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One person is dead and five have been injured after a single-engine aircraft (possibly a Lancair) hit a parked car during what appears to be an emergency landing on a freeway north of San Diego about 9:15 a.m. Saturday. The aircraft rear-ended the car, which was parked on the shoulder of the highway. A passenger […]

New FAA rules affecting how student pilots are certified took effect today. The new rules require all applicants to be vetted through the FAA’s Airmen Certification Branch, a process the FAA says will take about three weeks. Currently, the FAA completes the same vetting process, but not until after a student certificate has been issued, […]

Rowlett, Texas-based ADS-B manufacturer NavWorx announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement with Garmin, enabling an approved 2020 ADS-B equipage mandate interface between the budget-priced NavWorx receiver and Garmin panel navigators. The new interface is centered around the NavWorx ADS600-B ADS-B receiver, a $1999 remote 978 UAT solution that requires an external GPS […]

Two people are dead after a Jeep Grand Cherokee collided with an F/A-18E Super Hornet in California. The female passenger in the Jeep died at the scene and the male driver died later in the hospital after the SUV ran into the horizontal stabilizer of the fighter on the ramp at Lemore Naval Air Station […]

Icon has recently started to ask buyers with deposits on the A5 light sport aircraft to sign a sales contract before taking delivery of their airplanes, and the length of that contract — 41 pages (PDF) — is unusual for general aviation, as are a number of Icon’s stipulations. The contract requires that every pilot […]

Lockheed Martin’s hybrid airship, expected to be FAA-certified in 2018, will be used to carry cargo for energy company operations around the world under a $480 million deal with British company Straightline Aviation Ltd. According to a Wall Street Journal report this week, Straightline plans to buy 12 of the 20-ton airships and market them […]

The co-pilot of the EgyptAir Airbus that was hijacked on Tuesday was the last person to remain on board the A320 with the passenger who pretended to have an explosive belt and forced the crew to land in Cyprus. According to the account Hamad el Kaddah gave Newsweek, during the flight from Alexandria bound for […]

Garmin continues to expand its line of avionics for experimental and light sport aircraft with the introduction of two new products this week, the G5 gyro and a pair of low-cost audio panels. Both products are aimed at the experimental and LSA segments. The G5 isa 3 1/8-inch self-contained electronic gyro for use as a […]

Glasair Aviation’s Merlin LSA received FAA light-sport certification this week, marking the company’s first foray into factory-built aircraft as it continues to produce its series of kitplanes. Glasair announced on Wednesday it anticipates sales to personal owners as well as flight schools. The high-wing Merlin, which was introduced nearly two years ago at Sun ‘n […]

Boeing will cut at least 4,000 jobs this year, and maybe as many as 8,000, the Seattle Times reported this week. The first 4,000 jobs are expected to be eliminated by June. Boeing officials told the Times the initial job cuts would include “hundreds of executives and managers” as well as reductions due to attrition. […]