In Brief

A study has shown that about $590 million in economic benefits have been created through film production at Los Angeles-area airports. The study credits the film-friendly approach of the local airport authority in keeping productions in the area… The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says its up to the military and FAA to prevent airborne attacks […]

Cirrus Design on Wednesday announced that its SR22 Turbo received STC approval from Transport Canada. The company unveiled the turbo-normalized SR22 at AirVenture 2006, and obtained an FAA STC for the airplane in November… The FAA recommends owners of some older Cessna models watch for cracking of plastic control wheels. The Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin […]

Martin County, Fla., commissioners are vowing to fight the FAA for control of Witham Field. Commissioners voted to stop accepting federal grants from the agency and launch a lawsuit over the continued use of 460 feet of runway they want to shut down. The FAA has reminded the county that a golf course and YMCA […]

Eclipse Aviation recently hired its 1,000th employee, and is continuing to add about 20 workers a week, as the company begins to fill its order backlog… Boeing and Lockheed Martin are teaming up to bid on federal contracts to build the next-generation air traffic control system… AOPA opposes a request for airspace restrictions above a […]

The captain of a Continental Airlines flight suffered a “serious medical condition” and later died Saturday after the aircraft, with 210 people on board, took off from Houston bound for Puerto Vallarta. The first officer diverted to McAllen-Miller International Airport, where a fresh crew took the holidayers the rest of the way… In case you […]

A memorial fly-in for William Kershner, the flight instructor and aviation manual author who recently died, will be held at Winchester (Tenn.) Airport on February 17… EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2007 in July will feature the U.S. Air Force’s new exhibit, “Heritage to Horizons,” celebrating the 60th anniversary of the USAF… A new $89 million control […]

Physicist Stephen Hawking will get a firsthand opportunity to observe weightlessness. The renowned scholar and author has been offered a free seat on one of Virgin Galactics suborbital space flights in 2009… Snakes On A Plane might be just a movie, but scorpions are the real deal. At least two incidences of scorpion bites were […]

Evektor America‘s SportStar Flight Center program has added six more flight schools, expanding its network to 12 sites, with many more in the works, the company said this week… Extra airspace restrictions will take effect over Washington, D.C., on Jan. 23 for the State of the Union address… Mechanics and ground-support workers at NetJets won […]

Liberty Air Ventures is hoping to open a new FBO at Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport by midsummer. The company is headed by Mary Pilgrim and an all-female board of directors and will compete with the Signature facility already on the field… King Schools has launched a new interactive computer-based video course on the Garmin GNS […]

A 737 that went missing in Indonesia on Monday is still unaccounted for, despite earlier reports that the wreckage was found. About 100 people were on board Adam Air Flight 574, which may have gone down in the Java Sea… Cessna recently received FAA type certification for the Encore+, the latest version of its Encore […]