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North Las Vegas Airport (KVGT) management has advised pilots and tenants to take precautions after several aircraft on the field were burglarized and one was stolen on Dec. 30. Police said the suspect, Damian Zukaitis, 40, who apparently held a student pilot certificate dated June 29, 2018, allegedly stole a 2020 Kitfox from the airport […]

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) has announced its executive committee lineup for 2024. Leading the team as chair will be Chuck Wiplinger, president and CEO of float manufacturer Wipaire. Wiplinger previously served as the GAMA vice chair and also chaired the Policy and Legal Issues and Technical Policy Committees. He replaces Eric Hinson, president […]

Last month, a supermarket news report detailed a recent partnership between Walmart and Google-owned drone delivery firm Wing centered on the Dallas area, adding drone delivery capability to some 60,000 households. A Wing Supercenter in Frisco, Texas, could be followed up early this year with a second Supercenter in the region. Wing’s CFO Shannon Nash […]

FBO network Signature Flight Support, with more than 200 locations in 27 countries worldwide, announced this week it has completed its acquisition of Meridian’s two facilities at Teterboro Airport (KTEB) nearby New York City in New Jersey and Hayward Airport (KHWD) in California. Originally established at Teterboro by World War II Army pilot J. Kenneth […]

Milan, Illinois-based Elliott Aviation announced this week it has delivered the first Beechcraft King Air B200 to be retrofitted with Garmin’s Autoland system. The King Air is equipped with Garmin’s G1000 NXi avionics suite, which interfaces with the award-winning Autoland technology. In the event of pilot incapacitation, pushing a large button on the panel will […]

Numerous authorities are investigating after a Utah man died after crawling half naked into the nacelle of a Delta Air Lines A220 at Salt Lake City Airport. Police told CBS the engine was “rotating” but “the specific stage of engine operation remains under investigation.” Kyler Efinger, 30, of Park City, busted out of the airport […]

It seems there are still new ways for airliners to be delayed as Qatar Airways passengers headed to Doha, Qatar, from Birmingham, England, found on Tuesday. The flight was delayed more than four hours as firefighters worked to free the pilot and several cabin crew from a stuck elevator. The delay caused numerous passengers to […]

Three former Afghan air force pilots were killed in a pre-Christmas crash of a Cessna 172 in fog in Independence, Oregon. The pilot-in-command in the Dec. 16 accident was 35-year-old Mohammad Hussain Musawi and passengers were Mohammad Bashir Safdari, also 35, and 29-year-old Ali Jan Ferdawsi. All three fought with the American military in the […]

Tennessee congressmen Steve Cohen and Tim Burchett are calling on the FAA to require cockpit data and voice recorders be made to jettison from aircraft on impact with water and to float to the surface, in comments on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would require recorders to retain the previous 25 hours of data […]

Five Japanese Coast Guard personnel are dead and the command pilot seriously injured after their de Havilland Canada DHC-8 Dash 8 was struck by a Japan Airlines Airbus A350-900 on the runway at Tokyo Haneda International Airport. Though the landing Airbus caught fire and was gutted by the flames, all 379 on board escaped with […]