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Even James Bond would have a hard time sorting this out. According to an Associated Press report (reprinted by numerous military publications), the U.S. Navy operated a small air force of private aircraft for use in clandestine operations. Among the 33 aircraft it contracted from 10 private companies were two Gulfstream bizjets widely reported to […]

AVmail: September 26, 2005Reader mail this week about fuel prices, pay for retired airline pilots, entering the DC ADIZ in Arizona and much more.

ATIS Pro-Airport ActivismThe best time to support a threatened airport is before it gets threatened. That means those of you who think, ”My airport is just fine,” had better read what this city councilman has to say and then start organizing. _______COLUMNS CEO of the Cockpit #49: Coonass Says GoodbyeThese days even retired airline pilots […]

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The National Aeronautic Association (NAA) will host a ceremony tonight in the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington to bestow this year’s Public Benefit Awards, which recognize the contributions of those engaged in flying to help others. Bill Boulton, who has flown more than 150 flights for Angel Flight in Oklahoma, will receive the Distinguished Volunteer […]

The pilots of a chartered Lockheed L-1011 were headed for Lima, Peru, last Tuesday when they told air traffic control they were low on fuel and would have to divert to the northern coastal city of Piura. Emergency crews were scrambled, and the jet landed safely … just in time for the 300 Gambians on […]

Over 50 people held a candlelight vigil in a parking lot across from Teterboro Airport on Thursday night to protest the noise and publicize their concerns about health hazards from airport operations. Most were local residents and officials from the neighborhoods that surround the busy airport. “What they turned this airport into doesn’t belong in […]

Pilot Harry Butler wondered why more than a dozen law-enforcement officers surrounded his Cessna Citation 501 after he landed at Georgetown County Airport in South Carolina on Thursday morning. He’d lost his radios en route and returned to have them checked out, but that hardly seemed to explain it. It turned out that when he […]

The NTSB last week cited the FAA’s “inadequate medical certification … and follow-up” as a factor in an Alaska crash that killed a pilot. The pilot was flying alone carrying cargo in a twin turboprop Beech C-45H en route to Kodiak in June 2004. After holding for 45 minutes waiting for weather to improve, he […]