Aviation News

A rare Carvair modified DC-4 crashed in Alaska last week, the crew was unhurt but the airplane broke apart… Plans to expand a runway at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida will go forward, airport commissioners said this week, despite local opposition… Brian Kissinger, a brain-cancer survivor, has launched a cross-country flight in a vintage […]

The FAA is investigating the fourth runway incursion this year at LAX. In Tuesdays incident, an American Airlines plane went past the hold line and stopped abruptly while heading to a runway where a cargo plane was taking off… The owner of a small cropdusting service near Bastrop, La., tried but couldnt save two aircraft […]

AOPA is posting daily updates online about the problems with Flight Service Stations and the efforts being made to rectify them… The Smithsonian Air & Space Museum will host Become A Pilot Day on June 16 at the Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia… A DARPA flight test has shown that a remotely controlled F/A-18 model can […]

A South Hadley, Mass., man was slightly injured after the plane hed just prop started dragged him about 100 feet. Donald Bradley told authorities he was trying to stop it from hitting nearby houses. The plane stopped shortly after shaking the pilot off… Venezuelan authorities found more than 1,100 pounds of cocaine aboard a Cessna […]

India needs pilots, controllers, mechanics, engineers, 1,000 helicopters and 500 new bizjets to fuel its growing aviation sector, top aviation official Praful Patel told Reuters on Wednesday… A pilot in a single-engine airplane was forced to land after flying too close to the Space Shuttle, in restricted airspace, on Tuesday… The U.S. House has OK’d […]

Spectrum Aeronautical LLC has moved its headquarters to McClellan-Palomar Airport in Carlsbad, Calif. The company says the new location is more convenient and exposes their products, a light bizjet called the Independence and a midsize aircraft dubbed Freedom, to the many business operators who use the airport… The FAA is proposing an Airworthiness Directive on […]

A 2001 Cessna 182 Turbo, N35347, white with two blue stripes, was reported stolen from Falcon Field in Arizona in the first week of May. If you have information, please contact the Aviation Crime Prevention Institute, Doug Bland, (805) 496-7181… Transport Canada has certified Columbia 350s and 400s equipped with G1000 glass cockpits… Socata Aircraft, […]

Hangar63, Banyan’s Aviation Store at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, will hold a customer appreciation day June 2 with special sales, prizes, food and free flying using simulator software in a Gulfstream II fuselage… Cirruss G3 series of turbonormalized SR22s is even cooler now that theyre available with air conditioning. Earlier turbos didnt offer that option… […]

Sens. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, and Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, have signed on to co-sponsor a new bill that provides an alternative to the FAA’s proposed reauthorization legislation. The bill has been called better than the FAA version, but still not friendly to GA… The upgraded version of the Commemorative Air Forces B-24 will be unveiled Saturday […]

Wally Schirra, an original Mercury astronaut and the only astronaut to fly in Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, died last week at the age of 84… Top Gun is the greatest aviation movie of all time, according to 10,000 people who voted in an EAA poll on the subject. The 1986 Tom Cruise film earned […]