In Brief

The FAA has proposed an Airworthiness Directive (AD) on Sandel ST3400 terrain awareness warning systems/radio magnetic indicator (TAWS/RMI) units. A combination software and input signal glitch caused a bearing error. New software is on the way… Sport Pilot TV has been picked up by Time Warner and will soon be available to 40 million viewers. […]

EAA’s B-17 Aluminum Overcast flew on Tuesday afternoon, the first flight after 19 months of work to repair damage from a landing accident in 2004… Gulfstream Aerospace will expand its manufacturing and service facilities in Savannah, Ga., investing $300 million over seven years and adding 1,100 jobs, the company said on Monday… The Highland Lakes […]

Don’t blame lax security on the theft of a Cessna 182 from Marana Airport in Arizona last week. To get the plane airborne and headed for Mexico, the thief had to defeat keypad access, a padlock on the hangar and the plane’s own locks… The FAA is looking at new routes over New Jersey to […]

An international aircraft registry went live today allowing airlines, individuals and governments to register their interests in airframes, helicopters and engines in a one-size-fits-all database. Proponents say the registry will save governments and industry billions of dollars… Retired Brig. Gen. Robert L. Scott, a former Flying Tiger and author of God Is My Co-Pilot, died […]

The FAA has published a new “plain-language” version of the Washington, D.C., restricted airspace NOTAM… NATCA has asked for a mediator to help with FAA contract talks… The FAA proposes some tweaks to ECi cylinder-assembly Airworthiness Directive… Two 737s collided at Newark on Monday while taxiing, no injuries but long delays ensued… FAA noise rules […]

A controller at LAX last week mistakenly cleared three aircraft at once for the same runway… Plans for a new GA airport in Virginia have stalled due to landowner opposition… FAA and ICAO agreed this week to new international standards for aviation English proficiency, including a Standard Aviation English Test, to be in place by […]

A retired Air Force pilot is the FAA’s new top doctor. Dr. Frederick Tilton is replacing Dr. Jon Jordan as Federal Air Surgeon after serving six years as Jordan’s deputy. Tilton logged 4,000 hours in the Air Force, starting with the B-47 and ending with the F-15 before retiring as a colonel in 1988… The […]

A fleet of L-39 warbirds was confiscated in Alaska by the FBI… A local newspaper supports GA pilots opposing permanent airspace restrictions over Washington, D.C…. Boeing on Monday delivered its 5,000th 737, to Southwest Airlines… An IPO at Eclipse Aviation? Not this year, company spokesman Andrew Broom told AVweb… Jeppesen has released a NavData Alert […]

FEMA has stored over 10,000 house trailers, which have not yet been used to aid Katrina victims, at the Hope, Ark., airport. Here’s what that looks like from the window of a 1947 Luscombe flown by AVweb reader Doug McDowall… Cessna and FAA to begin talks on Wednesday over a proposed $840,000 fine… An airplane […]

Two small aircraft collided yesterday over El Cajon, CA, shortly before 5 p.m. local time. Three souls, all aboard the aircraft, were lost. Multiple eye witnesses compared what they saw to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster — a star shaped explosion in the sky with flaming debris raining down. The wreckage fell into a largely […]