Aviation News

Glacier Girl is on her way to England. The famed P-38 entered Canada (track progress here) on Saturday on the way to completing its 1942 mission to bolster Allied forces in Europe. The airplane and seven others were forced down in Greenland due to weather, and Glacier Girl was recovered and restored in the late […]

Scholarships are offered for aerobatic training via the International Council of Air Shows Foundation. Deadline is July 1. Apply via the foundation’s Web site… Cessna announced an order for 96 Citation jets at Paris this week. NetJets will buy 50 Encore+, 37 XLS+ and nine Citation X twinjets, a sale that totals more than $1 […]

DayJet now has five Eclipse 500s in its fleet and expects this number to swell to seven by the end of the week. It plans to launch per-seat, on-demand service in Florida by the end of next month… Brig. Gen. Robin Olds, considered by many to be one of the best fighter pilots ever to […]

AOPA has launched a new Web site with info to help pilots on the career track… Japan may enter the regional-jet market with a Mitsubishi RJ with 70 to 90 seats. A mock-up will be shown at this summer’s Paris Air Show… The Jet Center of Dallas FBO at Dallas Executive Airport (RBD) has expanded […]

South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer is suing three aircraft maintenance companies that worked on the engine of his Mooney M20E before he said it lost power and caused him to make an off-field landing in May 2006… The Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson has opened a new hangar that is home to […]

A rare Carvair modified DC-4 crashed in Alaska last week, the crew was unhurt but the airplane broke apart… Plans to expand a runway at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida will go forward, airport commissioners said this week, despite local opposition… Brian Kissinger, a brain-cancer survivor, has launched a cross-country flight in a vintage […]

The FAA is investigating the fourth runway incursion this year at LAX. In Tuesdays incident, an American Airlines plane went past the hold line and stopped abruptly while heading to a runway where a cargo plane was taking off… The owner of a small cropdusting service near Bastrop, La., tried but couldnt save two aircraft […]

AOPA is posting daily updates online about the problems with Flight Service Stations and the efforts being made to rectify them… The Smithsonian Air & Space Museum will host Become A Pilot Day on June 16 at the Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia… A DARPA flight test has shown that a remotely controlled F/A-18 model can […]

A South Hadley, Mass., man was slightly injured after the plane hed just prop started dragged him about 100 feet. Donald Bradley told authorities he was trying to stop it from hitting nearby houses. The plane stopped shortly after shaking the pilot off… Venezuelan authorities found more than 1,100 pounds of cocaine aboard a Cessna […]

India needs pilots, controllers, mechanics, engineers, 1,000 helicopters and 500 new bizjets to fuel its growing aviation sector, top aviation official Praful Patel told Reuters on Wednesday… A pilot in a single-engine airplane was forced to land after flying too close to the Space Shuttle, in restricted airspace, on Tuesday… The U.S. House has OK’d […]