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The NTSB said on Tuesday it wants the FAA to modify the way it schedules air traffic controller work shifts to minimize disrupted sleep patterns and fatigue. The Safety Board said controller fatigue has been an ongoing concern, but the issue was raised again after last August’s fatal crash of a Comair regional jet on […]

The Alliance for Aviation Across America announced its arrival on Tuesday morning, launching an effort to expand beyond the aviation community and include small businesses and rural areas in opposition to the FAA’s proposed changes to its funding system. “Community airports that serve small towns are critical to our security, our mobility during national emergencies, […]

An update to the Air Defense Identification Zone over Washington, D.C., is due by July, but the details are continuing to be worked out and that date might be extended, AOPA said on Monday. At a briefing for local pilots held last week, some FAA officials suggested the final ADIZ could end up smaller than […]

The FAA on Monday published its final rule regarding how it will compensate aviation businesses in the Washington, D.C., area that suffered financial losses due to airport closures following 9/11. Congress has provided up to $17 million for reimbursements, with no more than $5 million to go to the three Maryland airports: College Park, Potomac […]

The FAA hasn’t reviewed the duration of aviation medicals since extending the duration of third-class medical certificates from two years to three years for individuals under age 40 in 1996, and it believes it’s time to do so again. On Tuesday, the agency issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would increase the duration of […]

It appears that FAA Administrator Marion Blakey is backing off on her claim that “one hundred percent of our major capital programs are on schedule and on budget,” a statement she delivered in testimony to the House appropriations subcommittee on March 22. During a speech last Thursday at the Pratt & Whitney Women’s Leadership Forum, […]

Actor and aviation aficionado John Travolta is denying published reports that he was forced to declare an emergency while flying his personal Boeing 707 from Germany to New York last Monday. Despite reports stating he successfully landed his ex-Qantas Boeing 707-138 at Shannon, Ireland, after what reportedly were engine-related “technical difficulties,” Travolta says he had […]

Naverus, a Seattle-based company developing required navigation performance flight procedures for air carriers and private operators, said this week it had obtained FAA authorization as an RNP procedure developer. According to the company, the new FAA authorization — the first company so recognized by the agency — recognizes its ability to provide all the products […]

Gulfstream Aerospace last week said it recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new business-jet manufacturing building at its headquarters in Savannah, and did so 40 years after the company began operations at the site. The new 306,104-square-foot manufacturing building is in addition to approximately 400,000 square feet of existing manufacturing space the company already […]

It used to be an FBO lounge was a calm shelter from the outside world. Few people even knew the FBO existed — over there on the other side of the airport — and even fewer had a reason to go there. Pilots and passengers could go to an FBO and actually count on some […]