Aviation News

Columbia Aircraft is taking its airplanes on the road, with 30 stops scheduled for this year’s tour… Need charts? Here’s RunwayFinder, another Web site with sectionals online, mashed up with runway info, weather reports and Google maps… A pilot who buzzed beaches at Santa Cruz, Calif., last May was sentenced last week to 240 hours […]

A Connecticut man pleaded guilty Monday in a New York court to stealing an airplane last June and flying it while drunk. He will spend less than a year in jail… Ballistic Recovery Systems has received a Supplemental Type Certificate from the FAA for a ballistic recovery system for the Symphony SA 160… GlobalFlyer is […]

In another personnel change of import to business aviation, the FAA this month named David Bowen as the agency’s new Chief Information Officer and Assistant Administrator for Information Services. Bowen replaces Dan Mehan, who left the FAA at the end of September 2005, and interim CIO Walter Iwanow. Bowen comes to the FAA from Blue […]

Edward Allen probably can’t even read the list but he’s on it. The four-year-old boy was initially stopped from boarding a flight in Houston after his name came up on the anti-terrorism no-fly list. Common sense prevailed…. The Diamond Twin Star has been given a gross weight increase of 187 lbs. by the European Aviation […]

The first DC-3 to fly passengers for Delta has been restored and will be based at the Delta Heritage Museum, near Atlanta. The plane was rescued from a Puerto Rico cargo operation and rebuilt over five years… Independence Air, the upstart Dulles-based budget carrier, will fly for the last time tonight. The airline, started in […]

Two people died when their Cirrus SR22 crashed on a North Carolina mountainside last Thursday afternoon. Tommy Marshall, 55, and his wife, Veronica, 50, of Pensacola, Fla., were killed in the crash. Early reports did not suggest the aircraft’s full plane parachute had been deployed… Luke Air Force Base in Arizona wants all GA pilots […]

An Alaska Airlines MD-80 landed safely Monday afternoon at Seattle-Tacoma Airport after a foot-long gash opened up in the fuselage at 26,000 feet. A ramp vehicle had dented the airplane just before takeoff… New Jersey has seen 44 aviation accidents so far this year, double the number in 2004. Thirteen people died, the Star-Ledger reported […]

AOPA is running five different television ads on the Weather Channel over the holidays outlining the importance of GA and reiterating that it is not a security threat. The ads run through Dec. 31… Aviation Technology Group, Inc. (ATG), which is building the Javelin personal jet, announced the addition of Brig. Gen (Res) Uzzi Rozzen, […]

Thielert says demand is strong for its 1.7 liter diesel aircraft engines and it’s continuing to expand its market. In addition to OEM sales to Diamond Aircraft, the Jet-A sipping mills are also being retrofitted into Cessnas and Pipers… A lawsuit has been filed against Boeing and Onex Corp. claiming age discrimination in the determination […]

Nine single-engine aircraft were destroyed in a hangar fire at Arlington (Texas) Municipal Airport Monday night, and 11 others were damaged. One of the airplanes in the hangar was a 1934 Fairchild… The U.S. House passed a bill last week that would carry a $250,000 fine and a possible five-year prison term for anyone who […]