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The alleged owner of three Boeing 747s that have sat on the ramp at Kuala Lumpur International Airport for six months says they’re the nucleus of a new charter freight business. Last week the airport operator ran photos of the tired-looking jumbos in newspapers saying it didn’t know who owned them and was about to […]

MITRE Corporation has put a $100,000 bounty on misbehaving drones through a contest aimed at bringing them down. The not-for-profit think tank, which does a lot of government-sponsored research, says it’s “working with multiple federal agencies” to come up with system(s) that can detect small drones that might pose a threat and then force them […]

A reproduction of the Spirit of St. Louis made its first test flights from Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in New York. The pilot and leader of the building team, Ken Cassens of Stone Ridge, New York, flew the copy of Charles Lindbergh’s Ryan NYP for the first time last weekend. He reported the airplane performed well […]

A medical helicopter crashed Thursday night in California’s Central Valley, killing all four people aboard.The SkyLife air ambulance was found in a field about halfway through a 50-mile route to a hospital, according to aCBS/Associated Press report. Apilot, nurse, paramedic and a patient were on board.The weather was reported to be rainy and foggy at […]

Airlines around the world are banning the high-tech toys known as hoverboards over concerns that their lithium-ion batteries could cause fires. American,Delta and United are among the airlines that announced Thursday they won’t allow the popular toys on board amid reports of their batteries overheating and starting fires in places like shopping malls, according to […]

Honda Aircraft’s light jet won certification from the FAA this week, making the formal announcement Wednesday at the company’s Greensboro, N.C., plant. Honda’s long-anticipated announcement comes after more than 18 years of development for the twin jet, which completed certification flight tests in November. The aircraft, known officially as the HA-420, is expected to develop […]

Third-class medical reform legislation is on its way to the Senate floor after gaining approval from the Commerce, Science and Transportation committee Wednesday. The committee had delayed its vote in November on the Pilot’s Bill of Rights 2 for lack of a quorum, and now its advocates hope for a Senate vote later this month. […]

The World Air Games are underway this week in Dubai, featuring competitions in aerobatics, skydiving, hot-air ballooning, aeromodelling and several other airborne sports. A new world record was set today by the Golden Knights U.S. Army parachute team for an eight-way formation. The team executed 33 formations in 50 seconds, breaking their own record set […]

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 […]