Aviation News

Two small aircraft collided yesterday over El Cajon, CA, shortly before 5 p.m. local time. Three souls, all aboard the aircraft, were lost. Multiple eye witnesses compared what they saw to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster — a star shaped explosion in the sky with flaming debris raining down. The wreckage fell into a largely […]

If you aren’t among the more than 20,000 people who have opposed making the Washington ADIZ permanent, today is your last chance. The comment period ends at midnight. AOPA’s ADIZ Alert can walk you through it… Police in Vernon, British Columbia, have a suspected drug trafficker in custody and are on the trail of plane […]

Rendered paraplegic 17 years ago, 34-year-old Carlana Stone Monday became “the first female paraplegic in the United States” to solo a single-engine aircraft, according to NBC news. The flight was conducted from Whiteman Airport in Pacoima, Calif…. As expected, Transport Canada has relented and will create a U.S.-style temporary flight restriction on its side of […]

The GlobalFlyer could launch on Wednesday, weather permitting. Steve Fossett plans to take off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida and fly farther than any other aircraft in history… New York’s busy LaGuardia Airport will get a new control tower, to be completed by 2009 at a cost of $40 million. The new facility will […]

All four on board died when a Cessna 560 Citation overshot the runway at McClellan-Palomar Airport in southern California Tuesday, before 7 a.m. The jet crashed through scaffolding, slammed into a building about 150 yards beyond the runway and burst into flame. The flight originated in Hailey, Idaho… A Cape Air pilot is off the […]

Both occupants of a Cirrus SR22 walked away from what became a fiery crash at Lincoln Park Airport in New Jersey, Sunday afternoon. The aircraft was landing when it started to the left of the runway, the pilot applied throttle, and the aircraft veered further left, according to a policeman interviewed by the Associated Press. […]

They’ve stood the test of time but a Cessna 120 is no match for a speeding pickup truck. Juneau police have charged a 27-year-old man with driving while under the influence of alcohol after a truck went through the airport fence and totaled the 60-year-old airplane and a set of floats beside it… Two Indian […]

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 […]