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The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Transportation Department has released three reports that are critical of how the FAA has managed pilot records and the costs and technology for air traffic control, and said it also plans to examine the FAA’s procedures with regard to drones. The OIG found the FAA has made […]

A few months have gone by since the B-29 Superfortress known as “Doc” rolled out of its hangar in Wichita, and the restoration team says the countdown is on for the first flight, which they hope will take place before the end of the year. Before that flight can take place, the FAA must issue […]

After several years of work by the Recreational Aviation Foundation, an old turf runway has been restored and reopened on North Fox Island, in Lake Michigan. The 3,000-foot runway has displaced thresholds on both ends, and is surrounded by trees up to about 60 feet high. The island, which comprises about 820 acres, is owned […]

Five-year-old Hudson Hughes was the classic kid at the airport fence in July when a Southwest Airlines captain made his effort worthwhile. The young airplane nut was with his grandfather in the ramp viewing area at Albuquerque’s Sunport International Airport and waving enthusiastically at every passing plane. Southwest Capt. Mike Hickey noticed the flurry of […]

A midair collision at an airshow in Switzerland Sunday killed one of the pilots involved. According to initial news reports two members of the three-ship Formation Grasshoppers team touched during a maneuver and both aircraft crashed. One pilot was reportedly able to parachute from his crippled aircraft. The Grasshoppers fly Ikarus C42 aircraft and do […]

At least 11 people are feared dead a Hawker Hunter plowed into multiple cars, including a wedding limousine, on a road adjacent to an airport hosting an airshow in the U.K. Saturday. The pilot, identified as Andy Hill, a British Airways pilot and former RAF Harrier pilot, survived and is in the hospital in serious […]

Government agencies and law enforcement have been quietly testing ways to disable rogue unmanned aerial systems, Reuters reported this week. In efforts to address security concerns that come with commercially available unmanned aircraft, authorities are developing technology to track and disable them. According to Reuters, New York’s police department tested a system over the winter […]

A short circuit was the probable cause of the fire that started in a Boeing 787 parked at London’s Heathrow Airport in July 2013, U.K. investigators said this week. Two exposed wires in the aircraft’s lithium battery-powered ELT touched, starting the fire and causing substantial damage to the 787, the Air Accidents Investigations Branch said […]

A wildfire in Washington state thought to have been started by the crash of a Cessna 182 last week was likely due to other causes, officials said. The Associated Press reported this week that fire investigators are still searching for the cause but no longer believe the blaze was ignited by the crash, which occurred […]

The pilot of the twin-engine Swearingen Merlin III that crashed in April in British Columbia had a blood-alcohol level of 0.24 percent, three times the legal driving limit, a report from the B.C. Coroners Service said. Robert Brandt, 34, and first officer Kevin Wang, 32, died in the crash. Wang did not have drugs or […]