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COLUMNS CEO of the Cockpit #58: My Night with MarioYoung pilots may want a layover hotel with an excercise room, but those who’ve travelled the world know it’s more interesting to get out of the hotel and find some authentic nightlife. AVweb’s CEO of the Cockpit always tries to find a place like Mario’s. ___________________MAINTENANCE […]

Both pilots died but their three passengers swam away with only minor injuries after the Learjet 35A they were on crashed in Long Island Sound just short of the Groton-New London Airport runway on Friday. According to the Hartford Courant, the plane went down just 100 yards short of the runway in shallow water. The […]

An outspoken Utah businessman is facing charges after allegedly flying his powered paraglider beside and over a busy interstate. And the FAA is also considering action against “Super” Dell Schanze for the incident about 10 days ago. As AVweb told you last week, motorists doing the morning commute on I-15 on May 24 complained of […]

We all know the in-flight emergency mantra to “fly the airplane” but Monty Coles’ handful on a flight from West Virginia to southern Ohio last week was of a different nature. Coles was just setting up to land his Piper Cherokee at Gallipolis, Ohio, when a four-and-a-half foot black snake slithered out of the instrument […]

Owners of most bizjets and larger twins have been swept up in a complex registration system that has changed the rules for buying, selling and financing aircraft. The Aircraft Protocol to the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment came into effect on March 1 and was largely unnoticed in GA because its […]

Authorities are puzzling over what may have been the in-flight break-up of a PA-28 that killed four in Stafford County, N.J., just north of Atlantic City last Wednesday. NTSB Investigator David Muzio told the Press of Atlantic City that the airplane left a trail of debris about 2,000 feet long before the main wreckage came […]

The alternative energy movement, says the FAA, at the behest of the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security, is threatening development of wind turbine projects, tagged by President Bush to become a power-producing mainstay in the U.S. The DOD is currently studying whether wind turbines interfere with defense and homeland security radar systems […]

Pilots flying out of Oceanside Airport, near San Diego, say the local city council’s shortsightedness will result in rent increases of as much as 50 percent this year. According to the North County Times, the city council meets Wednesday to consider raising rents on some old hangars from $400 to as much as $600 a […]

Coming, Friday: New aircraft from New Piper? Check AVweb.com tomorrow and look for the podcast link at the top of the page.Online Now: Exclusive interviews featuring Excel Jet’s Bob Bornhofen, Adam Aircraft’s Joe Walker, FAA administrator Marion Blakey, Cirrus Design’s Alan Klapmeier and more. AVweb‘s Podcast index, is available online — pick and choose your […]

COLUMNS As the Beacon Turns #101: Returned To ServiceLike pilots, planes that have been out of the air for a while shouldn’t be taken up on a whim. AVweb’s Michael Maya Charles needed to give his C185 some TLC this spring.