Aviation News

Cessna recently named a new vice president of administration, Michael (Mick) Hoveskeland, who will handle all Citation, Caravan and single-engine customer contracts; Caravan and single-engine aircraft deliveries; and flight-crew and maintenance training for customers and Cessna team members… Archived papers about the Tuskegee Airmen are now available for research at the Smithsonian’s National Air and […]

The air show that kicks off the Blue Angels’ season each year has been cancelled this year for security reasons. Officials at Naval Air Facility El Centro said the decision to cancel the March 15 spectacle wasn’t taken lightly. There was no specific threat against the base or the show; the cancellation was due to […]

A major snowstorm on Monday closed airports and affected aircraft operations from the Ohio Valley to the mid-Atlantic region. Several major airports were affected, with New York’s JFK International reporting 25 inches of snow and hundreds of flight cancellations. Ronald Reagan Washington National was also closed on Monday and nearby Dulles operated with a single […]

Kids aged 12 to 18 are welcome to EAA’s Air Academy this summer. EAA is sponsoring a full schedule of aviation courses from June 21 to Sept. 1 at its new Oshkosh Air Academy Lodge. Three programs are designed specifically for 12- to 13-year-olds and there are programs for those 14 to 15 and 16 […]

Total industry billings fell from an all-time high of $13.9 billion to $11.9 billion in 2002, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association announced yesterday. Shipments in the U.S. were down from 2001 by 13.6 percent for singles, 11.6 percent for twins and a whopping 38.9 percent for turboprops. Read the full text of the news release, […]

Helicopter orders are expected to increase by about 100, or 4 percent, over the next four years, according to the Dallas Morning News… Stanford University, in Palo Alto, Calif., seeks 100 experienced pilots to help study the effect of aging on flying skills. Pilots must be age 45 to 65, with 300 to 15,000 flight […]

The National Association Of Flight Instructors (NAFI) announced the latest group of CFIs to attain Master Instructor status. The new inductees are: Andrew Chitiea, George Finlay, Arthur Hayssen, William Mainord, Michael Paulson and Obie Young. The Master Instructor designation is a national accreditation recognized by the FAA that is earned by a candidate through a […]

Goodrich Corp. will sell its avionics business to L-3 Communications Holdings for $188 million. The sale will close within a couple of months. Goodrich makes aircraft instruments, while L-3 makes intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance products for military and intelligence agencies… Jane Garvey, former FAA head, is no longer an unemployment statistic. Garvey has joined APCO […]

The FAA on Monday asked operators of commuter aircraft to collect data on the actual weight of pax and bags, to test whether the averages in use are accurate, and also issued an emergency AD mandating inspections of Beech 1900 elevator control systems. The actions were prompted by the fatal Jan. 8 crash of a […]

Don’t, repeat, don’t fly anywhere within 30 nm of the Capitol between 2000 and 2300 on Tuesday night. That’s when President Bush will be delivering the State of the Union Address and the Secret Service is determined that he not be interrupted. The NOTAM covering the TFR bans all GA traffic and closes the DC-3 […]