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“This doesn’t happen that often,” AOPA President Phil Boyer said Tuesday morning at the ribbon-cutting ceremony to reopen a refurbished Runway 13/31 at Venice (Fla.) Municipal Airport. According to FAA Regional Administrator Doug Murphy, the FAA picked up all but $200,000 of the $4 million tab to repair the 5,000-foot runway. “The runway refurb was […]

The two U.S. pilots who have been held in Rio de Janeiro since a fatal midair collision in September will be allowed to go home, a Brazilian court said on Tuesday. The pilots — Joseph Lepore and Jan Paladino, both of New York — will have their passports returned to them and can leave the […]

Two teenage freshmen students attending the University of North Dakota (UND) were killed Friday in the crash of a 1971 Cessna 172L not owned by the school. The aircraft departed Crookston Municipal Airport (Minn.) at roughly 5:30 p.m. for the purpose of closed pattern work, which was expected to last an hour, according to a […]

The NTSB has finished its on-scene investigation of a Cirrus SR22 that crashed Thursday night while on approach to Runway 18R at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Killed in the crash of N665CD was George Vrana, the sole-occupant pilot and a partner with accounting firm Ernst & Young. Notably, the event marks the first accident at […]

AVMAIL AVmail: Dec. 4, 2006AVmail this week about safer, shorter runways, WAAS upgrades, TCAS troubles in Brazil and much more.

COLUMNS The Pilot’s Lounge #107: Penny Foolish, Pound StupidHow can someone spend a lot of money and even more time restoring an old airplane to a glorious work of flying art and then not spend the money it takes to make it safe? AVweb’s Rick Durden is shaking his head in The Pilot’s Lounge…

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