Aviation News

Virgin America has attained tentative approval to fly in the U.S. after making changes in leadership and structure to distance itself from Richard Branson and his British Virgin Airlines… A computer glitch that affected six new F-22 Raptors as they crossed the International Dateline in the Pacific Ocean caused all systems — navigation, communications, weapons, […]

Embraer’s recycling program earned it $6.6 million in 2006, claiming 79.6 percent of its recyclables and weighing in at 9.947 tons. The program has grown 5 percent since 2005. Eclipse Aviation last Wednesday delivered the second Eclipse 500 (S/N 003) to an unidentified customer, company spokesman Andrew Broom confirmed. He told AVweb that Eclipse will […]

Raytheon received experimental airworthiness certificates for its Cobra unmanned aerial vehicle program. The certification will allow five aircraft to operate in civilian airspace under the tight regulations that govern such flights… The Province of Ontario is spending $5 million on a workforce training center that may convince Diamond Aircraft to build its D-Jet in its […]

Some House Democrats are trying to get legislation passed that would force the FAA to resume contract negotiations with air traffic controllers… Nominations are invited for the Scott Crossfield aerospace educator of the year award; go to the National Aviation Hall of Fame Web site for details… A team of college students in Israel hopes […]

Russ Chew, the former Chief Operating Officer of the FAA, has moved to JetBlue in a similar capacity. Itll be Chews job to ensure there are no further meltdowns like the one on Feb. 14 that stranded thousands of passengers, some of them locked inside stationary aircraft for 10 hours… It will be quieter than […]

The FAA has released a final version of an airworthiness directive that requires seat modifications on many single-engine Cessna aircraft… The mysterious wreckage of a Cessna 180 recently found in a Louisiana swamp has been identified as the remains of a 1966 crash… A fire destroyed several historic aircraft and other artifacts belonging to Iowa’s […]

Cessna says its Mach 0.92 Citation X is gaining popularity, announcing this week that production for the aircraft has risen 40 percent since 2003 and continues to rise to meet demand. More than 260 Citation Xs have been delivered and the model’s order backlog extends well into 2008. Cessna delivered 307 business jets last year, […]

Plans to remove weather forecasters from Air Route Traffic Control Centers might be reviewed by the Government Accountability Office. Opponents say the move will endanger flight operations because weather information wont be as readily available to pilots and controllers… EAA members in Hawaii are lobbying the state to include aviation fueling stations in a bill […]

Piaggio will announce a new jet design by the end of this year, a company official said this week. The jet, currently known as the P-1XX, is expected to sell for $15 million… Cirrus Design and Jeppesen are teaming to provide a Web-based transition course for Cirrus pilots, the first in a series of courses […]

New Zealand planemaker Alpha Aviation has hired former Mooney CEO Gretchen Jahn as general manager to take resurrection of the French-designed Robin series to the next level. The Alpha 160, a low-wing trainer, is made in Hamilton, N.Z. and recently gained FAA certification… Dayton, Ohio, is the heart of a new aviation tourism marketing program. […]