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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. […]

Thanks to $900,000 in anonymous donations, an 8-acre plot of land near the spot where Glenn H. Curtiss flew his bamboo-and-fabric June Bug on July 2, 1908 may soon be turned into a park in honor of Curtiss. Curtiss’ achievement was the nation’s first officially observed flight exceeding one kilometer. The land, within the village […]

Cessna is defending its decision to have its 162 SkyCatcher LSA produced in China after fielding a volume of feedback that has “taken us to task,” according to Cessna’s interactive SkyCatcher Web site. According to Cessna, much of the feedback was “emotionally charged,” and some of it was decidedly negative. “I won’t go within 10 […]

Boeing shattered its previous single year record for orders in 2007, tabling some 1,413 for its commercial aircraft a year over year increase of close to 40 percent — 369 of the orders were for the 787 Dreamliner. The company’s prior net order records sat at 1,044 and 1,002 in 2006 and 2005, respectively. Boeing […]

The FAA has granted approval for Gulfstream’s PlaneView equipped business jets to fly Required Navigation Performance Special Aircraft and Aircrew Authorization Required (RNP SAAAR) approaches. The approval allows PlaneView equipped G550, G500, G450 and G350 aircraft to fly approach procedures using both global positioning and inertial navigation reference systems “to fly predetermined paths preloaded in […]

Commercial aviation in India is booming, as is the demand for professional pilots, but the development of “Hobby Flying” shows that the industry’s growth is not restricted to the commercial side. Though infrastructure still serves as the key bottleneck, some 50 private aircraft were added over the last year to the country’s flock of 208 […]

Congratulations! Here’s your pilot certificate, and here’s your desk. About 120 Air Force pilots may be wondering how they’re going to “do something amazing” (an Air Force advertising slogan) after being transferred to “fly” unmanned drone aircraft. Unmanned aerial drones have now logged more than 500,000 hours aloft and the swift demand for even more […]

Because a lot of snow fell, travel retailer itravel2000.com will be handing out nearly free trips (travelers must pay taxes) to all customers using Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International airport. The company’s promotion gamble hinged on 12.7 centimeters or more of snow falling in Calgary, Halifax, Montreal or Toronto on Jan. 1. The other cities […]