Aviation News

A P-51 Mustang allegedly flew low across Washington-Grizzly Stadium before Montana’s football game with Cal Poly on Oct. 22. The FAA is looking for witnesses… Got a bunch of extra dollars to spend? A company is offering hot-air balloon tours of Europe — just $81,000 for 52 days and seven countries… The U.S. Air Force […]

They normally race the clock but organizers of the Marion Jayne Air Race and the Carolinas 300 Air Races had to outrun Hurricane Rita last month. The original routes had to be modified to account for the storm… The NTSB will release its report today on the takeoff crash of a Challenger bizjet at Teterboro […]

Pennsylvania officials say the state will have full ADS-B coverage within four years. It will start with four ground stations covering most of the eastern part of the state… Anheuser-Busch has apologized for a Bud Light commercial poking fun at low-cost airlines it admits was in poor taste. The ad was supposed to be a […]

A Nigerian 737 with 116 people aboard crashed after taking off from Lagos Saturday night in a heavy thunderstorm, no sign of survivors… Chalmers “Slick” Goodlin, former X-1 test pilot, died last week at age 82, in West Palm Beach, Fla…. Due to concerns about avian flu, aviators involved in a bird strike are advised […]

A Columbia 400 impacted a mountain ridge Monday around noon, 50 miles east of its departure airport, San Diego’s Gillespie field. The aircraft was bound for Scottsdale. The event may mark the first fatal crash of a Columbia aircraft. Three people plus one dog aboard the aircraft were killed. The aircraft’s emergency beacon was not […]

A C172L and a Lancair 235 collided Friday over Ohio, killing four. The aircraft made contact at approximately 2:06 p.m. some 20 miles east of Akron-Canton airport, according to a release by the Ohio State Highway Patrol… Southwest Airlines and Alaska Airlines have been turned down in their bids to move to Seattle’s Boeing Field […]

The plan was a pretty simple one: We would fly up to Loar Field (83G) in southern Michigan, where my son would pick us up and we would go golfing for Father’s Day. Candidly, I enjoy the flying part a lot more than the golfing part. The real pleasure, of course, would be spending time […]

Eric and Keith Hayden built a Wright Brothers model A biplane that successfully flew 300 meters at an altitude of roughly ten feet over a runway at Narromine to launch an airshow celebration of aviation and the history of aircraft. Australian AVweb reader, Murray Feddersen, wrote to give us the details and picture. The flight […]

RedBull’s low-level aerobatic air race comes live to San Francisco, Saturday at 12:45 pm (PST) during the Fleetweek Airshow. Those who can’t make it can view the spectacle via an online webcast… NASA is offering an online ground de-icing course aimed primarily at professional pilots who make their own de-icing decisions. It covers general knowledge […]

J. Roy Shoffner, who helped recover and restore the Glacier Girl P-38, has died at age 77, in Kentucky… The FAA is checking into Alaska Air maintenance procedures, after questions were raised about jackscrew lubrication… A fired worker says the superjumbo A380 is unsafe; the builders disagree… The FAA last week gave its final OK […]