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The Evergreen Aviation Museum, in McMinnville, Ore., is planning a $6.9 million expansion including an IMAX movie theater to open this fall, The Associated Press reported last week. The 55,000-square-foot expansion also will include new conference rooms, office space, exhibit space and a gift shop. The museum is best-known as the home of the Spruce […]

“Only YOU can prevent pilot deviations,” says the FAA, and pilots who fly out of Teterboro (N.J.) Airport are being warned to comply precisely with “Teterboro 5” IFR departure procedures or risk a midair collision. There have been many altitude deviations by pilots flying this procedure, the FAA said in a notice posted Friday, and […]

Boeing CEO Harry Stonecipher has been booted from the company for breaking its code of conduct by having an affair with a female executive at the company … but he still is parachuting away with more than $2 million. Last Thursday, Boeing told the Securities and Exchange Commission that Stonecipher would be paid the $2.1 […]

After a troubled week that included two separate engine malfunctions and the start of a federal investigation, Canadian discount airline Jetsgo abruptly quit flying its fleet of 29 jets on Friday and filed for protection from creditors. As many as 17,000 passengers were stranded in the midst of a busy school-vacation travel week. Jetsgo said […]

Pilots now can get better weather information thanks to new airborne sensors that NASA has installed on a fleet of commuter airliners. Sixty-four Saab 340 aircraft flown by Minneapolis-based Mesaba Airlines now carry the Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Report (TAMDAR) sensor, which automatically senses and reports atmospheric conditions. Observations are sent by satellite to a […]

WHAT’S NEW What’s New for March 2005This month AVweb’s survey of the latest products and services for pilots, mechanics and aircraft owners brings you a book on night flying, a density altitude thermometer, vortex generators for Stinsons and much more.

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