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A potential blast from the past interrupted the massive expansion of Diamond Aircraft’s European headquarters last week. Employees were evacuated when workers digging the foundation of the new 100,000-square-foot composite facility unearthed a couple of unexploded World War II bombs. Diamond’s factory, at Wiener-Neustadt Airport in Austria, was the site of a Messershmitt ME 109 […]

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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Cessna Owner and Pipers Magazines. My wife, Kate, has been taking flying lessons on-and-off for a few years now. She’s been taking every opportunity to practice, so was up and out at the airport bright and early one Sunday while yours truly slept in.When the phone rang, I […]

There are no more than a handful left. You can count the ones that are currently airworthy on one hand, and the ones that are flying regularly can be counted on the fingers needed to hold a good cigar. Of the more than 5900 built between 1940 and 1944, that’s all there are in the […]

Raytheon Aircraft Services announced it will sell its Rockford, Ill., fixed-base operation to Emery Air Inc., its neighbor at the Greater Rockford Airport. Emery says it will retain most of the 43 Raytheon employees and will remain an authorized service center for several Raytheon aircraft, including the King Air, Baron, Bonanza and Hawker 400XP. Raytheon […]

The Ups And Downs At Cessna Cessna Streamlines Production Process For The Sovereign … Production of Cessna’s Sovereign business jet has taken off thanks to a new construction process being used at the factory. The company has implemented new retooling that promises to cut time and improve overall quality. Cessna claims this state-of-the-art technology allows […]

GA Numbers Are Up… Well, if the assembled nabobs of the aviation industry were bracing for yet another doom-and-gloom speech, they must have been positively blinded by AOPA President Phil Boyer’s rose-colored glasses Wednesday. Boyer told the Aero Club of Washington that general aviation is bucking the trends and showing healthy growth in most areas. […]

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Beleaguered aerospace workers in Wichita got a small break in late April, one they might technically not be entitled to, but welcome nonetheless. Thanks to some furious lobbying by one of their congressmen, Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Goddard), the Department of Labor has agreed to apply an unemployment insurance benefit extension for laid-off airline workers to […]

EBACE 2003 In Review Numbers Up, Great Expectations … With the U.S. economy in the dumps and aircraft sales almost nil, several general aviation manufacturers hoped to turn the tide by showcasing their product lines overseas at the largest European business aircraft event. Held from May 7 to 9 in Geneva, Switzerland, the European Business […]