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The International Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (IAOPA) is pressing the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to adopt the so-called driver’s license medical as the standard for all private pilots. At the recent World Assembly held in Chicago just before AirVenture 2016, the 63 delegates from 28 member nations passed the following resolution: “The IAOPA […]

The builder of a replica of the Bugatti 100p racing plane was killed in the crash of the aircraft in Oklahoma on Saturday. NewsOn6 reported Scotty Wilson, of Tulsa, was flying the aircraft when it went down near Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base in west central Oklahoma. The aircraft was copied from a 1930s design by […]

A Newfoundland man faces multiple charges after an alleged joyride in a relative’s seaplane that ended with the aircraft upside down in a forest. The 32-year-old man reportedly helped himself to a relative’s Cessna 180 Thursday evening near the coastal town of Jeffrey’s in western Newfoundland. Taking a 59-year-old family member with him, the man […]

Airplane shipments are down for the first half of 2016, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association reported Friday. There were 970 units shipped for the first six months of the year, a 4.5 percent decline. Billings for new airplanes fell 11 percent to $9.3 billion, while rotorcraft billings saw a 32.5 percent drop over last year, […]

SocialFlight.com has added a new feature to its website and mobile app, Expert-Led Online Community Forums. The forums are available from the user’s menu and the event map on the website and are in the 5.1 release of the free app for iOS and Android devices. Topics include aircraft ownership, operation & maintenance, pilot training, […]

By law, the FAA has dropped the controversial “biographical profile” for prequalified (college program and military veteran) air traffic control trainee applicants and will hire 1,400 new trainees this year.Applications will only be taken from Aug. 8-15 at the U.S. government’s official jobs website but applicants can set up an online profile before that. In […]

Moon Express, a Cape Canaveral-based private company, announced this week it has received government approval to send an autonomous lander to the moon and plans to do so next fall. The multi-agency collaboration with the company includes NASA and the FAA. The approval puts Moon Express in the lead among other contenders for the $20 […]

One firefighter is dead and more than a dozen injured when an Emirates Boeing 777 burst into flames today after an emergency landing at Dubai’s airport. All 300 passengers and crew were able to evacuate safely, but flames consumed the airliner, Reuters reported. An estimated thirteen were taken to a hospital. A landing gear problem […]

Airbus engineers based in Silicon Valley are working to develop “an autonomous flying vehicle platform,” called Vahana, that could provide transport for both passengers and cargo, the company has announced. Flight tests of the first vehicle prototype are slated for the end of 2017. Ultimately, the system could operate similarly to car-sharing applications, with the […]

The numbers were up in all categories at AirVenture 2016 according to figures released by EAA Tuesday. The organization said about 563,000 people attended the weeklong show, up 1 percent from last year, despite several days of rain and storms. The weather was sunny and mild every day of the 2015 show. Chairman Jack Pelton […]