320neo fleet.
American Airlines plans to equip 320 Airbus A321s to display nearby air traffic on the flight deck via Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast In (ADS-B In), spearheading the industry’s next step after the 2020 mandate to equip for ADS-B Out position reporting.
Michael Huerta, whose five-year term as FAA administrator ended in January, said the effort to spin off U.S. air traffic control (ATC) from FAA failed because it became too focused on the structure of a proposed ATC entity instead of detailing solutions for making air traffic management more efficient in the U.S.
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Liberty Hall Partners, a private equity investor with an aerospace focus, has acquired AeroCision, a supplier of complex engine components and assemblies.
Key players in the Russian aerospace industry have unveiled a roadmap to substitute all the foreign composites on the Irkut MC-21 narrowbody airliner’s airframe with equivalent, locally produced materials.
Drone delivery provider Zipline has introduced a faster unmanned aircraft system (UAS) as part of an overhaul of its logistics system to speed the supply of blood for transfusions to remote clinics in Rwanda, and soon Tanzania.
MTU Maintenance Zhuhai, responding to surging demand for narrowbody engine maintenance, is making room for more overhaul work that will add some shop capacity near-term and increase it by 50% by 2021.
NASA has selected Lockheed Martin to build an X-plane to demonstrate that sonic booms can be reduced to a noise level low enough to enable the ban on civil supersonic flight over land to be lifted.
