The Federal Aviation Administration has denied a request to extend the reopened comment period for its proposed Part 108 rule on beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) unmanned aircraft operations, maintaining a deadline of this Wednesday for public input. The agency reopened the comment period on Jan. 28 to seek additional feedback on electronic conspicuity

Garmin said Tuesday that it has acquired a hangar and office complex at Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa, Arizona, to support its aircraft certification and flight test operations. The facility consists of two adjacent hangars totaling about 75,000 square feet and includes office space for approximately 75 employees. The airport’s three parallel runways, including two

One of my clients uses his airplane for business travel. He earned his private pilot certificate a few years ago in a Cessna 172 then bought a single-engine Piper piston. When he lands at an airport with a flight school, he seeks out the chance to fly a new-to-him model of aircraft for the experience.

A leading U.S. developer of blended-wing body (BWB) aircraft that it bills as a replacement for single-aisle narrowbodies—such as the Boeing 737 Max 8 and 10 and Airbus A321neo—has announced a new, larger flagship concept for up to 250 passengers. Natilus CEO and co-founder Aleksey Matyushev told FLYING that the company’s Horizon Evo, unveiled Tuesday,

India’s largest LCC IndiGo has struck a deal with West Entertainment to  supply a suite of inflight entertainment and related services for the airline’s A321XLR fleet. Under the five-year agreement, West Entertainment, together with partners Shemaroo Contentino and Images in Motion, will deliver a catalogue of on-demand content. READ: IndiGo selects Bluebox IFE for A321XLR order

National airline Air Cambodia has selected AirFi to deliver wireless streaming inflight entertainment (IFE) across its fleet, marking a new customer go-live and a fleetwide implementation spanning the airline’s narrowbody and regional aircraft. Under the partnership, AirFi’s streaming IFE platform will be deployed across Air Cambodia’s fleet of Airbus A320 and ATR 72-series aircraft, including

Spain-based LCC Volotea has introduced predictive spare parts planning capability in order to better forecast material demand, months and even years ahead. The system has been built with predictive maintenance provider EXSYN’s modular aviation data platform and it set to transforms how the airline plans, procures, and positions spare parts across its maintenance network. READ: Volotea,

Improved fault resolution is one of the significant gains expected from the application of industrialised Artificial Intelligence in aircraft maintenance. Speaking to Aviation Business News last week in Dubai at the MRO Middle East trade show Mark Buongiorno, OFS president of aerospace and defence said data sets need to be collated. He said as airlines

CargoLand, the air cargo hub at Liege Airport (LGG) in Belgium, has announced a new partnership with Emirates SkyCargo, reinforcing its position as a leading European pharmaceutical logistics hub. Following several years of ad hoc operations, Emirates SkyCargo will now serve LGG with five weekly Boeing 777 freighters, marking its first new freighter destination of 2026