Believe it or not, pigs can fly—or at least one can, in the form of a Cessna Citation XLS+ that Duncan Aviation painted to look like a winged pig for Ripley’s Believe It or Not! The Lincoln, Nebraska-based MRO provider, which is exhibiting this week at NBAA-BACE, unveiled the flying work of art on Friday.

Painted in 17 colors, the “flying pig” sports a gold nose ring and a gold earring shaped like a rubber chicken. White feathered wings decorate the fuselage above the airplane’s actual wings, which are painted to resemble a partly cloudy blue sky. Ripley’s branding appears on the engines and tail. 

“They don’t call us Believe It or Not! for nothing,” said Ripley’s president Jim Pattison Jr.

Completion sales representative Angie Coleman said the job began when the chief pilot of another airplane Duncan had delivered asked whether the company could paint a Ripley’s design he had seen. That concept differed from the one Ripley’s submitted for a quote a couple of months later, she said, because of the need to adjust the flat design for the jet's body.

Lead designer Hannah Mann said translating flat art onto the curves of the fuselage, wings, and engines took close collaboration between the two companies’ designers. She said her work included refining the artwork and placement, selecting colors and finishes, and coordinating with the paint team.

An Indian Beechcraft King Air C90A air ambulance aircraft made an emergency landing on Sunday after a sudden loss of cabin pressure forced its main door open at about 12,000 feet. The twin turboprop (VT-HYA) operated by Delhi-based charter operator SKB Infracon was flying from Agartala to Kolkata in northeast India when it had to divert to Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (VGHS) in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka. 

After landing, a critically ill 56-year-old patient on board was transferred to a local hospital. According to local media reports, the patient, who was an employee of the Airports Authority of India, died soon afterwards. 

The King Air’s crew are waiting on the ground in Dhaka for airworthiness clearance from India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to fly back to Delhi. The agency has begun an investigation to determine the cause of the depressurization.

“While the cause has not been determined, abrupt cabin‑pressure loss can cause shock and aggravate hypoxia in vulnerable patients,” Rohit Kapur, founder of aircraft sales group The Jet Company, told AIN. He is a former president of India’s Business Aircraft Operators Association.

According to an Indian government official speaking with AIN on condition of anonymity, the FAA will next month conduct a safety audit of the DGCA’s airworthiness and flight operations oversight. The source said this action had been prompted by a series of safety incidents in 2025.

The FAA has proposed fines totaling $351,000 against Creamer Pilot Services for allegedly conducting unauthorized passenger flights. In a statement issued on Monday, the agency said that the company, which operates under the name Jett Aircraft, made 31 trips with passengers on board in aircraft that were “not on its operations specifications.”

The Fayatteville, Arkansas-based company, which was formed in 2011 by director of operations Lance Creamer, said it will appeal the proposed fine. “Creamer Pilot Services disagrees with the allegations in the FAA’s notice and intends to address them through the appropriate process,” the company told AIN in a written response to questions. “We take our regulatory obligations seriously and will cooperate with the FAA as it reviews the matter. We look forward to the opportunity to present the facts and respond to the allegations directly.”

According to the FAA, the 31 unauthorized flights were made on various dates between October 2021 and July 2022. The agency further alleges that six more passenger-carrying flights were made in aircraft that were on the company’s operations specifications but that were not authorized for trips outside the contiguous 48 U.S. states. These violations were reported to have happened between April and November 2022. 

NBAA honored hundreds of companies and individuals yesterday at BACE in recognition of the industry’s concerted efforts to elevate safety. The organization presented its Flying Safety Awards for the period ending Dec. 31, 2025 immediately after the opening general session. These recognitions cross a swath of the industry, including companies that have accrued 75, 60, and 50 years of safe flying. 

“It’s an honor to host the NBAA Safety Awards Ceremony and help recognize the individuals and organizations whose extraordinary commitment to professionalism and safety has made business aviation stronger for all of us.” said influencer and The Pink Jet president and pilot Stephanie Goetz, who hosted the awards. 

These awards demonstrate the professionalism and safety culture within participating companies, NBAA added. “In business aviation, safety is our highest priority and a core value,” said NBAA interim COO Dan Hubbard.

Honorees included Whirlpool, receiving the 75-Year Flying Safety Award; Cargill and Eli Lilly, the 60-Year Flying Safety Award; and The Anschutz Corp., the 50-Year Flying Safety Award.

In addition, 14 companies were named for Commercial Business Flying awards for 789,268 cumulative hours; 141 companies for Corporate Business Flying awards for 6,601,059 cumulative hours; 175 companies are named for Maintenance Department Safety awards; 305 pilots for Pilot Safety awards: for 1,974,004 cumulative hours; 83 for Scheduler/Licensed Dispatcher Safety awards; 252 recipients for Support Services Safety awards; and 175 for Avionics/Maintenance Technician Safety awards.

What began in Memphis in 1996 with a vision to bring genuine hospitality to aviation has grown into a 30-year legacy. Across Memphis, Houston, and Chattanooga, Wilson Air Center continues to combine exceptional customer service, comfortable facilities, and a personal touch—creating an FBO experience that keeps customers coming back.

