Aviation News

Lancair has expanded Down Under. The Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority has granted Type Acceptance Certificates to the Columbia 350 and 400 models… After battling bureaucracy, ground looping in Thailand and using cooking oil for brake fluid Watsonville, Calif., RV-8 pilot Bill Randolph has completed his round-the-world flight ,making him the oldest to do so […]

A three-day public hearing will start June 13 into the crash of a Pinnacle Airlines Regional Jet in Missouri last Oct. 14. The NTSB’s preliminary investigation indicated one or both of the plane’s engines ceased producing thrust while it cruised at its maximum altitude of 41,000 feet while on a repositioning flight… The show must […]

All four people on board died Saturday when a Cessna 172 crashed into a beach at Coney Island, N.Y. Nobody on the ground was hurt… If you want to check out using auto fuel in your airplane, check out Peterson Aviation’s Web site for info on STCs… and also some info about ethanol… Local officials […]

The NTSB blamed the crash landing of a FedEx MD-10 on poor technique by the first officer and inadequate oversight by the captain… Some United flight attendants are protesting pension cuts with the (semi) naked truth in a calendar called “Stewardesses Stripped (Of Their Pension?) “… The National Aeronautic Association has launched a redesigned and […]

One of Britain’s top aviation safety awards went to a glider pilot who landed his aircraft to give first aid to a fellow competitor in a gliding contest who had crashed. Neil Goudie first called for help then landed and gave first aid to the badly injured pilot, who was subsequently picked up by medevac… […]

The Eclipse 500 has taken another step up from that elusive $1 million sticker price. The company announced an across-the-board hike raising the price of the very light jet to $1.295 million in June 2000 dollars. (We don’t know how to do the math either.) When it was introduced in 1999, the price was below […]

All 15 people aboard died Saturday when a Fairchild Metroliner crashed during a rainstorm in a remote area of Australia. It was the country’s worst civilian aviation accident since 1968… Air Midwest and its maintenance provider, Vertex Aerospace, publicly apologized on Friday for mistakes that contributed to the crash of a Beech 1900 in Charlotte, […]

A Fairchild Metroliner SA227-AC apparently caught fire and exploded while flying at 20,000 feet above New Zealand on Tuesday. The airplane was carrying mail; the two pilots on board died… EAA Southwest Regional Fly-In coming May 12-15 at a new location, Hondo Airport, near San Antonio, Texas… New 757s are no more, but companies are […]

A Nigerian-born flight student who fled the U.S. after being refused advanced training by a Georgia instructor has been arrested near London for allegedly obtaining a false passport. Zayad “Christopher” Hajaig was arrested at his home in Essex. Hajaig’s altercation with flight instructor Jim Archer earlier this month sparked a terror alert. Hajaig, whose U.S. […]

The future of a Fort Wayne, Ind., airport seems a little brighter after the local airport authority voted to keep the facility open “indefinitely.” Still, anti-airport forces found encouragement in the descriptions noting that indefinitely doesn’t mean “in perpetuity”… One of the world’s best hang gliding competitors died in a competition in Florida last week. […]