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Among the many challenges of owning an airplane — financing, taxes, maintenance, etc. — finding a place to keep it can be one of the toughest. A tiedown is adequate for some, but for security and protection from the elements, most pilots really want hangar space. There are not enough hangars to go around, and […]

Despite a last-ditch effort to change the minds of Australia’s government regulators, GOANA Australian Air Safaris is gone — shut down as of Dec. 31, after 12 years of providing fly-yourself adventures to pilots from around the world. Mal Shipton, who owned the company, blamed the indifference of bureaucrats who imposed a complex set of […]

On Monday, a flight instructor and his student died when the Cirrus SR20 they were flying crashed while they were practicing touch and goes at Gen. William J. Fox Airfield in Lancaster, Calif. The airplane’s ballistic chute was found deployed at the wreckage site, but witnesses quoted in early reports disagreed as to whether it […]

When Linden Blue, founder and CEO of Spectrum Aeronautical, announced at November’s NBAA conference that he had a new light bizjet in the works, it was pretty much a surprise. Now, just about two months later, the company has successfully flown the aircraft. The Spectrum 33 twinjet made its first flight on Saturday, Jan. 7, […]

The NTSB on Tuesday updated its report on a Cessna Cargomaster that crashed in an Alabama swamp on an October night in 2002, killing the sole occupant, an ATP-rated pilot with more than 4,500 hours total time and 838 time-in-type. Shortly before the accident, the pilot was advised of traffic — a DC-10 at one […]

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AVmail: January 6, 2006 Reader mail this week about the TSA chasing airplane “hunters,” IFR vs. VFR, airline pilot woes and more.

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Described by colleagues as “one of the top three or four performers” in the business, air show pilot Eric Beard, 48, died Friday when the Piper Seneca he was flying crashed in fog about 400 yards short of the runway at Skagit Regional Airport near Burlington, Wash. Beard was perhaps better-known for flying a rare […]