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You might not think that Marines in Afghanistan would have much free time, but even under stressful conditions of deployment, 15 Marines are taking advantage of a chance to complete a free private pilot ground school and work toward passing their FAA knowledge test. Capt. Gabriel Glinsky, who is a CFI and the pilot of […]

Lockheed Martin says service will not suffer when it closes seven of the remaining 13 Automated Flight Service Stations on Feb. 1 and lays off another 160 flight service specialists and management personnel. Lockheed Martin spokeswoman Jan Gottfredsen told AVweb that a 13-percent reduction in call volume combined with efficiencies gained with a new communications […]

Cessna has delivered its first Light Sport Aircraft model 162 Skycatcher to Rose Pelton, the wife of Cessna president and CEO Jack Pelton, Dec. 18. The first delivery was announced at AOPA Summit 2009 in Tampa in November. The company held a ceremony Friday at Yingling Aircraft in Wichita, Kan., which is one of three […]

Each week, we run a sampling of the letters received to our editorial inbox here in AVmail. One letter that’s particularly relevant, informative, or otherwise compelling will headline this section as our “Letter of the Week,” and we’ll send the author an official AVweb baseball cap as a “thank you” for interacting with us (and […]

The FAA this week published a final rule prohibiting takeoffs with “polished frost,” which it defines as “frost buffed to make it smooth,” on the wings, stabilizers and control surfaces of aircraft operated under fractional or charter rules. The rule requires operators to remove any frost adhering to critical surfaces prior to takeoff. Since most […]

Click for the FAA’s PDF On Monday, the FAA issued its final version of new flight rules for the VFR corridor above New Yor’s Hudson River. The new rules, which take effect on Thursday, Nov. 19, create two separate levels for VFR traffic, with the aim to prevent another midair like the one in August […]

AOPA launches its new version of the former AOPA Expo in Tampa this week, and despite the stubbornly down economy, organizers expect a full exhibit hall and attendance close to what it was for the last Tampa event, four years ago. “The AOPA Aviation Summit will still have the wide variety of exhibitors and aircraft […]

The first production line assembled-in-China Cessna 162 Skycatcher to be flown took flight Thursday at Cessna’s Shenyang production facility in northeast China, performing “a number of handling quality tests during the flight,” Cessna said in a news release. The “first” here means that the particular aircraft was “fabricated and assembled on production tooling.” Cessna in […]

The NTSB on Wednesday released its docket of documents related to the fatal crash of a firefighting helicopter in California in August 2008… A story in Air & Space Smithsonian laments the impending loss of Langley wind tunnel, as advocates rally to prevent its destruction… Friends of aerobatic pilot Vicki Cruse, who died recently in […]

The NTSB has released a new animation depicting the collision. Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. The FAA on Wednesday published its proposed new rules that would modify the VFR airspace above the Hudson River in New York, in […]