Aviation News

J. Roy Shoffner, who helped recover and restore the Glacier Girl P-38, has died at age 77, in Kentucky… The FAA is checking into Alaska Air maintenance procedures, after questions were raised about jackscrew lubrication… A fired worker says the superjumbo A380 is unsafe; the builders disagree… The FAA last week gave its final OK […]

It’s apparently within FAA regulations to drive a Jeep under an airplane while a passenger tries to yank the aircraft’s stuck landing gear into place. “This is not something you see every day but there were no violations of regulations,” FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen told the Daytona Beach News. The incident occurred Sept. 16 at […]

The EAA Sport Pilot Tour will stop at Collin County Regional Airport in McKinney, Texas, about 25 miles north of Dallas, on Nov. 12. AVweb‘s story last Thursday had less precise information about the location… Construction is complete for Dulles Airport’s new tower; 25 stories tall, it will open next year… A 1,000-foot-long model of […]

A JetBlue Airbus A320 circled near LAX for about three hours burning fuel before landing with a nose-gear that had wheels turned perpendicular to the aircraft’s body. Of 146 aboard none suffered serious injury as a result of the uneventful (if spark-filled and tire-burning) landing, and millions got to see it on CNN, Fox News, […]

An unmanned aerial vehicle flew into Hurricane Ophelia last week and flew out with data from the dangerous near-surface high wind zone of the storm. Manned aircraft steer clear of that hazardous environment but the Aerosonde UAV, flying for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, completed the 10-hour mission unscathed. The goal of such flights […]

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association says staffing shortages are behind the increase in errors at the country’s busiest terminal radar approach control (TRACON). NATCA says there have been 18 reportable errors in the past year compared to seven in the previous year at the Southern California TRACON. In that time, the union says staffing […]

NATCA says the FAA is deliberately slowing the pace of contract negotiations, being “disruptive and counterproductive…” The FAA is testing new wind shear-detection technology at Las Vegas airport… Federal prosecutors have sued American Airlines for $1 million, alleging the airline failed to investigate a fuel leak detected by an FAA inspector on a flight in […]

“The Flight That Fought Back” — a documentary about Flight 93 — premieres on Sunday, Sept. 11, on the Discovery Channel, 9 p.m. ET/PT… Dave Copeland, vice president of Mooney, set a world record in a flight from Wichita to Oshkosh … flying in a Beechcraft… National Museum of Commercial Aviation in the works, to […]

The National Business Aviation Association has moved its annual convention to Orlando. The meeting was to have taken place in New Orleans. The convention will be held at the Orange County Convention Center Nov. 9 to Nov. 11, a week earlier than originally planned, with aircraft displays at Orlando Executive Airport… Seawind has chosen the […]

The future of the Millville, N.J. Flight Services Station remains uncertain after part of the roof collapsed on the building housing it last week. FAA spokesman Jim Peters said they’re looking at setting up in temporary quarters if the building can’t be quickly repaired. Briefings are now being handled by other offices. The building is […]