Aviation News

The FAA agreed this week to pay $3.75 million to the families of three people who died in a 2005 ditching off the Florida coast. The FAA did not admit to any fault in the accident… A new glove designed for pilots features a built-in LED light for night flying… A 17-year-old private pilot made […]

AOPA has asked the FAA to postpone its recent airworthiness directive affecting more than 17,000 Cessna 150s and 152s… The new FAA funding bill mandates twice-yearly inspections of Part 145 certificated repair facilities located abroad, which has the Aircraft Electronics Association concerned… The NTSB has released a preliminary report on the Ecoflyer accident in which […]

An Indonesian C-130 crashed on the island of Java Wednesday morning with 112 people on board, 68 died… A Cessna 172 and Cessna 310 collided in midair above the ocean off Long Beach, Calif., on Monday, three people were killed… Chalkie Stobbart, of South Africa, broke a record set in 1939 for a solo round-trip […]

Ken Godin Ken Godin, the former national sales director for Flight Design, was named North American sales and service manager for Remos.

Austria’s Tyrolean Jet Services (TJS) announced at EBACE that it has joined forces with Lebanese company Clear Sky to offer executive air services in the Middle East. The new company will be called Clearsky Tyrolean Jet Services CTS) and operate out of Beirut. CTS will offer charter and aircraft management services and plans to open […]

ATR launched ATR Corporate at EBACE. According to sales director Milco Rappuoli the company is still working on a name for the new aircraft. The move came about because several airlines are already using the regional turboprop as a convertible from VIP to shuttle or medevac. Last year the OEM sold a VIP variant to […]

EBACE 2009 was a success in any terms, but given the current financial climate, the business aviation industry had much to be cheerful about. The third biggest show in the event’s history saw 10,000 attendees turn up and 65 aircraft fly into the static display. This was good news for a sector hit by job […]

Once again, the European Business Aviation Conference and Expo provides ample opportunities for checking out the bizjets of various folks in the industry – and, as always, we make it a point of taking in the sights. CLICK FOR LARGER INDIVIDUAL IMAGES EACH IMAGE WILL OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW

Air traffic controllers picketed in Memphis this week to protest a plan to split tower controllers and the radar staff… Walter Boyne, former director of the National Air & Space Museum, will give a talk about the future of aviation on May 14 for the Mid-Atlantic Pilots Association in Little Falls, N.J.; all are invited […]

Pilots planning to fly in to EAA AirVenture at Oshkosh this summer can now download the FAA Notam online… The FAA is reviewing the hours flown by Colgan Air flight crews, The Associated Press reported Wednesday; hearings are less than a week away into the fatal February crash of a Colgan Air flight… Airports in […]