Sine Draco selects MRO for A321-200 conversion
Sine Draco Aviation Development has selected Ascent Aviation Services’ Tucson (TUS) MRO facility to perform touch labor for its in-development ...
Tag: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Amazon 737-800BCFs idled
Over the past week, five of the seventeen 737-800BCFs leased from GECAS by Amazon and currently operated on a CMI ...
Delta is first U.S. airline to reconfigure passenger freighter
Delta Air Lines has become the first U.S.-based carrier to reconfigure a passenger aircraft for cargo by temporarily removing seats ...
Amazon’s drone delivery fleet hits milestone with FAA clearance
Retail behemoth Amazon.com Inc. took a big leap toward delivering goods from the sky by becoming one of only a ...
FAA approves EFW’s A321F as first redelivery nears
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has validated the supplemental type certificate (STC) Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW) obtained from the European Union ...
Emergency AD mandates new engine inspections for stored 737s
An emergency airworthiness directive (AD) issued today by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires inspections of the engine bleed air ...
PEMCO expands 737NG conversion options with -700 STC
Competition intensifies in the 737NG conversion market, as a fourth company is cleared to convert aircraft of this type.  On July 10, the ...
FAA’s failure to cull bad pilots cited in fatal Atlas crash
The fatal crash of a cargo plane last year was caused in part by the failure of the U.S. federal ...
