19-Year-Old Pilot Was Attempting to Fly Solo to All Seven Continents

On his journey to become the first pilot to land solo on all seven continents, 19-year-old Ethan Guo has hit a legal roadblock. He was arrested for altering his flight plan and landing in Antarctica without notifying air traffic control.

Wing of a Taxiing Boeing 787 Collides With a Parked Airbus A321

Four Vietnam Airlines pilots have been suspended as the carrier investigates a recent ground collision between two of its jets, one a Boeing 787 and the other an Airbus A321, at Noi Bai Airport in Hanoi. There were no injuries, and the planes were quickly swapped out for flights to continue.

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The Pilot and Aircraft Privacy Act was introduced in the House by Representative Bob Onder (R-MO) and in the Senate by Senator Ted Budd (R-NC), to federally restrict the use of ADS-B flight tracking data for non-safety-related purposes. The bills prohibit the use of ADS-B to assess fees or initiate enforcement actions unrelated to safety. The National STOL Series suffered a devastating loss when the truck towing the event trailer was involved in an accident in Montana. The truck flipped, caught fire, and both truck and trailer were destroyed in the subsequent fire. Thankfully no one was injured but all the equipment used in putting on events was lost. Volocopter has resumed work towards the certification of its VoloCity eVTOL, this time under the guiding hand of Diamond Aircraft. The manufacturer filed for insolvency late last year before being

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The news Piper PA-18 Super Cub owners have been waiting for has finally arrived: CubCrafters announced the availability of an FAA-approved Supplemental Type Certificate, or STC, that increases the gross weight of the legendary aircraft to 2,300 lbs, more than 30% higher than the original specifications. The news comes after CubCrafters has been working on the down-low for years with industry partners including Lycoming, Hartzell, and others to make the Super Cub even better. On the heels of the first flight of yet another unique new type of aircraft to take flight with a Deltahawk diesel engine, their plans indicate that some three aircraft, the original SR20 (which ANN’s Jim Campbell flew two years ago), the Velocity V-Twin (Sporting TWO Deltahawks), and the recently completed RV-14 -- making for a total of four DH series engines to be making

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Volocopter has resumed work towards the certification of its VoloCity eVTOL, this time under the guiding hand of Diamond Aircraft. The manufacturer filed for insolvency late last year before being saved in a $11 million deal this March. Volocopter had big plans: high-profile air show appearances, flashy partnerships with Honeywell and Mercedes-Benz, and a demo flight debut planned for the 2024 Paris Olympics... Swiss electric aircraft developer H55 completed over 50 demo flights in the Palo Alto stop of its Across America tour. The Bristell B23 Energic aircraft demonstrated the reliability of its electric propulsion system and the company said total purchase commitments garnered during the tour now account for the first two years of production. Searching through the debris of an assault on Ukraine led drone hunters to a startling discovery: Russia may be using

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As we present this program, we have just 24 days to our biggest Oshkosh programming effort yet. We’ll have even more to say in the coming days, but please note that we’re bringing our biggest and best crew ever -- and will start the proceedings with a special edition of Airborne on the Friday before Airventure, emphasizing many of the innovations and exciting developments YOU can look forward to and where to find them. The National Championship Air Races (NCAR) has completed the first edition of their annual Pylon Racing Seminar (PRS) in its new home in Roswell, NM. The event was attended by NCAR leadership, volunteers and pilots looking to become race-certified ahead of the races in September. Participants received four days of instruction, race practice time, training and certifications allowing them to race with maximum competitiveness and saf

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A pro-Palestine direct-action protest group claimed credit for two of its members breaking into the RAF Brize Norton Airbase west of London during the early morning of June 20 and defacing two KC2 Voyagers while they were parked on the ramp by spraying paint into the engines and the aircraft exteriors, causing an as-yet unknown amount of damage. All racers have made it across the finish line for the 2025 women’s Air Race Classic, marking the end of a 2,426-mile journey that brought competitors from Fairhope, Alabama, to Spokane, Washington. The “Skybound Scotts” and “Frozen Force” teams led their respective categories. The race tradition started 96 years ago with the Women’s Air Derby, hosted in 1929 under the 1929 National Air Races. The Commemorative Air Force’s iconic B-29 Superfortress is getting ready to

Taiwanese Carrier Reveals Plan in Stock Exchange Filing

China Airlines, based in Taiwan, let it be known in a filing with the Taipei Stock Exchange on June 25 that it intends to expand its fleet with up to13 aircraft including five Airbus A350 and eight A321neo aircraft.

STC Secured For 790-Gallon Tsunami Carbon Fiber Internal  Vessel

Recoil Aerospace announced it has received FAA approval for its 790-gallon Tsunami Internal Aerial Fire Suppression System, or AFSS, carbon fiber tank for all variants of the UH-60 Black Hawk and its civilian version S-70 helicopters. The tank is manufactured in the U.S. and it easily and rapidly installed during preparations for firefighting season.

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Eve Air Mobility has signed a Letter of Intent or LOI, with Future Flight Global to provide 54 eVTOL aircraft which will be deployed in Brazilian and U.S. markets. Future Flight Global invests in advanced air mobility (AAM) to deploy and operate aircraft globally. The future of advanced air mobility is looking increasingly bright for the US, with the President, Transportation Secretary, and Acting FAA Administrator all putting in the work to get air taxis in the sky. At the Paris Air Show, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Acting FAA Administrator Chris Rocheleau unveiled a roadmap to streamline certification and regulation of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft—eVTOLs. Elon Musk and SpaceX posted immediately after Starship Ship 36 experienced a catastrophic explosion and subsequent Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly as fuel was being