Regulatory Challenges & Harmonization needs for Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) Certification in Advanced Air Mobility ICAO Working Paper Assembly – 42nd Session Agenda Item 24: Aviation Safety and Air Navigation Priority Initiatives TE/195 25/8/25 (Information paper) English only REGULATORY CHALLENGES AND HARMONIZATION NEEDS FOR ELECTRIC VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDING (EVTOL) CERTIFICATION IN ADVANCED AIR MOBILITY (Presented by the...Read More

New Publication: ER-040 “Report on Information Security Management System (ISMS) for Aviation Organizations” We are pleased to announce the publication of ER-040 “Report on Information Security Management System (ISMS) for Aviation Organizations”. ER-040 is a report providing guidance in addressing a management system for Information Security that supplements the current Safety Management System. It responds to the need for consistent information...Read More

Meeting the challenge of airworthiness certification through continuous verification By Jay Thomas Recent trends in embedded system development have made designing – and delivering – advanced air-mobility systems more challenging than ever before. Game-changing and innovative technology advances are being realized in software, resulting in large code bases that are more complex. Software teams are growing in size as well,...Read More

Savvy’s Anomaly Detection Uses AI To Analyze Engines System will help discover problems that can then be addressed by human experts By Matt Thurber Savvy Aviation has introduced an anomaly detection tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to augment human-led diagnoses of piston engine problems. The GADFly tool is designed to help identify unusual engine behavior based on analysis of...Read More

UK CAA publishes new safety insights to guide future eVTOL regulation Electric Take-Off and Landing aircraft (eVTOLs) are being developed by a mixture of start-ups and traditional aviators and are testing the frontier of battery technology for inter-city and regional flight in the coming years. They promise to be quieter with potentially lower operational costs than traditional rotorcraft, bringing the...Read More

Starlink Acknowledges Software Failure Behind Outage of Satellite Internet Service By Corinne Reichert Outage reports spiked Thursday afternoon for Elon Musk’s high-flying satellite operations. Starlink experienced an outage Thursday afternoon that went on for 2.5 hours and took down tens of thousands of people’s satellite internet service. By a little after 5 p.m. PT Thursday, the company said in a post on X that...Read More

NASA Tests 5G-Based Aviation Network to Boost Air Taxi Connectivity By Laura Mitchell, NASA NASA engineers are exploring how the technology used in existing cellphone networks could support the next generation of aviation. In April and May, researchers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland built two specialized radio systems to study how well fifth-generation cellular network technology, known as...Read More

REGENT Completes Successful First Foil Testing in Seaglider Sea Trials REGENT’s latest sea trial campaign tests the vessel’s hydrofoiling capability on water ahead of the first flight later this year. The Seaglider vessel operates exclusively over the water in three modes: floating on the hull, foiling on hydrofoils, and flying in ground effect, within one wingspan from the surface of...Read More

Avionics Industry Set to Soar Into 2032 Amid M&A Boom and Tech Advancements By John Persinos The global avionics industry, valued at approximately USD 91.32 billion in 2023, is forecast to surge to USD 179.44 billion by 2032, growing at a robust compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.67%, according to a new report by Fortune Business Insights. In 2023, North...Read More

ZeroAvia to Build Manufacturing Hub in Scotland Zero-emission aviation leader will launch a Hydrogen Centre of Excellence and major manufacturing facility close to Glasgow Airport Scottish Enterprise have awarded ZeroAvia a £9m Regional Selective Assistance grant to help realise the project alongside company investment, creating hundreds of jobs The manufacturing plans build on UK Government R&D funding and equity investment...Read More