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Cirrus Design’s one airframe may be pressing production and design at Cessna. As Cirrus practically matches deliveries with Cessna, Cessna Aircraft CEO Jack Pelton confirmed last week what his company has been leaking — Cessna is planning to not only produce a new design, but to revamp its line of single-engine aircraft, “to be competitive.” […]

AVmail: October 31, 2005Reader mail this week about TFRs, photo licenses in Australia and much more.

_______COLUMNS The Pilot’s Lounge #93: PilgrimagesSometimes we need to refresh our interest in aviation. Sometimes we need reminders of why we love to fly. Sometimes, as AVweb’s Rick Durden discovers, we can find ways — maybe in flight, maybe not — to recharge our flying soul.

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An influential Oklahoma senator is accusing the FAA of breaking the law in its administration of the Washington Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). As part of his effort to block creation of a permanent ADIZ, Republican Sen. James Inhofe told AOPA that the FAA has ignored a requirement included in its current reauthorization that requires […]

An Arizona doctor faces charges for allegedly loading the body of his non-certificated son in a pickup truck and taking it home after his son crashed at Casa Grande Municipal Airport last Saturday. Dr. Mark Lundell, who with another son witnessed the plane go down, is accused of removing the body of Jacob Lundell, 21, […]

What if they opened up 15 new air routes and didn’t tell the controllers? That’s the scenario facing East Coast controllers as the FAA tries to clear up the congestion going into Florida, according to the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA). In a news release, NATCA claims that controllers in Boston, New York and […]

There’s no law against taking an airplane off from a road (just like there’s no law against running out of fuel and having to land on the road in the first place) but sometimes it’s just not a good idea. Many of the townsfolk of Baker, La., were watching (and at least one had a […]

A Cedar Falls, Iowa, man who local media reports say is an officer of his local EAA chapter has been charged with systematically stripping parts from a disabled Piper Seneca to be used in his own homebuilt project. John M. Norcero was arrested last Tuesday and charged with first-degree theft. The Seneca, owned by Jerry […]