Category: Aviation World

The City of Long Beach, California is offering to pay piston aircraft operators to switch to unleaded fuel. Last week the city council of the Los Angeles suburb voted to have the city cover the $2-$4 per gallon difference between Swift Fuels and 100LL. In November, city council voted to cover the cost of the STC needed for aircraft to legally use the fuel up to $300. Swift sells the STC for $100. The unleaded fuel has been at the Signature FBO at Long Beach since last August but hadn’t…
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Source: https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/long-beach-subsidizes-unleaded-avgas/

(IMAGE: Via Airbus)The Airbus Lifecycle Services Centre (ALSC) has started its operations in Chengdu (China), offering solutions to manage the entire lifecycle of an aircraft. This centre is the first of its kind to cover, as a one-stop shop, the full range of activities from aircraft parking and storage to maintenance, upgrades, conversions, dismantling and recycling services for various aircraft types, as well as the controlled distribution of used parts from dismantling.The Airbus…
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Source: https://asianaviation.com/airbus-opens-lifecycle-service-centre-in-china/

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Why are there so few women pilots? Industry averages hover stubbornly at 5-6%. Do women not want to become pilots? Is there not enough education or awareness? And what is driving the gender gap in other key aviation fields including air traffic control (ATC), aircraft engineering, maintenance, air racing, and search & rescue?
These are just some of the questions that Canadian air traffic controller turned activist Kendra Kincade seeks to answer — and indeed provide solutions for…
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Source: https://runwaygirlnetwork.com/2024/01/kendra-kincades-only-up-documentary-helps-women-soar-in-aviation/

The conservative media ecosystem is piggybacking on Americans’ fascination with air travel to stir up opposition to corporate diversity programs, an effort that may raise the salience of culture war issues at the start of the 2024 election year even as their claims are largely based on false or misleading information. In recent weeks, right-wing influencers, politicians and media outlets have repeatedly attacked efforts by airlines to find more job applicants who are women or nonwhite,…
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Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/airline-airport-united-delta-dei-migration-spirit-rcna135098

(PHOTO: Airbus Helicopters)Airbus Helicopters has announced that it is partnering with the Tata Group to establish a Final Assembly Line (FAL) for helicopters in the country. The FAL will produce Airbus’ best-selling H125 helicopter from its civil range for India and export to some of the neighbouring countries.The FAL will be the first instance of the private sector setting up a helicopter manufacturing facility in India, providing a major boost to the Government of India’s…
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Source: https://asianaviation.com/airbus-partners-with-tata-group-for-indias-first-helicopter-fal/

Six people were hospitalized for minor injuries and later released following the “hard landing” of an American Airlines jetliner at Kahului Airport in Maui, Hawaii, on Saturday, Federal Aviation Administration and airline officials said.According to an FAA statement, the American Airlines Airbus A320 “made a hard landing” on an airport runway around 2 p.m. local time. Those hospitalized included one passenger and five flight attendants, American said in a separate statement. Flight 271 from…
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Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna136038