2024 Corporate Aviation Leadership Summit

Curt Epstein

News and issues about aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), covering all segments of the aviation industry; and modifications for aircraft and engines. Subjects include product support of aircraft, engines and avionics, MRO company mergers, acquisitions, announcements and personnel, Airworthiness Directives, Supplemental Type Certificate approvals and other topics.

News and issues relating to international air transport and cargo carriers, national airlines and regional airlines, including aircraft, engines, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security and training.

News and issues relating to business, corporate and private aviation, primarily regarding turbine-engine-powered airplanes and helicopters. Subjects include aircraft, engines, maintenance, operations, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security, and training.

A new service center is expected to open in Dubai next year

Liebherr Expands Middle East Component Service Options

Charles Alcock

News and issues concerning the aviation charter and fractional-ownership industries and markets, including company announcements, regulations, new developments and labor issues.

Issues regarding financing of aircraft; aviation insurance; tax issues for aircraft operators; new companies and people in the aviation financing and insurance industries.

News about bills, laws, regulations and other governmental decisions affecting aviation and aerospace. Topics include FAA re-authorizations, taxes on fuel and aviation activities, environmental legislation, ICAO decisions, governmental mediation of labor conflicts and World Trade Organization disputes and decisions.

Rates applying from March 1 are up to 300% higher than previous passenger taxes

Charter Flights Face Punitive Passenger Taxes in France

Sarah Rose

News and issues concerning general aviation, specifically airplanes and helicopters powered by piston and alternative engines (i.e., non-turbine powered aircraft). Subjects include aircraft, engines, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security and training.

Tariff does not allow for exemptions or exceptions

Steel and Aluminum Tariff Gives Aviation Industry Pause

Amy Wilder

News and issues relating to the aerospace industry that are related to the science, engineering and business of flight in space involving civil, industrial and military applications, and similar topics related to flight in the atmosphere of the Earth that are not covered more directly by other AINonline subject channels. In other words, both astronautical and aeronautical subjects, except for those aeronautical topics that are specifically covered elsewhere on this website.

No rationale has been provided by the FAA explaining the change

FAA Order Reverses Notam Acronym Terminology

News and developments about airplanes, helicopters and unmanned air vehicles used in all varieties of operations, including airlines, military, business, commercial, general aviation and private.

As competitors drop out of the eVTOL race, Eve is pressing ahead.

Testing Starts For Eve Air Mobility’s eVTOL Aircraft Prototype

News about commercial airlines, including regulations, aircraft orders, safety, acquisitions, and mergers.

Conversion of E190 passenger airliner now certified by Brazilian, U.S., and European regulators

EASA Certification Clears E-Freighter for Global Operations

Japan Civil Aviation Bureau has issued the G-1 document to the start-up

Japanese Regulator Confirms Certification Basis for SkyDrive eVTOL 

News and developments about aircraft engines, including turbofan, turboprop, turboshaft and piston.

News and issues regarding all manner of civil and military rotorcraft and their powerplants, including helicopters, tilt rotors and unmanned air vehicles.

News and issues relating to civil and military unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) of all kinds and sizes, including those used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), combat (unmanned combat air vehicles, or UCAVs), law enforcement, research and other applications. Of particular focus is the FAA's planned integration of UAS into the U.S. national airspace system.

Essential news and analysis on the defense aerospace business. Your trusted source for new and ongoing programs and requirements in military aircraft (manned and unmanned), engines, avionics, weapons and associated systems, including ground-based air defense.

Evacuation of Ukrainian troops from Mariupol inspired efforts to "reinvent helicopters"

Lithuanian Start-up Takes New Approach to Emergency Air Mobility

News about significant aircraft accidents and information from accident reports.

Content Archive: February 2025

Liebherr Expands Middle East Component Service Options

Charter Flights Face Punitive Passenger Taxes in France

Steel and Aluminum Tariff Gives Aviation Industry Pause

FAA Order Reverses Notam Acronym Terminology

Testing Starts For Eve Air Mobility’s eVTOL Aircraft Prototype

EASA Certification Clears E-Freighter for Global Operations

Japanese Regulator Confirms Certification Basis for SkyDrive eVTOL

Lithuanian Start-up Takes New Approach to Emergency Air Mobility

Landing Learjet Crashes into Parked Jet in Runway Excursion

Ascendance's Hybrid Propulsion System To Power French Drones

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