Civil Aircraft News

An FAA supplemental type certificate issued to Trolltune Corporation promises to help operators of Gulfstream IIB and GIII airplanes fly within strict noise limits at the Van Nuys Airport in Southern California.

American Airlines and JetBlue are terminating their frequent-flier partnership. Implemented in 2010, the pact had allowed customers to earn miles or points on the some other carrier's flights.

Jason Ahrns, a graduate student at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, goes sprite-chasing at night during electrical storms.

Boeing 787 Dreamliner production is picking up pace after a long and costly development process and started to have a major positive impact on the revenue of Boeing .

"Our managing director Ahmad Jauhari Yahya clearly stated recently that there would be no further international route cutting this year after Los Angeles.

The NTSB released their final report concluding the probable cause of the accident was: The first officer's inadvertent activation of the parking brake in flight, which led to the airplane abruptly stopping and all four of its main landing gear tires deflating, and his use of a nonstandard procedure to cancel the airplane's monitoring alert system.

The most frequently asked question Andreas Ockel has to take from international visitors to the Airbus assembly plant in Tianjin, an hour outside Beijing, is whether the jetliners put together there are really up to scratch.

Shelby Scorse, the daughter of Jeff and Sonya Scorse of Lunenburg, is one of three youths who have won an aviation scholarship from the Greater Boston Experimental Airplane Association Chapter 106.

Air Arabia, the first and largest low-cost carrier in the Middle East and North Africa, today announced that it has taken delivery of its 37th aircraft, the 6000th Airbus A320 made to date.

WITH debate raging over the profitability of Australia's airlines, what does it actually cost to put a plane in the air? As Qantas looks to slash 5000 staff, cut routes and sell or defer orders on 50 aircraft in the face of a $252 million half-year loss, and Virgin Australia confront their own smaller deficit, a News Corp Australia analysis ... (more)

The Boeing 777 is one of the safest planes on earth, and the Malaysia Airlines crash Friday should do nothing to tarnish that record -- or that of parent company Boeing -- unless a flaw is found in this incident, business analysts said Le Bourget, FRANCE: Picture of the tails of a Boeing 777 and Airbus A380 and A340 at the Paris Air Show 13 June ... (more)

Saturday, Tampa Bay Downs TAMPA BAY DERBY-GII , $350,000, 3yo, 1 1/16m, 1:43 3/5, ft.

THE country's leading low-cost carrier, Cebu Pacific took delivery of its 3rd brandnew Airbus A330 aircraft last February 21, and is being utilized on one flight between Manila and Cebu and two flights between Manila and Davao starting February 25 until June 14, 2014.

According to The Wall Street Journal , none of the 182 people on board the Airbus A320 flight were injured.

Dassault Aviation will present its Falcon fleet of large cabin, long range business jets at India Aviation, India's biggest civilian air show.

An IndiGo flight from Delhi to Kathmandu evacuated passengers using a slide chute on Saturday after its rear wheel caught fire while landing in the Nepalese capital, the carrier, India's largest airline, said.

A rear wheel of an Airbus A320 operated by an Indian budget airline caught fire after landing at Nepal's international airport in Kathmandu on Saturday, officials said.

A rear wheel of an Airbus A320 operated by an Indian budget airline caught fire after landing at Nepal's international airport in Kathmandu on Saturday, officials said.

KATHMANDU: A rear wheel of an Airbus A320 operated by an Indian budget airline caught fire after landing at Nepal's international airport in Kathmandu on Saturday, officials said.

Above, the roomy first-class section of an Emirates airlines Airbus A380; below, an Allegiant Air flight attendant readies his passengers for takeoff on the discount airline.