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Full-page ads in the papers of America’s most aviation-oriented cities — Wichita, Savannah and Seattle — are attempting to draw 100 specialized engineers to the HondaJet headquarters at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, N.C. Cessna and Boeing may be laying off, but Honda Aircraft Co. is starting to ramp up. The specific technical positions […]

American Airlines has decided that its possible failure to equip aircraft with enough emergency life rafts means that it will limit the number of passengers it carries on those aircraft until it knows exactly how many rafts it might need. That means American’s Boeing 767-300 aircraft, which are configured to hold 236 people (including crew) […]

Boeing this week bumped up its previously announced plan to cut 4,500 jobs, and will lay off a total of 10,000 workers, the company told reporters during a conference call on Wednesday. That’s about 6 percent of the company’s total workforce. Boeing blamed last year’s strike and the global recession for its losses. “The progress […]

If you were looking forward to the new NBAA Light Business Aircraft show (LBA2009) scheduled for this March in San Diego, you can still catch all of those seminars and exhibits — but they’ll be moving to the site of the regular NBAA annual convention, in Orlando, Fla., in October. NBAA, faced with today’s grim […]

Cessna has revised its SkyCatcher design with a new tail, and brought the airplane to last week’s Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Fla., to show to potential customers and the press. The new tail surface is bigger and more vertical, and project engineer Neal Wilford told AVweb the new design is now in flight testing […]

No, they’re not ordering in pizza, though that might be part of the FAA’s plan for the day. They’re preparing to handle the large increase in GA traffic in the Tampa Bay area for the upcoming Super Bowl, on Sunday, Feb. 1. The FAA expects that as many as 1,000 additional GA aircraft will use […]

Diamond Aircraft Industries has received EASA Type Certification for its Austro E4 turbo-diesel airplane engine, the company announced on Wednesday. The certification has been in the works for almost four years, but recently interest in the engine has intensified as Thielert, another European manufacturer of diesels for GA aircraft, encountered financial difficulties and declared bankruptcy. […]

Click for video of the Falcon 7X interior White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday at a press briefing that President Barack Obama “doesn’t believe” using private jets “is the best use of money”– at least not if that money is from a federally financed bailout package. In response to a question about Citigroup […]

As corporations try to trim costs by cutting back on their in-house flight departments, business workers in need of long-distance transport may turn to luxury airlines — at least, that’s the hope of Emirates Airlines, based in Dubai. The airline hopes to appeal to business-class and first-class travelers in the U.S. who need to travel […]

Although Duane Woerth, a former president of the Air Line Pilots Association, has long been considered a strong contender to take over as next FAA administrator, Senate aide Robert Herbert seems to be making headway, the Washington Post reported on Monday. Herbert is an advisor to Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., the Senate majority leader, and […]