Content Archive: September 2024

Engines

USAF Funds VerdeGo's Hybrid Powerplant Development

$1.9 million contract funds first production-ready VH-3 prototype
VerdeGo Aero's VH-3 hybrid-electric powerplant
FBOs

Clay Lacy Gets NBAA Nod for Infrastructure Sustainability

Company's facilities have been carbon neutral since 2019
Business jet refueling on Clay Lacy ramp
Accidents

Jury Awards $116M in Doors-off Helitour Crash

All five passengers drowned after autorotation into NYC's East River
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Gogo Adds Global Aviation Tech to Dealer Network

MRO provider will install Avance and Galileo connectivity equipment
Gogo Business Aviation air-to-ground Wi-Fi
Accidents

NTSB: Poor Pilot Training, Monitoring Led to Fatal C90 Accident

Pilot also violated company's sterile cockpit rules
Illustrated instrument panel of fatal C90 Accident
ATC

FAA Hits Controller Hiring Mark for 2024

Agency hired 1,811 controllers and plans to spool up to 2,000 in fiscal year 2025
Controller at Dulles International Airport (Photo: Bill Carey)
Environment

Minnesota Flight To Fly on Locally Grown SAF

Delta flight will highlight the region's SAF production chain
Winter camelina
Airlines

Nordic Seaplanes Signs for Elfly's Noemi Electric Amphibious Aircraft

Danish charter and scheduled operator could buy up to 15 of the electric seaplanes
Elfly's Noemi electric seaplane
Aircraft

Nexus eVTOL Progressing at Textron eAviation

Four-passenger aircraft could enter service in the 2030s
Textron eAviation Nexus
Aircraft

RAF Wedgetail AEW&C Aircraft Start Test Flights in the UK

Airborne early warning and control platform is based on Boeing's 737NG airliner
Boeing E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning & control aircraft