Aviation News

The USAF Thunderbirds will perform at Sun n’ Fun in April, EAA announced this week … In its report on an A340 overrun in Toronto in August 2005, Canada’s Transportation Safety Board recommends better crew training and safer overrun areas … The 50th anniversary of NASA and encouragement for more women to join the pilot […]

Nationwide Airlines, a South African budget carrier, is back in the air after being grounded for the alleged use of unapproved parts. One of the airlines old Boeing 737-200s had also recently shed an engine on takeoff … Adam Aircraft announced the first Type Inspection Authorization (TIA) has been granted by the FAA for the […]

Pilots who inadvertently violate TFR restrictions will not be criminally prosecuted, the FAA told AOPA … Hawker Beechcraft’s King Air B200GT has received FAA approval. The GT, powered by new Pratt and Whitney PT6A-52 engines, will cruise 20 knots faster and climb more quickly than the B200, which it replaces … Berlin’s historic Tempelhof Airport […]

NASA is under criticism for allowing an engineering company to keep two jet engines paid for by NASA after the project it was working on was cancelled. DuPont Aerospace retained the $1.5 million worth of engines after the DP-2 project, a VTOL aircraft was cancelled (after more than $63 million was spent on it) … […]

J. Clarke McNeace of Mesa, Ariz., is the first CFI to be named an Instructor in Aerobatics by the National Association of Flight Instructors … Honda Aero broke ground Wednesday on its new corporate HQ and jet engine plant in Burlington, N.C…. ATG has laid off workers from its Javelin jet program, reports Flight International.

Officials in Indonesia say technicians failed to properly secure a section of wing cap that came loose from a Batavia Air Boeing 737 last week. The 18 by 24 inch chunk of metal hit a house but no one was hurt and the aircraft landed safely … The FAA says it won’t reopen public comment […]

Two pilots were killed and a third seriously hurt when their helium balloon hit powerlines in Iowa last Friday. The basket separated and crashed 60 feet to the ground … Liberty Aerospace announced its first U.S. dealer, First Flight Aviation in Fort Smith, Ark … Feeling thankful today? The Air Care Alliance can help you […]

A Thai Air Force helicopter pilot was suspended for landing his aircraft in the jungle so he could pick wild mushrooms for his mother. Local villagers reported the incident after they found the abandoned aircraft… The family of a pilot missing in B.C.s rugged interior are asking for public help to find him. Ron Boychuk, […]

The new edition of the FAA’s Aviation Weather Services advisory circular is available free online in PDF format … . A 41-year-old woman who was seriously hurt when she stepped into the path of a taxiing Piper Cherokee on Sunday is recovering. She was hit in the head by a wing in Gainesville, Ga. … […]

An experienced helicopter pilot walked into the rotor of his aircraft on Friday and was killed. Harold Gene Jones, 64, left the Bell 407 running while he offloaded baggage at Morristown, Tenn. Airport and was struck in the head while walking back to the aircraft … . The comment period on new rules for aircraft […]