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Aviation authorities in New Zealand and Australia have grounded a significant number of Robinson R-44 helicopters in response to a fatal crash in New Zealand last week. The affected aircraft have main rotor blades with the part number CO16-7. The groundings affect 80 aircraft (of 184) in New Zealand and an unknown number of the […]

LEE’S SUMMIT, MISSOURI, Jan. 13, 2015 — The Aircraft Electronics Association today unveiled the dates and locations for its 2015 Regional Meetings. The 2015 AEA Regional Meeting schedule is as follows: 2015 AEA Regional Meetings May 4-6: Europe (Barcelona, Spain) Aug. 18-19: Latin America (Bogota, Colombia) Sept. 10-11: U.S. Central (Kansas City, Missouri) Sept. 21-22: […]

WICHITA, Kan., Aug. 21, 2014 – Beechcraft Corporation, a subsidiary of Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, today announced it has delivered two Beechcraft T-6C+ military trainers ordered earlier this year to the Mexican Navy Secretaria de Marina (SEMAR), as well as one King Air 350ER, the second of four on order, as […]

He can live like a king but Prince William (who usually goes by the Duke of Cambridge) would apparently rather be an HEMS pilot. The flying bug is apparently still biting the former military search and rescue helicopter pilot and the people who speak for him are all but confirming the reports. The prince is […]

A trip around the patch at a controlled airport in New Zealand will soon carry a $1 NZD charge under a user fee schedule announced by the Airways Corporation of New Zealand, the “state-owned enterprise” that runs the country’s airspace system. By 2015, however, that same touch and go will cost $3.55 NZD as will […]

EAA has reportedly confirmed that it’s talking with “Jetman” Yves Rossy to perform at AirVenture 2013. AOPA Online reported that the talks, which will include Rossy’s sponsor Breitling, are under way but the performance is far from a sure thing. “Our people have talked with him and his group. Nothing is confirmed,” EAA spokesman Dick […]

The former director of a flight school in New Zealand, Ravindra Pal Singh, 65, has been found guilty by a local District Court judge of separately assaulting two student pilots while providing instruction to them in the air. One student testified that Singh had slapped him in the face and pushed his head into the […]

A Boeing BBJ set a new world speed record over the weekend, the company said, flying from Los Angeles to New Zealand nonstop — a distance of 5,658 nautical miles — in 13 hours, 7 minutes and 54 seconds. The airplane landed with 7,800 pounds of fuel still in the tanks. The jet, a modified […]

A fiery hot air balloon crash in New Zealand Saturday morning killed 11 people, making it the country’s worst aviation accident in more than 30 years. Witnesses said the balloon, carrying five couples and the pilot, was on fire and some reported a 30-foot jet of flame coming from the basket as it came down […]

In the wake of airline chaos in the burgeoning number of trouble spots around the world, private aviation is filling a void and British company Air Partner, which can arrange aircraft that can carry up to 650 people, has been especially busy evacuating expatriates from places they and their families would rather not be. As […]