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LightHawk, a nonprofit group that promotes the use of airplanes for conservation, has named Terri Watson as its new executive director. Watson had been a volunteer pilot for the group, starting in 1997, and previously served on the board. She also was executive director from 2000 to 2003. Watson was working for a nonprofit parks […]

The first flight of the KC-46 next-generation tanker took place on Friday and, as expected for a mature design like the Boeing 767, it did fine on its four-hour shakedown. Now that Boeing has shown the airplane can fly, it’s getting ready for the so-called “Milestone C” testing that will show whether the plane can […]

The U.K.’s Paul Bonhomme raced to his fourth Red Bull Air Race victory of the season with a narrow victory over Australia’s Matt Hall in the first North American stop of the year. Japan’s Yoshi Muroya took third place in the blistering heat at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. “It was really hard […]

One of the last flying C-46 Commandos was likely written off in an off-airport landing in Canada’s Northwest Territories on Friday. A Buffalo Airways Commando suffered engine trouble on a cargo flight from Yellowknife to Norman Wells. The crew tried to divert to Deline, NWT, but apparently didn’t make the airport. The aircraft was belly […]

Legislation designed to waive the third-class medical for private pilots flying light aircraft has turned into a plan to require one-time medicals for new pilots or those who haven’t had one for more than 10 years, according to remarks made Thursday on the Senate floor by Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. Inhofe, who introduced the Pilot’s […]

The Red Bull Air Race World Championship pilots will finish up their season with two stops in the U.S., starting with races in Dallas-Fort Worth this weekend, at the Texas Motor Speedway. The air races feature 14 world-class aerobatic pilots competing in a race that combines speed, precision and skill. Pilots fly at speeds up […]

Flytenow, which sued the FAA after being forced to shut down its ride-sharing website, will be in federal court Friday morning to make oral arguments, lawyers for the business announced this week. Flytenow suspended operations in August 2014 when the FAA declared it illegal for private pilots to communicate on the Internet about sharing seats […]

A vehicle dashcam in Irvine, California, captured a Piper Cherokee rolling down a city street after making a forced landing last week. The unidentified vehicle was sitting at a rush-hour red light when motorists saw the airplane speed by them through the intersection, luckily with a green light that helped clear the way. A male […]

The Perlan 2 glider made its first test flight Wednesday above Redmond Municipal Airport in Oregon, completing another step in the project team’s goal to set a new altitude record next year. Pilots Jim Payne and Morgan Sandercock flew the glider to 5,000 feet above the field during the first of what will be a […]

Diamond Aircraft, as AVwebreported last week, has been working with the University of Stuttgart to develop an auto-land system for the DA42, and on Monday, they posted a video of one of the test landings. The system is highly redundant, and requires no ground support, the test engineers said. They also added that they plan […]