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In the continuing response to a June 5 incident that left an Eclipse 500 flying over Chicago Midway with its throttles wide-open and unresponsive, Eclipse sent a service bulletin Thursday to explain how operators should comply with a new airworthiness directive from the FAA that clarifies mandatory inspections of the 500’s throttle quadrant assembly. The […]

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association Thursday reported second-quarter shipment and billing figures that continue at a record-setting pace, without any help from the piston market. The industry as a whole showed a 24.1 percent increase for the first half of 2008 and totaled $12.1 billion, but was driven by an increase in worldwide bizjet and […]

A new program just launched by Fly History LLC is designed to give pilots the ability to train, qualify and then have solo flying-club-like access to T-6 Texan, T-34 Mentor and PT-17 aircraft. The company is currently filling slots for 20 charter members at each of six locations, nationwide. The fees paid by members will […]

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FAA staffers will check a random sample of 29 light sport aircraft manufacturers over the next 10 months to assess how well they are applying the industry’s consensus-based ASTM standards, EAA said last week. A meeting between FAA officials, EAA staff and LSA manufacturers at EAA AirVenture laid out the details of the FAA plan. […]

SATSair, an air-taxi operator based in Greenville, S.C., has announced it will add Cirrus Design‘s new SJ50 single-engine jet to its fleet of 26 Cirrus SR22s. The jets will expand the range of the company’s present air-taxi services, SATSair CEO Steve Hanvey said on Tuesday. “Our business model is based on operating single-pilot and single-engine […]

If you’d like to learn more about aviation but don’t necessarily want to go back to school, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has a new online program that can fill that need. The school is offering 23 new aviation courses online, and no enrollment in the university is required. Just sign up online, pay your $99 per […]

When the Oregon Aero SkyDancer wrote “Get Well Alan” in white smoke across the blue sky above Oshkosh last week, it wasn’t only to express the company’s wishes to the crowds at EAA AirVenture. Alan Henley, the lead pilot for the Aeroshell Aerobatic Team, who was spending the show in a hospital bed instead of […]

A Sikorsky S-61N helicopter used by the U.S. Department of Forestry to fight fires crashed at about 7:30 p.m. local time Tuesday in a remote wooded area about 35 miles northwest of Redding, Calif. Of the 11 firefighters and two pilots reported to be on board, nine were unaccounted for and presumed dead and four […]

Although reliability and performance are always mentioned in promotional material for business jets, Russian planemaker Antonov has carved out a pretty difficult niche for competitors of its Antonov Business Jet to match. “The head of Russia’s Business Aviation lobby Maksim Fedotov admits he’d rather have [a well-known business jet] than a domestic jet,” Russia Today […]