Aviation News

A 20-year-old man bolted through security at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on Saturday and got as far as the cockpit of an Air Canada aircraft getting ready to leave one of the gates. He was subdued by the crew and remains in jail for questioning … Four people survived and six died in the crash […]

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has been awarded a $2 million FAA grant to help develop the “Airport of the Future” at Daytona Beach International Airport … An Australian traveler had to destroy two valuable bottles of vintage wine that were not allowed past an airport security checkpoint … The pilot and two medical technicians died when […]

A man who was injured and his wife, who was killed, in a Michigan plane crash Thursday were the parents of a young woman killed in a plane crash in 2006. Yatish Joshi and his wife Louise Addicott were aboard a Cessna 310 that went down near East Bay Township. Their daughter Georgina Joshi, 24, […]

A 12-year-old girl from California was the sole survivor when a single-engine Cessna crashed in Panama, killing her friend, her friend’s father, and a pilot … FAA updates and clarifies Hartzell prop Airworthiness Directive … FAA’s Commercial Aviation Safety Team launched a new web site, Cast-Safety.org, about efforts to make commercial air travel safer.

EAA has confirmed several top acts for its 2008 AirVenture air show. Among those performing will be Sean D. Tucker, Patty Wagstaff, the AeroShell Aerobatic Team, the Warbird Spectaculars, Matt Younkin and Kyle Franklin … Rob Reider, the voice of numerous air shows as an announcer, has been named the 2007 recipient of the Sword […]

An Air Force C-17 Globemaster powered by synthetic fuel flew across the country on Monday … The 5th annual “Living Legends of Aviation“ event will be held at the Beverly Hilton in California on Jan. 24, 2008 … Nepal Airlines must suspend international operations while both of its 757s are down for maintenance … Canada’s […]

The USAF Thunderbirds will perform at Sun n’ Fun in April, EAA announced this week … In its report on an A340 overrun in Toronto in August 2005, Canada’s Transportation Safety Board recommends better crew training and safer overrun areas … The 50th anniversary of NASA and encouragement for more women to join the pilot […]

Nationwide Airlines, a South African budget carrier, is back in the air after being grounded for the alleged use of unapproved parts. One of the airlines old Boeing 737-200s had also recently shed an engine on takeoff … Adam Aircraft announced the first Type Inspection Authorization (TIA) has been granted by the FAA for the […]

Pilots who inadvertently violate TFR restrictions will not be criminally prosecuted, the FAA told AOPA … Hawker Beechcraft’s King Air B200GT has received FAA approval. The GT, powered by new Pratt and Whitney PT6A-52 engines, will cruise 20 knots faster and climb more quickly than the B200, which it replaces … Berlin’s historic Tempelhof Airport […]

NASA is under criticism for allowing an engineering company to keep two jet engines paid for by NASA after the project it was working on was cancelled. DuPont Aerospace retained the $1.5 million worth of engines after the DP-2 project, a VTOL aircraft was cancelled (after more than $63 million was spent on it) … […]