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In parallel with the political campaign season comes aviation’s annual rite of spring: the battle over user fees. No sooner than did the Obama administration’s proposed budget come off the press than my inbox filled with a half dozen press releases from the alphabets decrying users fees. By now, I think they can just change […]

Submit a Photo |Rules |Tips |Questions |Past Winners Each week, we go through dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of reader-submitted photos and pick the very best to share with you on Thursday mornings – and one photo that stands above the others is awarded an AVweb baseball cap as our “Picture of the Week.” Want to […]

Rescued from a scrap yard in 1997, the restored two-seat, first-generation, ex-RAF 4 SQN Harrier Jump Jet currently available on ebay.co.uk was accepting bids over $112,000, when last we checked, but if you want an engine you’ll be paying more. Its current owner, 33-year-old former RAF mechanic, Chris Wilson, says the decommissioned display-worthy aircraft could […]

Both pilots survived, one with injuries, when two Royal Air Force Red Arrows BAE Hawk jets collided while flying a crossing maneuver during practice at Heraklion in Crete, Tuesday. One aircraft crashed after the contact but its pilot, Flight Lieutenant Mike Ling, ejected at about 1000 feet, suffering cuts and a dislocated shoulder. The second […]

The first European Aerial Firefighting Conference was held Oct. 21 and 22 in Athens, Greece, and it collected operators and suppliers from 22 nations running in association with the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. Primarily formed to address technologies and techniques to improve the efficacy and safety of aerial firefighting, the conference has […]

[AVweb’s reprint of A Pilot’s History began with Chapter 1.] Jenks had done a very good job on the executive aircraft (see Chap. 10, Part 1), proving he was a very talented man. A few days later, he had a meeting with Al and Ray and thereafter did not appear at work. Thomas, the individual […]

IFC Launch Customer For Tu-204 Russian leasing giant Ilyushin Finance (IFC) announced an order for 31 Tupolev Tu-204SM twin-jets from United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) in a $1.5bn order. This makes it the launch customer for the upgraded Tu-204. IFC’s deal also contains options for 30 more Tu-204SM aircraft,, which will bring the value of the […]

EASA Eases Up Flight Crew Licensing Regulations The British Business and General Aviation Association (BBGA) has highlighted the fact that the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is creating three Notices of Proposed Amendment (NPA) covering the introduction of EASA flight crew licensing (FCL) and flight operations. These are staggered, so that the first appeared in […]

A Diamond Star DA40XL successfully flew a 16-hour, 52-minute, 2250=nm nonstop leg from Japan to Nome, Alaska, as part of an around-the-world flight that began May 11 at Diamond’s London, Ontario, facility. The trip for new owner Marc Aurel Lehman was facilitated by an extra fuel tank and the company of Karl-Heinz Maxwitat. On an […]

Hope On The Horizon For Easier Flying Aero Expo at Prague had a solid showing earlier this year, and was host to an important European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) meeting. The agency announced its proposal for simpler and lighter regulations regarding airworthiness.What this means practically is that it will supposedly be easier to certify aircraft […]