Aviation News

A retired Air Force pilot is the FAA’s new top doctor. Dr. Frederick Tilton is replacing Dr. Jon Jordan as Federal Air Surgeon after serving six years as Jordan’s deputy. Tilton logged 4,000 hours in the Air Force, starting with the B-47 and ending with the F-15 before retiring as a colonel in 1988… The […]

A fleet of L-39 warbirds was confiscated in Alaska by the FBI… A local newspaper supports GA pilots opposing permanent airspace restrictions over Washington, D.C…. Boeing on Monday delivered its 5,000th 737, to Southwest Airlines… An IPO at Eclipse Aviation? Not this year, company spokesman Andrew Broom told AVweb… Jeppesen has released a NavData Alert […]

FEMA has stored over 10,000 house trailers, which have not yet been used to aid Katrina victims, at the Hope, Ark., airport. Here’s what that looks like from the window of a 1947 Luscombe flown by AVweb reader Doug McDowall… Cessna and FAA to begin talks on Wednesday over a proposed $840,000 fine… An airplane […]

Two small aircraft collided yesterday over El Cajon, CA, shortly before 5 p.m. local time. Three souls, all aboard the aircraft, were lost. Multiple eye witnesses compared what they saw to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster — a star shaped explosion in the sky with flaming debris raining down. The wreckage fell into a largely […]

If you aren’t among the more than 20,000 people who have opposed making the Washington ADIZ permanent, today is your last chance. The comment period ends at midnight. AOPA’s ADIZ Alert can walk you through it… Police in Vernon, British Columbia, have a suspected drug trafficker in custody and are on the trail of plane […]

Rendered paraplegic 17 years ago, 34-year-old Carlana Stone Monday became “the first female paraplegic in the United States” to solo a single-engine aircraft, according to NBC news. The flight was conducted from Whiteman Airport in Pacoima, Calif…. As expected, Transport Canada has relented and will create a U.S.-style temporary flight restriction on its side of […]

The GlobalFlyer could launch on Wednesday, weather permitting. Steve Fossett plans to take off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida and fly farther than any other aircraft in history… New York’s busy LaGuardia Airport will get a new control tower, to be completed by 2009 at a cost of $40 million. The new facility will […]

All four on board died when a Cessna 560 Citation overshot the runway at McClellan-Palomar Airport in southern California Tuesday, before 7 a.m. The jet crashed through scaffolding, slammed into a building about 150 yards beyond the runway and burst into flame. The flight originated in Hailey, Idaho… A Cape Air pilot is off the […]

Both occupants of a Cirrus SR22 walked away from what became a fiery crash at Lincoln Park Airport in New Jersey, Sunday afternoon. The aircraft was landing when it started to the left of the runway, the pilot applied throttle, and the aircraft veered further left, according to a policeman interviewed by the Associated Press. […]

They’ve stood the test of time but a Cessna 120 is no match for a speeding pickup truck. Juneau police have charged a 27-year-old man with driving while under the influence of alcohol after a truck went through the airport fence and totaled the 60-year-old airplane and a set of floats beside it… Two Indian […]