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AOPA will fight any attempt to impose peak-hour pricing (congestion pricing) under AOPA President Phil Boyer’s charge that “all federally funded airports, by law, must be open to all classes of users without unjust discrimination.” Boyer added that general aviation is not the problem causing airline delays and shouldn’t pay a penalty for them. AOPA […]

An initial report offered by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch Friday said interviews with crew and analysis of the “Flight Recorder” aboard the British Airways Boeing 777 200ER that crashed Thursday at Heathrow indicate the aircraft’s engines did not respond to commands from the autothrottle or the flight crew. First Officer John Coward, the flying […]

Day one of the Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Fla. opened Thursday under gray skies and blustery winds (but little of the much-needed rain that drought-stricken Floridians are hoping for) and vendors are expecting a bigger and more diverse version of the show. AVweb will be running daily photo galleries and watch for updates through […]

It seems the rumors rippling through the VLJ industry the past week were true and Adam Aircraft has shrunk operations by about 30 percent while it finds the money to finish certification of the A700 jet and gets ready to go into full production of the A500 piston twin. According to an Associated Press story, […]

A British Airways Boeing 777 inbound from Bejing with 136 passengers and 16 crew aboard crashed Thursday short of the runway at Heathrow Airport, injuring roughly 18 of those aboard. Early reports from credible sources are few. Witnesses claimed the flight’s approach was lower than normal and that the aircraft banked steeply before clearing a […]

Seabird Aviation Australia is looking into the feasibility of producing a three seat variant of its Seeker SB7L-360 to take advantage of the aircraft’s helicopter-like forward sitting bubble cabin and target the sight-seeing industry. The Sight-Seer would take advantage of the aircraft’s pusher configuration, with its cabin located ahead of the high wing and aft-facing […]

The Air Taxi Association Europe has officially launched, with founding operators including AccelJet, AirCab, Air-Cannes, Bikkair, Blink, byJets, ETIRC Aviation, GlobeAir, Gonow, JetBird, Jet Ready, LEA, Taxijet, and Wondair. The assiciation will work to develop strategic committees on technical standards, finances, manufacturers, lobbying, and communications. It aims to stimulate demand and the adoption of best […]

The wake of a 747 that crossed its path is a suspect in the upset event that injured eight passengers and two crew aboard an Air Canada Airbus A319 flying at 35,000 feet Thursday January 10. A fully loaded 747 can weigh more than five times as much as an Airbus A319. The A319 rolled […]

The NTSB this week issued a preliminary report on the Dec. 30 crash of a Cirrus SR22 in Paso Robles, Calif., that killed Cirrus sales representative Thomas Leveque. The report echoes information that AVweb learned from an earlier interview with the NTSB investigator in charge of the accident, in that it does not provide any […]

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) on Wednesday declared a “staffing emergency” at the Dallas-Fort Worth Terminal Radar Approach Control (DFW TRACON) and called on the FAA to act immediately to stem the loss of veteran controllers. The facility is dealing with a 34-percent drop in the number of fully trained and certified controllers […]