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PDFPlates.com is working to make FAA approach plates downloadable to your Kindle at no charge. If you’d like to be a beta tester, contact them… An Australian helicopter pilot dragged his passenger to shore and buried him neck-deep in sand to protect him from hypothermia Sunday night after they crashed in remote crocodile-infested mudflats. Rescuers […]

L-3 Avionic Systems has sued Cirrus Design, seeking $18 million because Cirrus canceled its plan to buy avionics for its jet from L-3 and switched to Garmin instead… Owners of certain Bonanzas and Barons affected by a circuit-breaker airworthiness directive with an Aug. 6 deadline now have an extension, but must follow strict procedures, as […]

Steve Aliment Steve Aliment is Bombardier’s new regional vice president of sales for Europe. Aliment previously spent 25 years at Boeing.

The Paris Air Show opens today under the shadow of the crash of Air France 447 and an economic slowdown that is keeping some companies, including Cessna and Gulfstream, from attending. Still, more than 2,000 vendors are there and 300,000 people are expected to attend… The Canadian Forces Snowbirds air demonstration team has been grounded […]

At least one person survived the crash of New Mexico state helicopter in a snowstorm on 12,000-foot Sante Fe Baldy Mountain. The fate of the other two onboard was not known at our deadline… President Barack Obama has nominated NTSB member Deborah Hersman to fill the role of NTSB chairman… Peter Besenyei, inventor of the […]

Pilot Journey Airplane Sales has added two staff members. Dan Luketic will be Director of Airplane Sales and Marketing, and Doris Fowler will be the Assistant to the Director.

Don Campion Don Campion, president of Banyan Air Services, was inducted into the Florida Aviation Trades Association (FATA) Entrepreneurial Excellence Hall of Fame. Banyan opened 30 years ago at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport.

The FAA agreed this week to pay $3.75 million to the families of three people who died in a 2005 ditching off the Florida coast. The FAA did not admit to any fault in the accident… A new glove designed for pilots features a built-in LED light for night flying… A 17-year-old private pilot made […]

AOPA has asked the FAA to postpone its recent airworthiness directive affecting more than 17,000 Cessna 150s and 152s… The new FAA funding bill mandates twice-yearly inspections of Part 145 certificated repair facilities located abroad, which has the Aircraft Electronics Association concerned… The NTSB has released a preliminary report on the Ecoflyer accident in which […]

An Indonesian C-130 crashed on the island of Java Wednesday morning with 112 people on board, 68 died… A Cessna 172 and Cessna 310 collided in midair above the ocean off Long Beach, Calif., on Monday, three people were killed… Chalkie Stobbart, of South Africa, broke a record set in 1939 for a solo round-trip […]