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Passenger groups fighting airlines for the right to spend delays in relative comfort (as opposed to confined to stuffy aluminum tubes) have won … something … in Canada. Canada has launched a Flight Rights Canada program that offers passengers using Canadian-based airlines a degree of protection from ground-bound suffering with new guidelines that direct airlines […]

“General aviation is more secure” following 9/11, according to AOPA president Phil Boyer, “in large part, because the pilot community has a vested interest in protecting their aircraft and airports.” Perhaps just as important, it’s possible that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has noticed, too. DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff recently said, “the fact is […]

Photo provided to AVweb courtesy of the CAP Historical Foundation and Major Andrew J. Feldman, NY Wing CAP. This photo is from the first low-altitude fixed-wing photo recon mission over the World Trade Center wreckage, flown by the Civil Air Patrol on September 12, 2001. (Click for a larger version.) Seven years later, we still […]

If you’ve flown your corporate-owned aircraft to Canada anytime in the last five years there’s a good chance you’ll be getting a bill in the mail NavCanada for back taxes owed on the fees you paid to the private air traffic control provider. NavCanada spokesman Ron Singer told AVweb that about 3,500 “customers” got bills […]

Citing a need to enhance efficiency and redirect resources, Cirrus Design this week eliminated about 100 jobs at its plants in Duluth and Grand Forks, in Minnesota. “We’re dealing with some straightforward realities,” company president Brent Wouters told the Duluth News Tribune. “We’re in a difficult economic environment that has impacted the aviation business. We’re […]

The dispute over the future of a rare F-82 Twin Mustang that has long been operated by the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) will go back to court, the CAF says. The case has already been heard by a district court in Ohio, which ruled that the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, which wants […]

A blue-ribbon panel that was told by the Department of Transportation several months ago to look into the “safety culture” of the FAA has filed its report. “We have found the FAA’s aviation safety staff to be unambiguously committed to its core mission of safety,” the panel reported. “However, we find a remarkable degree of […]

The recently formed Thielert Engine Owners Group (THENOG) said on Tuesday that it will “exhaust every available legal, political and economic avenue” to ensure that any new owner of the bankrupt company will not leave owners high and dry. The group was responding to last week’s announcement from Thielert that several purchase offers have been […]

Dick Silva has been working for over 10 years to get the popular Seawind experimental amphibian to the market as a certified aircraft, and this week, he said he has found some new investors and hopes to soon restart operations. Last year, the company’s only flying prototype was destroyed in a crash that killed the […]

The world’s most important business aviation event, the National Business Aviation Association’s annual convention, is coming up Oct. 6-8 in Orlando and there will be hundreds of product announcements and updates. AVweb will be there with daily coverage of the events, news conferences and announcements that make this show so important but if your company […]