Aviation News

Evektor America‘s SportStar Flight Center program has added six more flight schools, expanding its network to 12 sites, with many more in the works, the company said this week… Extra airspace restrictions will take effect over Washington, D.C., on Jan. 23 for the State of the Union address… Mechanics and ground-support workers at NetJets won […]

Liberty Air Ventures is hoping to open a new FBO at Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport by midsummer. The company is headed by Mary Pilgrim and an all-female board of directors and will compete with the Signature facility already on the field… King Schools has launched a new interactive computer-based video course on the Garmin GNS […]

A 737 that went missing in Indonesia on Monday is still unaccounted for, despite earlier reports that the wreckage was found. About 100 people were on board Adam Air Flight 574, which may have gone down in the Java Sea… Cessna recently received FAA type certification for the Encore+, the latest version of its Encore […]

The pilot of a Bonanza on approach to Chattanooga Airport reported being disoriented just before the plane crashed in a wooded area north of the city Dec. 22. The crash killed pilot Nelson MacPherson Jr., his wife Debbie and their daughters Danielle and Kayla… Atlantic Aviation will become the FBO at the airport touted as […]

A 747-400 with British Prime Minister Tony Blair on board hit some runway lights while landing at Miami International on Tuesday evening. The NTSB is investigating… Fuel tanks on some Embraer Legacy bizjets could explode if certain harnesses for the tanks create sparks that encounter flammable gasses, says the FAA in a proposed airworthiness directive… […]

More than 70 competitors took part in Chinas first national-level indoor model airplane competition. The sport, which is very popular in Europe, is growing rapidly in China… A Michigan company has won the contract to fly caskets and remains of U.S. troops killed in action from Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to funeral locations. […]

A B-29 Superfortress that has been under renovation at Boeing in Wichita since 2000 will be moved to the Kansas Aviation Museum next month, the Wichita Eagle reported Monday. Work on the airplane will continue in an effort to restore it to flying condition… NASA said on Monday it will provide 3-D imagery of the […]

A sting operation mounted by the Office of Inspector General and Department of Transportation has led to the conviction of a San Francisco man for falsifying his student helicopter pilot medical records. Michael Shelby Ascarte was sentenced to 10 hours of community service and six months probation for withholding the fact that he was on […]

Liberty’s XL2 single-engine two-seater has received its Australian certification… Any reciprocating engine crankcases serviced by Crankcase Services of Tulsa, Okla., should be checked, says the FAA’s Suspected Unapproved Parts Program Office… Two European airlines have told their crews to follow special defensive procedures while in Brazilian airspace, Reuters reported this week… Need a stocking stuffer […]

The Thunderbirds will perform at the Gathering of Mustangs and Legends Sept. 27 to Sept. 30 in Columbus. More than two-thirds of the world’s 150 flyable P-51s are expected at the event, which will also honor 51 legendary figures involved with the storied fighter… The closure of a short runway has prompted expansion at Allegheny […]