Aviation News

Pilot Mike Goulian, who flies airshows and competes in Red Bull air races, is the winner of this year’s Bill Barber Award for Showmanship, which will be awarded at EAA AirVenture… The Air Race Classic has posted the top 10 competitors from this year’s women-only cross-country race, which wrapped up last weekend… Flying to Mexico? […]

Mike Payne Mike Payne has joined Wilson Aircraft of Aurora, Ontario as vice president of aircraft sales. Payne has 30 years of experience in aircraft sales in Canada and was most recently the Canadian rep for Embraer Executive Aircraft.

Millie Becker Millie Becker is the new vice president for business development at First Aviation Services at Teterboro Airport. She was formerly a marketing executive at Landmark Aviation.

PDFPlates.com is working to make FAA approach plates downloadable to your Kindle at no charge. If you’d like to be a beta tester, contact them… An Australian helicopter pilot dragged his passenger to shore and buried him neck-deep in sand to protect him from hypothermia Sunday night after they crashed in remote crocodile-infested mudflats. Rescuers […]

L-3 Avionic Systems has sued Cirrus Design, seeking $18 million because Cirrus canceled its plan to buy avionics for its jet from L-3 and switched to Garmin instead… Owners of certain Bonanzas and Barons affected by a circuit-breaker airworthiness directive with an Aug. 6 deadline now have an extension, but must follow strict procedures, as […]

Steve Aliment Steve Aliment is Bombardier’s new regional vice president of sales for Europe. Aliment previously spent 25 years at Boeing.

The Paris Air Show opens today under the shadow of the crash of Air France 447 and an economic slowdown that is keeping some companies, including Cessna and Gulfstream, from attending. Still, more than 2,000 vendors are there and 300,000 people are expected to attend… The Canadian Forces Snowbirds air demonstration team has been grounded […]

At least one person survived the crash of New Mexico state helicopter in a snowstorm on 12,000-foot Sante Fe Baldy Mountain. The fate of the other two onboard was not known at our deadline… President Barack Obama has nominated NTSB member Deborah Hersman to fill the role of NTSB chairman… Peter Besenyei, inventor of the […]

Pilot Journey Airplane Sales has added two staff members. Dan Luketic will be Director of Airplane Sales and Marketing, and Doris Fowler will be the Assistant to the Director.

Don Campion Don Campion, president of Banyan Air Services, was inducted into the Florida Aviation Trades Association (FATA) Entrepreneurial Excellence Hall of Fame. Banyan opened 30 years ago at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport.