Content Archive: July 2025

Maintenance and Modifications

Castle Air Expands Helo Maintenance with Heliwork Buy

Company expands UK footprint and adds new blade and component capabilities
Castle Air Group
Avionics

Honeywell FMS Guided Visual Approaches Add Capability

New airports and integrations give pilots more options for mitigating risk
Honeywell guided visual approaches
Aircraft

Business Aircraft Flight Activity Sees Boost in June

Global business aircraft activity up 4.8% YOY in June
Phenom 300 (Photo: NetJets)
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Galileo Available from Textron Aviation Service Centers

System includes the HDX antenna and Gogo Avance router
Gogo Galileo satcom on Cessna Citation
Maintenance and Modifications

Bombardier Progresses London Biggin Hill Paint Facility

New two-bay hangar is expected to open in the second half of 2026
Peter Fortune (left), MP for Bromley and Biggin Hill, with Sander Podgoric, general manager of Bombardier's London Biggin Hill service center
Environment

New Tool Helps Aviation Cut Climate Impact

Reducing contrails may outweigh small CO2 increases, according to researchers at UC Irvine
Jet plane with contrail
Airports

Skyports Expands UAE Vertiport Plans with Ajman Partnership

The Ajman emirate aims to become a “smart city” by 2030
Daniel O’Neill, general manager of Skyports Middle East, and HE Omar Mohammed Lootah, director general of Ajman Transport Authority, signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on vertiport infrastructure in the UAE.
Environment

Researchers Tackle Tradeoffs in Aviation’s Climate Impact

Simply reducing aircraft fuel burn is not necessarily the greenest strategy
NASA’s DC-8 EcoDemonstrator aircraft
Aircraft

Archer Aviation Launches eVTOL Aircraft Flight Trials in Abu Dhabi

Rival eVTOL developer Joby recently began flying its four-seat air taxi in Dubai
Archer Midnight eVTOL mockup at Paris Air Show 2025
Regulations and Government

FAA Shifts Foreign Procedure Oversight to Operators

Principal inspectors to contact operators by early September to reissue OpSpecs, MSpecs, or LOAs
business jet taxiing