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Jetcruzer Assets Up For Auction… With all the big names struggling, it’s hard to imagine there are a lot of people interested in starting up an airplane company — unless, of course, the price is right. Well, for the price of a fancied-up Cessna single, or even less, you too can buy your own airplane […]

Cessna Axes 1,500 With the economy’s Scrooge and perhaps some help from the Grinch of terrorism, GA’s Big Three (and their increasingly nervous workforces) are facing the blackest Christmas in years. And nobody in the business is expecting any gifts under the tree until, perhaps, the 2004 holiday season. “We thought it had bottomed out […]

One Set Of Rules Urged… AOPA is asking the FAA to scrap recent changes to its field approval policy throughout the country and not just in Alaska. Alaskan aviators, after some pointed discussions with their politicians and regional FAA staff, won a reprieve from Change 15 to the field approval policy. The change effectively eliminated […]

Government To Declare ATC “Commercial”… After two years of crying wolf, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) says it has the teeth marks to prove the government intends to contract out its members’ jobs. NATCA spokesman Doug Church said the union was notified Wednesday that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated […]

The Economics Of Innovation… After creating the jet and proving the market, development of the Eclipse 500 has hit a hurdle of potentially grand proportions with their announcement last week to part ways with the engine their aircraft was built around. While the state of affairs at the company will prove itself in the coming […]

New Rule Announced… Well, the FAA and the National Park Service must have had such a good time implementing flight restrictions over the Grand Canyon, they have decided to spread that joy to all corners of the country. Starting this fall, the two agencies will begin the almost unimaginably complex task of applying Grand Canyon-style […]

Commission Releases Future Of Aerospace Report… Could there be a military air traffic controller in your future? Civilian and military air traffic management systems may become a lot more integrated in the future. The Commission on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry released its final report Tuesday recommending, among other things, a new, highly […]

Thousands more aircraft with high-horsepower Lycoming engines could be grounded by an FAA order (read: Airworthiness Directive) this week, according to The Wall Street Journal. The Journal said the new order will affect up to 2,000 engines not covered by previous Emergency Airworthiness Directives (ADs) to replace substandard crankshaft bolts. The previous order covered mostly […]

Previous Losses Offset Future, Says Chairman… Perhaps, by current Wall Street standards, the situation at Mooney doesn’t look so bad. But the New York moneymen behind the Mooney Aerospace Group (MAG) are finding rays of sunshine in places where others see only dark clouds. Sam Rothman, a Wall Street fund manager and chairman of MAG’sboard […]

IDs, Background Checks “Unconstitutional”… Yet another state is trying to jump the legal pecking order and pass its own laws on pilot identification and background checks. The New Jersey Senate has introduced Bill 1438 (sponsored by Sen. Peter A. Inverso (R)) that would require any student pilot or any pilot who wants to rent an […]