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The light sport aircraft (LSA) segment might have reached another milestone in the last few weeks. It appears the first type club (the first we’ve heard of, anyway) has been formed for owners of Flight Design CT aircraft and is doing all the things that type clubs do, including hosting fly-ins, holding seminars and generally […]

At least one Canadian airline is concerned that a measure intended to make flying safer could actually spark some security problems in the terminal. A no-fly list of unknown length, but containing a lot of very common names, will be used to screen airline passengers in Canada starting today, and Air Canadas security chief is […]

Deployment of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) and Wide Area Multilateration around Yampa Valley and Garfield County Airports in Colorado is expected to make it safer and more convenient for skiers flocking to the area’s ski resorts. Sensis Corp., which was awarded the contract to install the systems, says the implementation will also save millions of […]

Doctors who work for University of North Carolina’s Area Health Education Center (AHEC) say they’ve been pressured to not oppose the university’s plan to close the on-campus airport that allows them quick deployment to far-flung areas of the state. The university wants to close Horace Williams Airport to make way for a new research center, […]

FAA Administrator Marion Blakey is painting a bleak picture of the future of air travel if her controversial formula to fund the agency isn’t adopted. In a speech delivered during the Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) Day on the Hill late last week, Blakey told members of Congress that air traffic gridlock is on […]

The FAA declared Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) to be fully operational in Alaska on May 31, and now it’s working on the rest of the country. Following “extensive technical analysis,” the agency determined that ADS-B is a far more accurate way to keep airplanes from banging into each other. “The evaluation found that over 96 […]

John Carr, the former president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, says high-level talks are under way to get NATCA and the FAA back to the bargaining table with the aim of hammering out a negotiated settlement. In his blog last week he wrote that a tentative agreement has been reached to return to […]

BRAINTEASERS Quiz #121: Stress — Deal With It Stress accompanies flight — Don’t Panic! Some stress is good, some not so. Recently, while checking out in a stubby-winged Thorp T-18, the Brainteaser author stressed himself and the airplane. Share the humiliation and test your stress limits.

Hawker Beechcraft plans to mark the 60th anniversary of the Bonanza and the 75th anniversary of Beechcraft next month at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis. The events begin with the Bonanzas-to-Oshkosh arrival on Saturday, before the show starts. At least 100 Bonanzas and Barons of all models will gather at Rockford, Ill., to fly in […]

When the air traffic system clogged up along the East Coast last Friday, a spokesman for the Air Transport Association told the media that general aviation is a significant cause of delays. “Nothing could be further from the truth,” says Dan Hubbard, spokesman for the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA). “Almost all delays are caused […]