FAA proposes horizontal stabilizer examinations on some Boeing 737 aircraft

The FAA's proposed mandate puts thousands of aircraft at risk.
HeraldNet

Alenia wraps up 787 horizontal stabilizer testing

Boeing’s 787 partner Alenia Aeronautica says it has finished destructive testing on the Dreamliner’s horizontal stabilizer. After testing the stabilizer over the past seven months, Italy’s Alenia says ...
Flying

NTSB Issues Emergency Safety Recommendation for DHC-3s

The National Transportation Safety Board has issued an urgent safety recommendation to the FAA and Transport Canada that all operators of de Havilland Canada DHC-3s conduct an immediate inspection on ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Boeing unveils all-Utah-built airplane tail four months in the making

The first entirely Utah-made 787-9 horizontal stabilizer, or tail of the airplane, was shipped Friday as a crowd of more than 700 cheered from Boeing Salt Lake's warehouse at Salt Lake City ...
Yahoo Finance

Robinson Helicopter’s Symmetrical Horizontal Stabilizer Now Approved for All Models by European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), Argentina, Japan, and India

Robinson R66 with improved empennage. · GlobeNewswire Inc. Robinson R22 with improved empennage. · GlobeNewswire Inc. TORRANCE, Calif., Dec. 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Robinson Helicopter Company ...
Business Wire

Boeing Selects Spirit AeroSystems to Replace KC-135 Horizontal Stabilizers

WICHITA, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPR) today announced a contract award from The Boeing Company to provide new horizontal stabilizers for U.S. Air Force KC-135R ...
Aviation Week

FAA Issues AD For MD-Series Horizontal Stabilizers

The FAA has issued an airworthiness directive (AD) to detect and correct cracks in the horizontal stabilizer upper center skin panels of all MD-81/82/83/87/88 aircraft. The AD was prompted by a report ...
The Aviationist

U.S. Air Force Viper Demo Team’s F-16 Suffers Horizontal Stabilizer Damage During Display Flight at RIAT 2019

The pilot declared emergency and landed safely. A pretty unusual incident occurred to the USAF Viper Demo Team F-16C 96-0080 at RIAT (Royal International Air Tattoo), at RAF Fairford, UK, on Jul. 21, ...
WGNO

Improved Empennage Supports Handling and Flight Characteristics

TORRANCE, Calif., Dec. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Robinson Helicopter Company (RHC), the world’s leading manufacturer of civil helicopters, secured approval from EASA authority, Argentina, Japan, ...
Aviation Week

EASA Orders Change To Airbus A330/340 Trimmable Horizontal Stabilizer Actuators

The European Aviation Safety Agency is ordering swaps of high-cycle trimmable horizontal stabilizer actuators (THSAs) on Airbus A330s and older A340s after tests on a similar design fitted on A380s ...
Business Insider

Robinson Helicopter’s Symmetrical Horizontal Stabilizer Now Approved for All Models by European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), Argentina, Japan, and India

TORRANCE, Calif., Dec. 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Robinson Helicopter Company (RHC), the world’s leading manufacturer of civil helicopters, secured approval from EASA authority, Argentina, Japan, ...