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The Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA") has released its long-awaited Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("NPRM") concerning commercial use of small UAS ("sUAS")...

In a historic step for the aviation industry, the FAA on June 21 adopted codified standards, the first for small unmanned aerial systems ("sUAS").

Inexpensive aerial newsgathering may be inching closer to takeoff in a few years, with the federal government's release this week of its first detailed plan for commercial use of unmanned aerial vehicles in the United States

The federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the FAA's model aircraft registration regulation passed a very important milestone last week.

In 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed, finding that the certification process does not automatically preempt the entire field of safe design.

In addition to suing the airline and the aircraft manufacturer, among others, the plaintiffs sued a former owner of the aircraft, Wells Fargo Trust Company.

The Florida Second District Court of Appeal recently reversed a trial court's determination that it had jurisdiction over Robinson Helicopter Company ("Robinson")...

Iconic California tech companies are helping to pioneer the drone revolution. For over a year, Google's advanced-research arm, Google X, has been testing its Project Wing aircraft...

On December 14, 2005 the Court of First Instance (“CFI”) finally rendered its judgments on the appeals against the European Commission’s 2001 decision prohibiting the proposed merger between Honeywell International and General Electric Company (“GE”). There is no possibility of resurrecting the original transaction, and the appeal was brought as a matter of principle. Although the CFI has affirmed the Commission’s decision, this may well be a pyrrhic victory. On the controversial issues – ver

It is now seven months and counting since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, and commercial aviation faces a crisis like nothing it has seen before.

The two happiest days in a boat owner's life are the day they purchase the boat and the day they sell it, or so the old adage goes.

When the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issues a pre-emptive press release ahead of a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) board meeting, it is a recognition that the NTSB...

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) on Nov. 14, 2022, issued a Russia-related General License 40C

On April 20, 2010, a fire and explosion occurred onboard the Deepwater Horizon, a mobile offshore drilling unit owned by Transocean Ltd. and, at the time, operated for BP Exploration & Production, Inc. ("BP").

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is the federal investigative agency generally given priority in the investigation of all civil aviation accidents and significant accidents in the surface modes.

An Illinois appellate court, applying New York law, has held that a release of "all other entities" from liability arising out of, or related to, an aircraft incident...

On July 10, the USAF awarded an indefinite-delivery-indefinite-quantity contract to 14 space industry companies under the Hosted Payload Solutions program.

On September 18, Avanti Communications Group plc (Avanti) and SES S.A. (SES) announced that they have entered into a frequency coordination agreement whereby Avanti will transfer to SES certain Ka-band spectrum rights valued at $25.1m and lease from SES a steerable Ka-band beam on the Astra 5B satellite operating at 31.5°E.