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Piper’s version of the VLJ is still at least two years shy of deliveries, but while customers wait, the company is enticing them with step-up deals from the company’s piston and turboprop offerings. “We’re seeing a trend,” says Bob Kromer, Piper’s sales VP. “Some customers are saying I want a jet in 2012, but I […]

DayJet, the pioneering air taxi operator that is Eclipse Aviation’s largest customer, has suspended operations and apparently vacated its Boca Raton headquarters. Although the company’s Web site is still operational, calls to the main switchboard are being answered with voice mail. On Thursday, DayJet management were quoted in newspaper stories as saying the controversy over […]

General aviation pilots are often frustrated in their efforts to lend a hand with their aircraft after a natural disaster, but Fred Quarles, of Operation Teacup, is welcoming help from willing aircraft owners. Volunteers can expect “No pay, no thanks, hard work, little sleep, and all the alligators you want,” Quarles said this week. “The […]

Although the congressional panel that met in Washington on Wednesday said the issue wasn’t Eclipse, but the FAA’s allegedly inadequate oversight and flawed procedures, Eclipse Aviation has issued a “fact sheet” in response to the inspector general’s testimony and other matters that arose at the hearing. The fact sheet, which is posted at an Eclipse […]

While Hurricane Ike has faded from memory for most of the country, those hit by the storm will think of little else in coming weeks as the cleanup goes on. In the aviation world, nowhere did the storm wreak more havoc than at the Lone Star Flight Museum, in Galveston. As we mentioned in earlier […]

The flight of the replica of Glenn Curtiss’s America in Hammondsport, New York last weekend was captured in beautiful air-to-air photos, provided to AVweb by Jean Doherty of the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum. Dozens of volunteers worked for more than a decade to make the flight possible. CLICK FOR LARGER INDIVIDUAL IMAGES EACH IMAGE WILL […]

A congressional committee on Wednesday heard a litany of concerns about the FAA’s oversight of the certification of the Eclipse very light jet, including a report that the FAA okayed the jet for a single pilot even though the FAA’s Flight Standardization Board had determined that the aircraft required a two-pilot crew. The House Aviation […]

There’s no such things as cheap gas. Nonetheless, prices vary as much as $3 per gallon from one FBO to another and that’s more than $100 on a typical fill-up. Our sister publication, Aviation Consumer, is conducting a survey on how pilots find the best prices on gas. To chime in, e-mail avconsumer@comcast.net. (The results […]

Aviation’s relative immunity to a host of political, economic and even social issues that have dragged down virtually every other sector couldn’t last forever and the potential failure of American International Group Inc. (AIG) could be the fly in the ointment. MarketWatch, The Wall Street Journal’s online newsletter, says AIG may have to sell its […]

Against a backdrop of international tensions over Russia’s involvement in Georgia, Russia’s biggest business aviation exhibition opens today. Geopolitics notwithstanding, Jet Expo 2008 promises to be bigger than ever with all the major manufacturers represented in the static display at Vnukovo Airport and hundreds of exhibitors filling the Crocus Expo exhibition center. The message seems […]