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Registration is now open for Build A Plane’s 2016 design competition, the nonprofit group announced this week. The program, which is co-sponsored by GAMA, aims to promote science, technology, engineering and math education in U.S. high schools. In its first three years, the program has reached more than 150 schools in 38 states and Washington, […]

Manufacturers of general aviation aircraft — and the folks who buy those aircraft — have been waiting for a few years for the FAA to move forward with a rewrite of the Part 23 rules that govern certification — and now advocates are pressing for an NPRM to be ready by the end of this […]

South African authorities are investigating what appears to be the first fatal crash of an Eclipse light jet. The South African air force was dispatched after radio contact was lost with the EA500 on a flight from Johannesburg to Cape Town. It was being tracked at about 35,000 feet when communication ended. A Gripen fighter […]

Mike Mangold, who flew in the Red Bull Air Races from 2004 till 2010, died Sunday in a plane crash in California. Mangold, age 60, was flying an L-39 aerobatic jet from the Apple Valley Airport. The jet reportedly crashed shortly after takeoff, exploded on impact and burned. A second person in the airplane, who […]

Artists at Disney Animation have created unique nose art for a B-17 called Swamp Ghost, which was lost on a mission in the Pacific during World War II. In what may be the first collaboration by Disney since the end of the war, the studio created art that depicts a Donald Duck character emerging from […]

A jet carrying actor and pilot Morgan Freeman made an emergency landing in Mississippi Saturday after blowing a tire during takeoff. Neither Freeman nor his pilot were injured when the SJ30 SyberJet landed at the Tunica airport and ran off the runway, according to an Associated Press report. The two men were the only ones […]

Images of a Catalina PBY-5 that sank during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 74 years ago this week can now be viewed online after a successful archaeological survey of the wreckage. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and the University of Hawaii partnered for the expedition over the summer […]

At least two pilots in the last week have lodged complaints about laser light in the cockpit that was traced back to a Christmas light display, raising concerns about the popular displays, according to media reports. Authorities found the source of laser light that affected a mail pilot near Mason County Airport in western Michigan […]

The Santa Monica Airport, which has become a poster case for protecting general aviation airports, must stay open until at least 2023, the FAA said on Friday. The historic airport, which has been active since 1917, supports about 300 operations a day and is popular with the private-jet set. It’s less popular with local residents […]

Pieces of the F-1 rocket engines that launched the Apollo 12 mission 46 years ago are at The Museum of Flight in Seattle after undergoing a 2 1/2-year restoration. An injector plate was among the pieces unveiled by entrepreneur Jeff Bezos in November as part of the future exhibit, which will include Apollo mission artifacts […]