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Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has reaffirmed that all airports nationwide have adequate facilities to support night operations.

Atlantic Airways and Thales have signed a contract for a AW139 Reality H Level D full flight simulator to be located at Atlantic Airways' training center in the Faroe Islands.

Two three-woman squads from Liberty University’s Liberty Belles flight team flew Cessna Skyhawk 172SPs out of Lynchburg, Va., Friday morning to join the field of 53 teams arriving in Lakeland, Fla., the starting point of the 45th Air Race Classic...

Surrounded by mountains with a very challenging operating environment, Required Navigation Performance with Authorisation Required (RNP AR), a Performance Based Navigation (PBN) navigation specification, is the ideal solution for this type of airport. RNP AR allows navigation accuracy down to 0.3NM and below, and performing turns after the final approach point: trajectories can fit better in the obstacle landscape, reducing minimas whilst maintaining safety.

Kathmandu, May 31 (EFE).- Rescuers teams have recovered the bodies of all 22 people aboard the Tara Air plane that crashed in the Himalayas during inclement weather earlier this week, Nepal’s civil aviation regulator said on Tuesday. Sixteen Nepalis, including three crew members, four Indians and two German nationals were killed in the crash. “All …

EBACE Reports "We are back,” were the opening words of Athar Husain Khan, secretary-general, European Business Aviation Association (EBAA), in his keynote address on the opening day (May 22nd) of the first EBACE show in Geneva in three years. “And we couldn’t be more happy to have European business aviation and world aviation back on … Continue reading "EBAA boss tells EBACE business aviation show: ‘We are back’"

Safety editor Cat Burton looks at how ‘get there’-itis can have fatal consequences… and always conduct a pre-flight IMSAFE audit

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch has published a Special Bulletin concerning Piper Cherokee Arrow II (G-EGVA), missing approximately 20 nm west of Le Touquet, France, 2 April.

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch has published a Special Bulletin concerning the loss of Piper Cherokee Arrow II G-EGVA

Ryan Aerospace of Australia has collaborated with leading aviation safety organizations to improve training for unintentional instrument meteorological conditions.