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When Adam Leon, 31, took off from an Ontario flight school in a stolen Cessna 172 last April and flew across the border into the U.S., it was an act of desperation — he was suicidal and hoping that he would be shot down, his lawyer said. But this week, a federal court in St. […]

While the FAA continues to work on long-awaited new rules to cope with pilot fatigue, the Air Line Pilots Association this week announced its own new policy, which it says is based on the latest science and three years of work. “With the FAA’s commitment to issue a new proposed flight- and duty-time rule by […]

With more than 1,000 orders for its Skycatcher LSA booked, Cessna is moving apace to bring the airplane into series production, and it showed up at AOPA Summit in Tampa with a conforming airplane. Cessna’s Kirby Ortega told AVweb the airplane in display was built in Wichita, although the wings – which we inspected carefully […]

Henry Schachar has been promoted from President to Executive Vice Chairman of Marquis Jets. Ken Austin will take over as President. (Austin was formerly Executive Vice President.) Both have been with the company since 2001, and Schachar is co-founder.

Lancair’s Evolution turboprop kit prototype is on a tour of California and Arizona with stops in Hayward, Santa Monica, Copperstate Fly-In and San Diego. Demo flights will be available at all locations… Michael Moore’s latest movie Capitalism: A Love Story devotes a significant amount of time, including an interview with Flight 1549 Capt. Chesley Sullenberger, […]

Jason Miller Jason Miller has been appointed general manager of StandardAero’s Houston Intercontinental Airport facility. Miller has been acting GM of the facility since April.

Kenneth Weaver Kenneth Weaver has been named the vice president of marketing for Remos Aircraft. He has more than 18 years of related experience with a variety of companies.

Tann Chesley Tann Chesley is the new vice president of Skytech Inc. He is working out of the company’s new FBO at Carroll County Regional Airport in Westminster, Md.

Don Antonucci has been named chairman of the board of directors of Metron Aviation, which specializes in air traffic management. He retired in 2006 as president of Lockheed Martin.

The NTSB says the uncommanded pitch-up that occurred in July 2008 aboard an MD-81 carrying then-Senator Barack Obama was the result of an inadvertent partial inflation of the evacuation slide and subsequent binding of the elevator control cables… Thieves in Sweden used a helicopter as their getaway vehicle after robbing a cash depot in Stockholm. […]