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China has announced it will form a company by March of this year to pursue its long-held ambition to build an indigenous large jet airliner. With the ARJ21, essentially a DC-9 updated with U.S.-made engines and avionics, ready to fly about the same time, and the recent creation of a capable front-line jet fighter, the […]

On the heels of its takeover of TAG Aviation’s U.S. aircraft management business, Sentient Jet Holdings LLC has acquired Van Nuys-based The Air Group for an undisclosed amount. Sentient says the acquisition makes it the “leading manager of aircraft in the country.” The purchase bookends Sentient’s burgeoning operation with new facilities at Teterboro and Van […]

Cessna is mounting an airlift between Long Beach, Calif., and Phoenix this month trying to convince workers and their families to move with the company to Arizona. Cessna is moving its Long Beach business jet service center to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport and, as you might expect, it’s hoping the 80 mechanics and support staff that […]

The House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming is turning up the heat on the Environmental Protection Agency over the contribution of aircraft emissions to global warming. Committee Chairman Edward Markey, D-Mass., has written a letter wondering whether “the agency has plans to regulate heat-trapping global warming emissions from Americas aviation sector, continuing […]

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AVweb founder Mike Busch, who now pens the popular Savvy Aviator column on aircraft maintenance, has been picked as the FAA Western-Pacific Region’s nominee for AMT Of The Year. Busch was chosen over five other nominees on the West Coast and will now go up against AMTs from the rest of the country for the […]

Massachusetts State Police are asking for public help in finding whoever is responsible for allegedly firing a model rocket at an AirWisconsin regional jet on Saturday. FAA spokeswoman Holly Baker told The Boston Globe that the pilot reported seeing a “spark or firework” in front of the plane as he was descending through 500 feet […]

American Airlines has agreed to have three of its operational Boeing 767s outfitted with missile defense systems. According to The Press Association, the installation, on passenger-carrying aircraft that normally fly between New York and San Francisco, is the last phase of a trial by BAE Systems to protect airliners from missiles, particularly shoulder-launched weapons that […]

More than a year after unwittingly losing his pilot’s logbook in an airport security snafu, a New York man opened his mailbox last week to discover a package containing the precious pad in which he had documented three decades of flying adventures. In October 2006, the pilot — who asked not to be identified — […]

Robert Steinmetz, who was identified in the FAA’s preliminary report as a “sport pilot,” crashed his “Garniss STOL 701” high-wing (experimental aircraft are often registered by builder name followed by aircraft model) into a field near his home on the outskirts of Las Cruces, N.M., Dec. 15, killing himself and leaving family members as witnesses. […]