Northwell Health’s MD Onboard has launched a pediatric emergency medical advisory service for its passenger gate screening and inflight medical events products. This includes 24/7 access to two-way video with board-certified emergency physicians specializing in pediatric medicine. 

Also on tap for the MD Onboard aviation medical platform is a partnership with the Centre for Aviation Psychology (CAP), which provides mental health, resilience, and peer support solutions for aircraft operators. 

Children account for 9% to 12% of reported inflight medical emergencies, according to MD Onboard, citing published studies. “Children are not simply smaller adults, particularly in an emergency and especially within the constraints of an aircraft cabin,” said MD Onboard CEO Grant Jeffery.

He added, “Introducing dedicated pediatric emergency medicine expertise into the inflight environment represents an important advancement in aviation medical care. By offering this service, we are creating a more precise, specialist-led model, connecting the right clinical expertise, technology, and operational context to every case in real time.”

Clients will benefit from MD Onboard’s and CAP’s confidential peer support, resilience resources, clinical escalation pathways, and critical incident support. Its anonymized reporting is also aligned with aircraft operators’ safety management systems. 

“Crew wellbeing is no longer a standalone HR topic,” said MD Onboard chief growth officer Wehda El Aridi. “It is a core component of operational resilience, safety culture, and organizational performance.”

The National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) leaders unveiled the 2027 class of inductees, naming six individuals who have made groundbreaking contributions to aviation and aerospace. These individuals have left their mark through a spectrum of accomplishments that furthered flight, space exploration, education, safety, aviation economics, and philanthropy, and sparked the interest and imagination of new generations.

NAHF president and CEO Aimee Maruyama announced the slate during a reception on Monday during NBAA-BACE, with three of the inductees present: Mars Helicopter project originator and chief engineer J. Bob Balaram, former NASA chief astronaut and renowned aviation safety advocate Charles Precourt, and philanthropist and aviation leasing pioneer Steven Udvar-Hazy. The other members of the class include model rocketry innovator and entrepreneur Vernon Estes, the late astronaut Judith Resnik, and the late Neal Vernon Loving, who was a trailblazing aviator, aircraft designer, and aeronautical engineer.

They join 283 other individuals enshrined to date, some of whom were in attendance for the 2027 announcement. Enshrinees are selected by the NAHF Board of Nominations, composed of a panel of aviation professionals. The induction ceremony for the newest class will be held on Sept. 24, 2027, in Dayton, Ohio.

Since the introduction of the Sentry ADS-B In receiver in 2018, uAvionix, which manufactures the devices, and design partner Jeppesen ForeFlight have shipped more than 100,000 of the various models.

With a built-in attitude and heading reference system (AHRS), GPS for situational awareness, and a carbon monoxide (CO) detector, Sentry receivers also provide traffic and weather information on pilots’ iPhones and iPads. Pilots have reported CO alerts that prevented serious problems, as well as relying on ForeFlight’s synthetic vision coupled with the Sentry’s AHRS when avionics and vacuum pump failures threatened the safety of flight. 

The most capable model is the $799 Sentry Plus with dual-band ADS-B traffic, subscription-free weather (in the U.S.), GPS, AHRS, CO detection, an integrated display, and more than 20 hours of battery life. The mid-level $649 Sentry has most of the same features but not the display or the Sentry Plus’s flight data recorder, and it has a 12-hour battery life. The $449 Sentry Mini includes ADS-B In traffic and weather but no CO detector or AHRS, and it requires USB-C power.

“We’re proud to work alongside Jeppesen ForeFlight to build a product pilots depend on,” said uAvionix v-p crewed aviation Shane Woodson, “and especially proud when pilots tell us how a CO warning, traffic alert, weather information, or backup attitude capability helped them safely manage a difficult situation.”

Bluetail is demonstrating Auto Research at NBAA-BACE 2026, an AI-based tool the company said shortens aircraft records research time to a fraction of what operators normally need for information gathering.

Workflows designed for easy Auto Research access include conformities, maintenance-tracking audits, pre-purchase inspections, and record gap analysis. When searching for pertinent records such as airworthiness directives, service bulletins, and component status, the results are automatically linked to the actual record and supporting documentation. 

For conformity requirements, “Auto Research takes the conformity checklist and automatically finds the strongest supporting record for each requirement, dramatically reducing the manual hunt through aircraft records,” according to Bluetail.

Auto Research simplifies pre-purchase evaluations by researching information on key inspections, components, and other compliance items to help buyers determine whether an aircraft meets the advertised history and if there are any gaps or inconsistencies.  

A record gap analysis can be helpful before an audit, checking known requirements against the data “to identify missing or conflicting evidence,” Bluetail explained. This is also useful when selling an aircraft or returning it from a lease, and during an annual records review.

“Bluetail is moving aircraft records beyond digital storage and search to actionable aviation intelligence,” the aircraft records solutions provider said, “using AI to transform decades of maintenance records into trusted insights for continuous compliance.”