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Day ONE |Day TWO CLICK FOR LARGE IMAGESEACH IMAGE WILL OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW Bonanza and company Columbia panel mock-up DA40XL open for offers D-Jet visitors Lots of electronics on display FAA Administrator Marion Blakey, Cirrus CEO Alan Klapmeier and AOPA President Phil Boyer Foxjet makes a comeback GAMI under the hood Jet-ready The […]

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Popular Science lists the HondaJet and Diamond D-Jet as best new innovations in aviation… FedEx canceled its order for 10 Airbus A380 double-deckers to go with Boeing’s 777 instead… Skydivers have agreed to continue jumping at Florida’s Deland airport despite construction of a new control tower… Precise Flight has received STC approval for its fixed […]

Raytheons new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been certified by the FAA, and that means it can be used in the restricted airspace over the border between Arizona and Mexico. Raytheon says the Cobra is more technologically advanced than other UAVs and is only nine feet long… Alan Conklin, who co-founded Conklin & de Decker, […]

The pilot of a single-engine Piper landed on a Tulsa racetrack instead of the nearby airport on Saturday afternoon…A Continental 757 mistakenly landed on a taxiway at Newark on Saturday night… An Alaska Airlines 737 took off from the wrong runway at Seattle-Tacoma on Monday…Tuesday night, two airliners clipped wings while taxiing at Newark… Mooney […]

About 100 people, including Sultan Ibrahim Muhammadu Maccido, the head of all Nigerian Muslims died when an ADC Airlines aircraft (type unknown) crashed shortly after takeoff from Nigeria’s capital of Abuja on Sunday… Seattle-area officials are pondering a deal to trade Boeing Field for a railway right of way that would open up 47 miles […]

November 9-11, 2006 Palm Springs Convention Center Palm Springs, California Booth #1620 Adam Aircraft Booth #2204 AeroShell Booth #1127 Aircraft Shopper Online (ASO) Booth #1220 Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co. Booths#1008-1017 Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association (AOPA) Booth #909 Aviation Supplies & Academics (ASA) Booth #811 Avemco Insurance Booth #2028 Aviation Technology Group (ATG) Booth […]

Searchers have found the cockpit voice recorder from the B737 that crashed in Brazil last month after a midair with a Legacy jet. The two American pilots are still not allowed to leave the country, pending further investigation… PartsBase, an online e-commerce Web site for aviation, aerospace and defense, said Tuesday it will run live […]

Garmin is adding Jeppesen charts, National Aeronautical Charting Office departure, arrival and approach plates, and taxi directions for 700 airports to its G1000 glass cockpit. The databases, called FliteCharts, ChartView and SafeTaxi, will make their debut in the Cessna Citation Mustang… CH2000s in harm’s way? The first two of eight SAMA CH2000 aircraft based on […]

James Fallows, reporter for The Atlantic and a Cirrus pilot, offers comment and analysis into the recent fatal crash in New York. Also, The New York Times provides a detailed graphic of the flight path… The continuing investigation into last month’s midair over Brazil is raising questions about air traffic control procedures… A small Fort […]