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Key Takeaways:

  • Jeppesen will cease updating NavData databases for some older IFR GPS receivers starting next year.
  • Vicki Van Meter, celebrated for her cross-country flight at age 11, died at 26 by apparent suicide.
  • Mexico's crackdown on aerial drug trafficking is increasing the threat to specific aircraft types as they are sought to replace seized planes.
  • Big Sky Airlines ceased operations due to cuts in federal funding for essential air services.
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Jeppesen will stop updating NavData databases for some older IFR GPS receivers as of next year, says AOPA

Vicki Van Meter, who was celebrated for piloting an airplane across the country in 1993 at age 11, died Saturday, an apparent suicide. She was 26…

Officials in Mexico have cracked down on aerial drug trafficking, and the Aviation Crime Prevention Institute says this has created a need to replace seized aircraft, increasing the threat to King Airs, Caravans and Cessna cabin-class twins, as well as Cessna single-engine models…

Big Sky Airlines, of Montana, flew for the last time last week, a victim of cuts in federal funding for essential air services…

A helicopter system that monitors the condition of components is being tested in research flights at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University.

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