Articles for category HeliNews Headlines

Nov 07 2026

Blue Angels Remove Maj. Scott Laux Ahead of Homecoming Airshow Posted by RSS Feed

Laux, who served as the Blue Angels’ No. 6 opposing solo pilot during the 2026 season, was removed

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Nov 06 2026

Mystery Flight From Rome to Tehran Puts Aircraft Tracking Deception in the Spotlight Posted by RSS Feed

An unidentified business jet flying from Italy to Iran under an apparently fictitious identity

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Nov 06 2026

T-38C Lost Both Horizontal Stabilizers Before Crashing in Alabama, Investigation Finds Posted by RSS Feed

A U.S. Air Force Accident Investigation Board determined that maintenance errors allowed a

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Nov 06 2026

Democrats won Congress. What that means for business aviation Posted by RSS Feed

Before Democrats won Congress, a group of senators had already challenged how the IRS taxes a

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Nov 06 2026

Gulfstream's G280 supply narrows as the G300 waits on certification Posted by RSS Feed

Gulfstream delivered 40 aircraft in the third quarter, 35 of them large-cabin and five mid-cabin,

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Nov 06 2026

Atlantic Aviation wants to land Electra's EL9 on NYC piers and barges Posted by RSS Feed

Atlantic Aviation operates 108 FBOs across North America, and it's looking for places to expand that

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Nov 06 2026

HMS Queen Elizabeth Hosts Tekever AR5 and Nyan Strike Drones During New Trials Posted by RSS Feed

Operating in the North Atlantic, the Royal Navy aircraft carrier launched Nyan one-way attack drones

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Nov 05 2026

F-35B Releases Meteor BVRAAM for the First Time Posted by RSS Feed

The Oct. 7 trial saw the release of an inert Meteor test asset from an F-35B’s internal weapons bay,

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Nov 05 2026

Shield AI Reveals First Full-Scale Prototype X-BAT VTOL Fighter Drone Posted by RSS Feed

Around half the size of an F-35, and powered by an afterburning GE F110 engine with thrust vectoring

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Nov 05 2026

Bombardier's backlog swells to $22.2 billion. Buyers may still have to wait. Posted by RSS Feed

Bombardier's third-quarter results showed revenue of $2.4 billion, adjusted EBITDA of $382 million

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Nov 05 2026

Wheels Up orders six Phenom 300Es in its first direct Embraer deal Posted by RSS Feed

Wheels Up has signed a definitive agreement with Embraer Executive Aircraft for six factory-new

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Nov 05 2026

Japan Intercepts Chinese WZ-7 High-Altitude Drones Flying Through Miyako Strait Posted by RSS Feed

Chinese state media recently featured the WZ-7 alongside other PLA reconnaissance drones, describing

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Nov 05 2026

From Drones to Bomb Hoaxes: Is Europe’s Civil Aviation Facing a New Form of Hybrid Warfare? Posted by RSS Feed

A wave of false bomb threats has triggered flight diversions, emergency procedures and fighter jet

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Nov 05 2026

Business jet flights jump 39%. Challenger 300 leads the surge Posted by RSS Feed

Avi-Go reported 69,320 business-aviation flights worldwide during the week of Oct. 26-Nov. 1, up

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Nov 05 2026

NASA Announces X-70 Fractal, its Latest Experimental Aircraft Posted by RSS Feed

NASA has announced its newest experimental aircraft, the X-70 Fractal, described as a

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Nov 04 2026

RIAT Permanently Relocates to MOD Boscombe Down From 2027 Posted by RSS Feed

The Royal International Air Tattoo will leave RAF Fairford after decades at the Gloucestershire

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Nov 04 2026

Why your job description, not your title, sets your business aviation salary Posted by RSS Feed

Back in the day when I was chief pilot for a Midwestern telecommunications company, my official job

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Nov 04 2026

NTSB finds Learjet 60's missing elevator miles from Greenacres crash Posted by RSS Feed

The NTSB said this week it is examining whether part of the Learjet 60 that crashed into a

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Nov 04 2026

First HH-60W Jolly Green II Arrives at Joint Base Andrews Posted by RSS Feed

The arrival of the first HH-60W marks the start of the transition from the UH-1N in support of the

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Nov 04 2026

SNC Withdraws From UJTS Competition, Leaving Textron As Sole Bidder Posted by RSS Feed

SNC decided to not bid for the U.S. Navy’s UJTS program, leaving the Textron/Leonardo team with the

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Nov 04 2026

Pilatus PC-12 cost guide: purchase price and operating costs Posted by RSS Feed

The Pilatus PC-12 set the bar for the single-engine turboprop market upon its introduction in 1994.

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Nov 03 2026

GA-ASI Opens Remote Split Operation Facility to Remotely Fly MQ-9s for AFRICOM Posted by RSS Feed

GA-ASI announced the opening of a new Remote Split Operation facility in North Dakota to remotely

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Nov 03 2026

5X5 ties insurance premiums to APS upset-recovery training Posted by RSS Feed

5X5 Aviation Insurance announced on Nov. 2 that it will give a 5% premium reduction for pilots who

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Nov 03 2026

DA40 owners face a new FAA door-latch inspection mandate Posted by RSS Feed

The FAA adopted a new airworthiness directive (AD) requiring operators of affected Diamond aircraft

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Nov 02 2026

Cirrus's Vision Jet finds two different jobs in regional flying Posted by RSS Feed

As operators look for efficient ways to connect smaller regional destinations directly, one aircraft

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Nov 02 2026

Greece Signs for up to Six Embraer KC-390 Millennium Multi-Role Transports Posted by RSS Feed

The Hellenic Air Force has placed a firm order for three KC-390 Millennium aircraft from Brazilian

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Nov 02 2026

Centennial hangar tenants drop suit after FAA rejects rent complaint Posted by RSS Feed

Pilots and hangar tenants at Centennial Airport (APA) in Colorado have abandoned their lawsuit

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Nov 01 2026

Learjet 60 crashes in Palm Beach County, Florida, killing all nine aboard Posted by RSS Feed

A Learjet 60, tail number N722BD, bound for the Bahamas crashed in a residential area of Palm Beach

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Nov 01 2026

Radomes: Why Their Colors Often Didn’t Match The Aircraft Posted by RSS Feed

Often coated in black in earlier years, aircraft radomes frequently differed in color from the rest

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Oct 31 2026

Rafale M Conducts Trials Aboard Indian Navy’s INS Vikrant Aircraft Carrier Posted by RSS Feed

India selected in 2023 and ordered in 2025 the Rafale M as an interim carrier-based fighter

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