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The NTSB this week issued its annual list of “Most Wanted Safety Improvements,” and topping the list for aviation: Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Flights, making the list for the first time. “Although the Board has issued recommendations to improve EMS safety, the FAA has not implemented the changes,” the NTSB said. “In the last 11 […]

Forecast International, an aerospace market think tank says Eclipse Aviation will likely cease production early in 2009 because it’s unlikely to find the $200 million it needs to keep going. In a news release on Tuesday, analyst Douglas Royce says Eclipse’s back is against the wall after a series of setbacks. “We believe that the […]

Six months after buying the assets of Adam Aircraft for just $10 million, AAI Acquisitions is all but pulling the pin on a bid to revive the A700 very light jet program. The company announced Tuesday it’s suspending the certification program on the A700 and canceling plans to hire hundreds of workers at Centennial Airport […]

Pratt and Whitney Canada has announced it will build a 300,000-square-foot engine assembly plant and flight test center at Montreal’s Mirabel Airport as part of more than $575 million in investment in facilities in Quebec over the next five years. The Mirabel Aerospace Center will house the production facilities for P&WC’s new PW800 series geared […]

It may still be over nine months away, but it’s not too soon for the folks in Oshkosh — or for aviators around the world — to be planning and working and thinking about EAA AirVenture 2009. The date has already been set — July 27 to Aug. 2 — and so far several highlights […]

The deadline is nearing to apply for support from the Wolf Aviation Fund, which provides funding for innovative projects that promote and support general aviation. Proposals must be submitted by Nov. 15. The fund provides grants once each year, of a few hundred dollars to a maximum of $10,000. Proposals are easy to prepare, and […]

A Connecticut court has rejected yet another bid by a civic government to chip away at the virtually absolute authority of the FAA in aviation matters. According to Stratford, Conn., lawyer Paul Lange, the town of East Haven was trying to block the Tweed New Haven Airport Authority from proceeding with an FAA-funded runway safety […]

Stage II business jet operations have dropped by 43 percent and night operations at Teterboro Airport have been cut by 16 percent since operators instituted a voluntary ban on those types of activities two years ago. At a news conference on Tuesday, representatives of the Teterboro Airport Industry Working Group’s “Pledge to the Community Program” […]

Airship Ventures is now up and running with its German-built Zeppelin, offering sightseeing flights to the general public in an airship, the first time such flights have been available in the U.S. in about seven decades. The company started media flights this week from Moffett Field, just south of San Francisco, and will start passenger […]

The FAA released its latest Flight Plan (PDF) on Tuesday, in which the agency sets out its goals and priorities for the next four years, from 2009 to 2013. Reducing general aviation accidents is one of the agency’s top objectives. According to the report, the last three-year period was the safest ever recorded in the […]