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While there’s still no word on what will happen to the FAA’s (heavily influenced) bid to make the Washington Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) a permanent fixture, the sore spot was rubbed a little earlier this month when the NOTAM that enforces the long list of flight restrictions was reissued. A couple of days after […]

The NTSB said Thursday that “airliner fuel tanks are as flammable today as they were 10 years ago,” as the tenth anniversary of the explosion of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island looms on July 17. (The incident was not the first of its kind — one event happened quite recently.) And while an effective […]

Well, you know that annoying high spot in the runway at your home airport? Those based at or visiting Bloomsburg Municipal Airport in Pennsylvania last week were counting their lucky stars that the grading crews weren’t as thorough as they might have been as they huddled on the last patch of dry pavement during a […]

As the U.S. eyes Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) as an important tool in the modernization of the National Airspace System, Australia is backing off on its ambitious deployment program. Airservices Australia has cancelled a request for proposals (RPF) to equip 1,500 GA aircraft with the necessary gear to perform a real-life test of the system. […]

AOPA has writtenthe FAA asking that a section of a proposed airworthiness directiveon Lycoming crankshafts be scrapped since it will cost owners thousands of dollars and do nothing to increase safety. As we reported in June, the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking would require owners of about 3,800 360- and 540-series engines to replace the crankshafts […]

Coming, Friday: 250 knots, 450 ft. takeoff, landing speed about 80 and room for 4. Some people will likely be dropping $180,000 for the kit, but will this flying car fly? Check AVweb.com tomorrow for the podcast link at the top of the page. Online Now: Exclusive interviews featuring New Piper’s Jim Bass, Excel Jet’s […]

It’s been good times for Mooney lately, with the introduction of two speedy new models in the past few months, and fair winds were with the company again last week, when CEO Gretchen Jahn took first place in the Air Race Classic, recording an average speed near 195 knots. In her 14th year in the […]

The FAA has released its draft Environmental Assessment for a plan by Blue Origin to build a spaceport in West Texas. The move was welcomed by space fans as a move forward in what seems to be an excruciatingly slow-moving process, and a glimpse into what the secretive company has in the works. The FAA […]

“It may be time for the city to re-evaluate this strategy,” Laurence Msall, president of the Civic Federation, a budget watchdog group, told Crain’s Business News. The FAA levied the $33,000 fine against the city last October for failing to provide advance notice of its intent to close (that is, bulldoze) Meigs Field three years […]

The 1,000 or so residents of Block Island, 12 miles off the New England coast, are facing six weeks or more with no aviation access later this year, when the local airport corporation plans to close their lone 2,500-foot runway for reconstruction. That will leave islanders dependent on the off-season ferry schedule, or in an […]