Having received about 150 applications for the Trump administration’s unmanned aircraft system (UAS) Integration Pilot Program (IPP), the Transportation Department has doubled to 10 the number of projects to be funded.
Honeywell International announced May 1 it will have a new chief financial officer (CFO) by Aug. 3, naming Greg Lewis to succeed Tom Szlosek, “who has decided to retire for personal reasons.”
The U.S. Transportation Department will use its exemption authority to issue certificates to operators of small unmanned aircraft system (UAS) seeking to transport goods for compensation, a procedural step toward allowing delivery drones.
Panasonic Corp. of Japan and its U.S. subsidiary Panasonic Avionics Corp. (PAC) will pay $280 million to resolve Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and accounting fraud violations, the U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced separately on April 30.
CAA International, in partnership with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), has delivered an aerodrome certification course for 36 delegates from 14 African countries in Nairobi, Kenya.
Millennium International has finalized the completion of a 1,050-sq.-ft. Class 100 clean room in an expansion of its 9,500-sq.-ft. facility in Lee’s Summit, Missouri.
ALE Service Center in Toluca, Mexico, has completed its first installation of Rockwell Collins’ Venue cabin management and entertainment system in Latin America.
Million Air Syracuse has completed construction of a $10 million, 11,000-sq.-ft. FBO facility and 28,000-sq.-ft. hangar at Hancock International Airport in Syracuse, New York.
Former NASA astronaut and space shuttle commander Charlie Precourt will be the keynote speaker at Textron Aviation’s 2018 customer conference May 14-16 in Wichita.
A privacy watchdog organization has filed suit against FAA’s Drone Advisory Committee (DAC), charging that the industry-government group has failed to release records and make subcommittee and task group meetings open to the public in violation of federal open-meeting requirements.
The U.S. Congress took a major step toward bringing an end to more than three years of contentious debate over FAA reauthorization with the House voting overwhelming to pass legislation that would authorize the agency through Sept. 30, 2023.
Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pennsylvania) agreed to remove a controversial proposal from a “Manager’s Amendment” included in an FAA long-term funding bill, which would have moved management of the FAA to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Fred Schrameck, the former CEO of Epic Air of Bend, Oregon, has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud for a scheme involving his consumer aviation company, Aircraft Completion Services
