The FAA’s new financing proposal may have gotten a cool reception in Congress last week, but that’s not daunting FAA Administrator Marion Blakey, who is continuing to push for the plan’s acceptance. Speaking before the Royal Aeronautical Society in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Blakey acknowledged that “a bit of a stick fight” greeted the release […]
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General-aviation advocates are not the only ones crying foul when it comes to the airlines’ ideas about who should pay for what. While AOPA, NBAA and others last week protested the airlines’ claim that GA needs to shoulder a bigger share of the expense for the National Airspace System, this week a California airport agency […]
Prestige Aircraft last week celebrated the first flight of its first U.S.-built copy of the Storm Rally special-light sport aircraft. The Rally is an Italian design now being manufactured in Jackson, Mich. Prestige began with the idea of importing the airplanes, but soon decided that it would be a better idea to just build them […]
A hunter tramping through a Louisiana swamp last week in search of rabbits stumbled onto a wrecked airplane, half-buried in the muck. “The wings are broken off. The plane burned,” Harold Schoeffler of Lafayette told The Advocate. “You can see the path of plane parts where it came through the trees.” Schoeffler poked around a […]
Eclipse Aviation will build a new 41,585-square-foot, two-story facility at the Double Eagle II Airport, on the west side of Albuquerque, the company said Tuesday. Once it’s up and running by the end of this year, the new facility will house about 100 workers in a variety of roles, including training, flight support and administrative […]
A company in Canada is working on a pair of beefy new single-engine backcountry aircraft that should be certified soon. Expedition Aircraft of Toronto said on Wednesday that both of its multi-mission aircraft, the E350 and the E350XC, have already completed 90 percent of the work required to obtain certification. Both aircraft will be powered […]
The NTSB has brought in a glass specialist to try to figure out why 14 airplane windshields cracked during an hour-and-a-half at Denver International Airport last Friday afternoon. “We believe it is very remarkable to have this number of events in the same area at the same time,” FAA spokesman Allen Kenitzer told The Denver […]
Veterans who are leaving the service are looking for good jobs, and the aviation companies in Wichita have good jobs in need of ready workers. So this week union leaders and company executives jointly launched the “Hire A Hero” project to entice those vets to come to Wichita and start a training program. “We believe […]
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