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The National Aeronautic Association (NAA) has announced that it will award the 2023 Clifford Henderson Trophy to Sisters of the Skies. The organization was selected for “their commitment to increase awareness of the opportunities in aviation and increase the number of Black female pilots who are introduced, celebrated, and supported through their scholarship, mentorship, professional […]

The FAA has published a Safety Alert for Operators (SAFO) aimed at preventing injuries to ground personnel towing and guiding airliners. The agency recommended that operators ensure their towing and marshalling procedures require that chocks are installed whenever aircraft towing stops, all personnel to remain clear of an aircraft in tow until it has come […]

One of the biggest obstacles encountered by aspiring pilots is the money to pay for the training. Joshua Roycroft from Johnston County, North Carolina, is receiving some help with that as the winner of the Fly Right Scholarship from Blue Line Aviation. “The Fly Right Scholarship promises a sum of $100,000 to a high school graduate […]

The FAA says it’s revoked the pilot certificates of 60 pilots as part of a project by the Department of Veterans Affairs to cross-reference its list of those receiving benefits with the medical records of active pilots. According to a Washington Post report, there are a total of 4,800 pilots, including 600 ATPs, who were […]

Three U.S. Marines were killed and five were hospitalized in the crash of an MV-22B Osprey during a training exercise in Australia on Sunday. There were 23 Marines aboard the tiltrotor transport when the accident occurred. It happened about 9:30 a.m. local time on Melville Island, near Darwin in the country’s Northern Territory. Circumstances of […]

The FAA says it intends to close a regulatory loophole that allows non-ATP commercial pilots as crew on passenger flights that are “essentially indistinguishable” from regular airline flights. The rule, 14 CFR Part 380, allows Part 135 charter operations to conduct flights that take advance bookings and fly scheduled routes as long as the aircraft […]

It would appear no one was more surprised than the pilot when he and a back-seat “observer” ejected from the MiG-23 they were flying at a Michigan airshow Aug. 13. In the preliminary report on the incident, the NTSB says pilot and aircraft owner Dan Filer did not order the ejection but the back-seater might […]

The Marine Corps has confirmed an F/A-18D fighter crashed at its Miramar Air Station near San Diego late Thursday, killing the pilot. The aircraft went down on federal property east of the developed portion of the base. Rescuers recovered the body of the pilot, who has not been identified, Friday morning The crash happened just […]

Embraer’s E195-E2 single-aisle passenger jet has been granted its type certificate by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). The model received its type certificates from the FAA, EASA and Brazil’s ANAC in April 2019, entering service with Brazilian airline Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras later that year. The first of Embraer’s E2 models, the E190-E2, […]

Women in Aviation International (WAI) is set to host its 9th Annual Girls in Aviation Day (GIAD) on Sept. 23. Designed to introduce girls ages 8 to 18 to aviation and aerospace, GIAD events are put on by WAI chapters and corporate members worldwide. The organization estimates that more than 150 individual events will take […]