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A Britten-Norman Islander took off from the Dominican Republic on Monday afternoon, with 12 people on board bound for New York, but disappeared from radar 35 minutes later after sending an emergency signal, The Associated Press reported this week. Six airplanes, two helicopters, and a ship from the U.S. Coast Guard searched the seas near […]

Ohio colleges are being encouraged to develop specific courses to train business aircraft pilots. According to Dayton Daily News, expansion by Columbus-based NetJets and requests from Ohio business people have prompted the creation an introductory business aviation program at Sinclair College. Colleges and universities all over the state are being encouraged to follow suit. Sinclair […]

Cessna announced the first retail delivery of its recently certified Citation XLS+ business jet to an undisclosed customer on the U.S. East Coast. The XLS+ traces its roots to the Excel, introduced in 1998. The updated XLS came out in 2004 and the XLS+ was certified by the FAA in May of 2008. Among the […]

An Albuquerque television station is reporting that Eclipse Aviation’s application for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection was approved by a Delaware court on Monday and that there is competition for Roel Pieper’s bid to take over the company through a Luxembourg subsidiary of his company, ETIRC. KRQE does not identify the second potential purchaser for the […]

If there’s a pilot on your holiday shopping list who’s impossible to buy for, here’s a gift that should put a spark in any pilot’s eye — an hour in a full-motion Citation Mustang jet flight simulator. FlightSafety International is offering a special gift package for anyone with an interest, pilot or not, the Wichita […]

Air shows continue to be one of the best vehicles for introducing the masses to the world of aviation, and this week brought announcements about two major new shows coming up next year. Colorado Sport Aviation said it will launch the Colorado Sport International Air Show and Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In at the Rocky Mountain […]

Is a first flight imminent for the White Knight Two? When the huge double-hulled aircraft rolled out last summer in Mojave, the media was told to expect a first flight by the end of this year. This week, Flight International reports that at least one low-speed taxi trial took place last Friday at about 3 […]

click for larger image The FAA has made the Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) around Washington, D.C. permanent (and called it a Special Flight Rules Area (SFRA)), but AOPA says it will keep fighting to get rid of it. “While this is a final rule,” Andy Cebula, AOPA’s executive vice president of government affairs said […]

Saturday, December 13th, a four hour event organized at a little airport in Southern California brought together local fire bomber crews, private pilots, Marines and local residents and resulted in a seven-ton Marine truck full of toys destined for those children less fortunate. The Toys For Tots drive is an annual Marine Corps event in […]

photos by Robert Kirchner The San Diego Air and Space Museum honored Frank Borman, James Lovell Jr. and William Anders for the milestones they achieved as the first humans to travel to the moon and back in a capsule the size of a Volkswagen front seat. It was a historic evening that allowed a sold-out […]