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If Honda Aircraft Co. Inc. doesn’t set up a plant to manufacture its forthcoming jet engines in Burlington, N.C., city fathers may have a local politician to blame. Last Friday, state Representative Cary Allred let it slip that North Carolina transportation department officials told him Honda and Burlington would announce a deal to locate the […]

The aftermath of last September’s midair collision between a Gol Airlines Boeing 737-800 and a brand-new Embraer Legacy 600 bizjet operated by U.S.-based ExcelAire has become more complicated in recent days. Last week, a Brazilian federal judge indicted the two Legacy pilots, Joseph Lepore, 42, and Jan Paul Paladino, 34, who prosecutors say accidentally turned […]

Monday afternoon’s crash into Lake Michigan of a Cessna Citation Bravo engaged in transporting human organs for transplant killed all six aboard the flight, including the two crew and four medical team members. The jet, N550BP, had just launched from Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport (KMKE), headed for the Willow Run Airport (KYPS) near Detroit, […]

“The bottom line is pilots can continue using their IFR GPS units like before,” according to Randy Kenagy, AOPA’s senior director of strategic planning. Background: When the FAA revised policies that instruct pilots on how to use GPS units under instrument flight rules, AOPA saw in those changes reason to question IFR use for many […]

Lancair’s calling it “an aircraft that will be faster and safer than any other single engine aircraft in existence today.” And when we spoke Monday with Lancair CEO Joe Bartels, he sounded excited and only slightly less vague than his company’s press release. He did say, however, that “it’s not a jet; it’s a turboprop,” […]

A Cessna Citation 550 twinjet that was carrying donated organs and a medical transplant team crashed in Lake Michigan late Monday afternoon, killing all six people aboard the airplane. The crew had reported an emergency less than five minutes after taking off from Milwaukee and requested a return to the airport, FAA spokesman Tony Molinaro […]

All three aboard a Piper PA-34-200 Seneca twin (N4463T) registered to a Van Nuys, Calif. business were injured when the aircraft, which departed Van Nuys at 9:47 a.m. on Monday, crashed about 15 minutes later into homes before coming to rest atop a garage not far from the approach end of Cable Airport, roughly 45 […]

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed suit on behalf of three terror suspects against Jeppesen for “knowingly” helping the CIA spirit them to various countries so they could be tortured. Jeppesen spokesman Mike Pound is quoted by the Denver Business Journal as saying that its business is to supply charts and flight planning information, […]

After losing a vote at the Senate Commerce Committee, opponents of a Senate bill that would impose a $25-per-flight modernization “surcharge” aimed at business aircraft are hoping for better luck with the Senate’s finance committee. A couple of weeks ago, the commerce committee passed, by a single vote, an FAA reauthorization bill that included the […]

After some embarrassing incidents in air traffic control facilities across the country, the FAA has announced it will supply weather radios and air-quality monitors to select ATC facilities. Last September, as part of the package of work rules imposed by the FAA in its forced settlement of a contract dispute, the agency ordered tower controllers […]