Pilot, Jeff Pino, Fatally Injured In The Accident

ANN RealTime Update -- 020516, 2114 ET: ANN is aggrieved to confirm that the aircraft involved in this tragedy was none other than former Sikorsky Boss Jeff Pino's 'Big Beautiful Doll.' A good friend and a member of the 'Let Bob Fly' inner circle, Pino has been confirmed as having died in the crash, and that another person was on board when the aircraft went down. The second ID has yet to be confirmed. The accident site has left little clue as to what happened and the so-called witness reports don't lend a lot of data as yet. However; something appears to have gone quite wrong in that the impact debris ring suggests a high-speed, near-vertical, impact. We're going to be very interested in what happ

Second Contract Provides For Support Of The Aircraft

A contract has been signed between Affinity Flying Training Services and Beechcraft Defense Company under which Beechcraft will provide 10 Beechcraft T-6C Texan II military training aircraft to the U.K. Ministry of Defence’s Military Flying Training System (UKMFTS) program.

Deliveries To Begin In The Fourth Quarter Of 2016

MD Helicopters has been successful in its bid to supply six MD 530G Scout Attack Helicopters to Malaysia’s Ministry of Defense. MDHI will deliver the launch helicopters to Malaysian Army Aviation (Pasukan Udara Tentera Darat; PUTD) beginning in the fourth quarter of 2016, with the full fleet to deliver by the end of Q1 2017.

Planning Stopped For The Show, Which Would Be The First Since 2012

Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington State recently announced plans to hold an airshow at the base in August for the first time since 2012, but for now, the base has shelved those plans.