Aviation News

Hawker Beechcraft has beefed up its sales team in the Middle East and Asia. Dan Keady will head up the division. Jason Liao has been appointed as regional vice president for China and S.E. Asia, while Jeff Anastas, Allan Stanton and Brett Carlson are regional sales directors for India, Africa, Middle East and Australia, respectively.

Kyle Farley has joined Aspen Avionics as vice president of manufacturing. He came from S-Tec, where he was vice president of manufacturing operations.

Two US Airways aircraft clipped wings at Reagan National Airport Sunday. There were no injuries and a total of 63 passengers were booked on later flights … Three people were killed when a helicopter and a Cessna (type not specified) collided above Paraparaumu Airport in New Zealand Saturday. A 30-year-old instructor and 19-year-old student were on […]

The Alaska Airmen’s Association is raffling off a Supercub and tickets are $50 each. For more info send e-mail… Red Bull will host two air races in the U.S. this year, adding Detroit to the schedule, plus San Diego and eight other cities around the world… Diamond Aircraft’s Chinese production facility has been awarded production […]

Steve Zacks Steve Zacks has been promoted to Executive Vice President of Marketing and Chief Marketing Officer for NetJets in the U.S. NetJets CEO Richard Santulli said Zacks earned the promotion through seven years of “strategic thought leadership” at NetJets.

Australian regional airline Rex is predicting some small airlines may not survive a pilot shortage it claims will turn into a “bloodbath” later this year. Rex has started its own flight school but has still cancelled flights because of a lack of pilots … Four Corners Regional Airport in New Mexico was almost closed after a […]

The FAA has published its final rule regarding special training for pilots of Mitsubishi MU-2B series airplanes… The search continues for Japanese balloonist Michio Kanda, who went missing last week while trying to cross the Pacific in a hot-air balloon. He had 20 days’ worth of food and a life raft… The European Union this […]

NOAA Robert Maxson has come out of retirement to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Aviation Weather Center. Maxson retired as head of NOAA’s aircraft operations in 2005 and, in the interim, flew as a research pilot for the National Science Foundation in Boulder, Colo.

The NTSB is investigating the diversion of an American Airlines Boeing 757 to West Palm Beach, Fla., after smoke from a windshield heater filled the cockpit and the inner glass shattered on Friday. A similar incident (without the shattered glass) forced the diversion of another American 757 on Wednesday … The crash of an F-15D […]

The Aviation Weather Center in Kansas City, the nation’s primary source of weather information for flying, has named Robert Maxson, a veteran research pilot, as its new director … “Space weather” scientists in the U.K., who work to protect communication and navigation systems from solar and space threats, are devastated by budget cuts … VirginGalactic will have […]