Manufacturer Works to Set Up Shop in California

Personal aviation company Jetson recently completed the first-ever delivery of its ONE electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, and to none other than Oculus and Anduril Industries founder Palmer Luckey. This comes as Jetson works to shift its business overseas, establishing new headquarters in California.

Manufacturer Wiggles Its Way Into the US Flight Training Market

Czech plane maker Bristell was awarded its first FAA Type Certification for the B23 two-seater, assisting its effort to get on the US flight training map. The bird has a well-established reputation overseas, with more than 1,100 delivered to happy customers since 2009.

Bipartisan Support Passes Key Legislation

The Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l commended the U.S. House for passage of the Mental Health in Aviation Act that had bipartisan sponsorship and support in the voice vote held on September 9. The key legislation increases access to mental health resources for aviation professionals and significantly enhances aviation safety.

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The recently concluded Midwest Aviation Expo, hosted by the Mt. Vernon Outland Airport is a modest but overtly positive event in the sport aviation scheme of things. Led by Airport Boss Chris Collins, one of the best in the business, the event has been going on for 17 years and emphasizes a close and personal opportunity for companies to display their wares and for potential customers to spend time looking them over... There are a LOT of SportPlanes out there and while ANN’s Chief Test Pilot, Jim Campbell, has flown well over a 1000 unique types, there are still a lot of birds on his “Must-Fly’ List. One of them was the Flight Design F2. Jim says the F2 IS NOT a modified CT series bird... it is distinctively different and is most definitely not your Father’s CT. The Rotax 912iS powered F2 is a spacious, easily acces

Transforms Lunar Or Martian Regolith Into Materials For Self-Sustainment

Blue Origin announced that its Blue Alchemist resource utilization system successfully completed its Critical Design Review, a landmark achievement in the quest to expand humanity’s presence beyond Earth. Blue Alchemist provides a means to turn the Moon, and eventually Mars, into self-sustaining environments by transforming surface materials into usable resources to support robots and humans.

Workforce Development Partnership Expands To Meet Demand

Hawaiian Airlines and Honolulu Community College announced an expansion of their workforce development program with their launch of the Maintenance Technician Development Program (MTDP), a new initiative they intend to train the next generation of aviation maintenance technicians.

Talk About Company’s Progress On Aircraft, Infrastructure, And Training

ANN’s Rex Alexander spoke with Thomson Meeks of Beta Technologies at the recent EAA AirVenture Air Show and Fly-in in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, who gave the rundown on the company’s all-electric Alia CX300 aircraft. The CX300 is a conventional takeoff and landing, or CTOL aircraft, which gives the company the ability to leverage conventional infrastructure to test the electric aircraft’s design prior to integrating the vertical lift technology for Beta’s VTOL version. The conventional aircraft has a range of about 215 nm and can carry 5 passengers and a pilot, or transport cargo with the seats removed.

WestJet 737-800 Experiences a Catastrophic Right Main Landing Gear Failure

It’s not uncommon to see an airliner make a hard landing at Princess Juliana International Airport (SXM) in sunny Sint Maarten; however, it’s a little more unusual to watch as the right main landing gear collapses, leaving a WestJet 737-800 sliding across the runway on its belly.

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About 2132 And At 11,800 Ft MSL, The Airplane Began A Rapid Right Spiraling Descent

On August 18, 2025, about 2133 central daylight time, a Lancair NLA-275-FR-C airplane, N345LA, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Bradley, Arkansas. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. A preliminary review of ADS-B data showed the airplane departed Lakeway Airpark, Lakeway, Texas, about 2011. The airplane then proceeded on a predominant northeast course. At 2018, the airplane reached an altitude of about 10,000 ft mean sea level (msl). After about 50 minutes, the airplane began a climb to an altitude of about 12,175 ft msl. After about 18 minutes, the airplane climbed to maximum altitude of about 14,125 ft msl, followed by a descent to about 12,375 ft msl.