Aviation News

The captain of a Continental Airlines flight suffered a “serious medical condition” and later died Saturday after the aircraft, with 210 people on board, took off from Houston bound for Puerto Vallarta. The first officer diverted to McAllen-Miller International Airport, where a fresh crew took the holidayers the rest of the way… In case you […]

A memorial fly-in for William Kershner, the flight instructor and aviation manual author who recently died, will be held at Winchester (Tenn.) Airport on February 17… EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2007 in July will feature the U.S. Air Force’s new exhibit, “Heritage to Horizons,” celebrating the 60th anniversary of the USAF… A new $89 million control […]

Physicist Stephen Hawking will get a firsthand opportunity to observe weightlessness. The renowned scholar and author has been offered a free seat on one of Virgin Galactics suborbital space flights in 2009… Snakes On A Plane might be just a movie, but scorpions are the real deal. At least two incidences of scorpion bites were […]

Evektor America‘s SportStar Flight Center program has added six more flight schools, expanding its network to 12 sites, with many more in the works, the company said this week… Extra airspace restrictions will take effect over Washington, D.C., on Jan. 23 for the State of the Union address… Mechanics and ground-support workers at NetJets won […]

Liberty Air Ventures is hoping to open a new FBO at Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport by midsummer. The company is headed by Mary Pilgrim and an all-female board of directors and will compete with the Signature facility already on the field… King Schools has launched a new interactive computer-based video course on the Garmin GNS […]

A 737 that went missing in Indonesia on Monday is still unaccounted for, despite earlier reports that the wreckage was found. About 100 people were on board Adam Air Flight 574, which may have gone down in the Java Sea… Cessna recently received FAA type certification for the Encore+, the latest version of its Encore […]

The pilot of a Bonanza on approach to Chattanooga Airport reported being disoriented just before the plane crashed in a wooded area north of the city Dec. 22. The crash killed pilot Nelson MacPherson Jr., his wife Debbie and their daughters Danielle and Kayla… Atlantic Aviation will become the FBO at the airport touted as […]

A 747-400 with British Prime Minister Tony Blair on board hit some runway lights while landing at Miami International on Tuesday evening. The NTSB is investigating… Fuel tanks on some Embraer Legacy bizjets could explode if certain harnesses for the tanks create sparks that encounter flammable gasses, says the FAA in a proposed airworthiness directive… […]

More than 70 competitors took part in Chinas first national-level indoor model airplane competition. The sport, which is very popular in Europe, is growing rapidly in China… A Michigan company has won the contract to fly caskets and remains of U.S. troops killed in action from Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to funeral locations. […]

A B-29 Superfortress that has been under renovation at Boeing in Wichita since 2000 will be moved to the Kansas Aviation Museum next month, the Wichita Eagle reported Monday. Work on the airplane will continue in an effort to restore it to flying condition… NASA said on Monday it will provide 3-D imagery of the […]