Aviation News

A Texas-based charity is harnessing the power of GA to deliver aid to communities in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina cut off by damage from Tropical Storm Helene. Operation Airdrop has established a base at Concord Regional Airport and is inviting owner-pilots to volunteer to operate supply flights to the storm-ravaged area. Pilots without […]

The NTSB says the rudders on “more than” 353 Boeing 737NG and MAX aircraft can freeze stuck and it’s suggested the manufacturer come up with a solution besides stomping on the pedals to free them up. The board issued an urgent safety recommendation Thursday resulting from its investigation of an incident in Newark last February […]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced it has reached a new contract agreement with The Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS)—a union representing approximately 11,000 FAA employees dedicated to flight safety and aircraft certification. “The PASS workforce is an essential part of the FAA’s effort to keeping the flying public safe and holding airplane manufacturers to […]

Tyndall Air Force Base has temporarily relocated its F-35 fleet in preparation for Hurricane Helene, which could turn into a Category 4 storm as it makes landfall on Thursday evening. The National Hurricane Center warned Helene would likely bring heavy rainfall and “devastating hurricane-force winds” inland to north Florida and Georgia on Friday. A spokesperson told […]

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk called for the resignation of FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker, following testimony the FAA chief gave earlier this week, as tensions between the company and FAA heat up. During a hearing before the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Tuesday, Whitaker addressed the more than $630,000 in fines the […]

Pilots can now obtain their single-engine seaplane (SES) rating at Lake DeSmet in Wyoming, thanks to the efforts of advocates J.T. Grainger, Wyoming field director of the Seaplane Pilots Association, and Steve Guetter, president of the Minnesota Seaplane Pilots Association. As reported by Wipaire, a Minnesota-based manufacturer of aircraft floats, the pair met with county […]

CNN reported yesterday (Sept. 24) that the FAA was investigating an incident involving passenger injuries resulting from a midair collision warning. UAL Flight 2428 from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco International Airport responded to a traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) resolution advisory (RA) and “slowed its descent to account for another aircraft at a […]

Earlier this week, the FAA announced it has exceeded its hiring goal for air traffic controllers for fiscal year 2024 (ending Sept. 30). A total of 1,811 new hires have signed on, eleven more than the target figure of 1,800. The agency said in a statement that the figure was the highest in nearly 10 […]

A coalition of 13 aviation trade organizations has written a letter to Republican and Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives asking that lawmakers remove caps on veterans’ aviation education benefits from current proposed legislation. According to the letter, House Bill H.R. 7323 includes a lifetime cap on post-9/11 GI Bill flight benefits of $115,749 […]

Textron Aviation has announced that the company, along with subsidiary TRU simulation, “will not participate as exhibitors at the 2024 [NBAA-BACE].” The sudden withdrawal, with less than a month to go before the annual show, this year being held in Las Vegas, comes after Gulfstream and Dassault also decided against participation. Gulfstream has said it […]