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Four people have been confirmed killed after the midair collision of a Sabreliner business jet and a Cessna 172 near San Diego on Sunday. The FAA told local media both aircraft were trying to land at Brown Field Municipal Airport, about a mile north of the Mexican border. The wreckage came down in an open […]

All 54 people aboard an Indonesian Trigana Air Service ATR42 are presumed dead after the aircraft crashed into a mountainside in the province of Papua on Sunday. The aircraft took off from Jaypura on a 42-minute flight to Oksibil and crashed 33 minutes into the flight.”Residents provided information that the aircraft crashed into Tangok mountain,” […]

Officials have called off the search for a California man now presumed lost after he apparently lost consciousness in his Lancair Evolution and crashed in the Pacific, about 460 miles west of San Francisco. Troy Johnson, 39, was on a flight from Phoenix to Hesperia, California, with what might have been a fuel stop in […]

Air traffic on the Eastern Seaboard was getting back to normal Saturday evening after a major air traffic control system failure earlier in the day. The travel plans of thousands of people were upset when the flightplan processing computers went down at Washington Center around midday. The FAA had the system back about 4:15 p.m. […]

Solar Flight of California has completed a milestone for its third airplane, the Sunseeker Duo, which flew across the Alps and back this month on a tour to demonstrate the capabilities of the two-seat aircraft. Company founders Eric and Irena Raymond flew the Duo, repeating the 2009 Alps crossing of their second plane, Sunseeker II. […]

A Cessna 182 that crashed in Washington state Thursday killed two people on board and sparked a wildfire that forced hundreds of residents to evacuate. Firefighters responding to the wildfire discovered the wreckage with a body inside, and NTSB investigators called to the scene found a second body Friday, The Associated Press reported. Local law […]

Pilot reportsof unmanned aerial systems have topped 650 so far this year – well over the 238 reported for all of 2014, the FAA said this week. The agency said there was a big jump in sightings this summer, with 138 pilot reports in June and 137 in July. Meanwhile, there were just 52 reports […]

Organizing an airshow is always a big job, but the folks working to put on the next Catalina Air Show, set for October 2016, face some extra challenges. The show is held on a small resort island, 26 miles off the coast of southern California, meaning any support gear that can’t be flown over has […]

Violent storms in Chandler, Arizona, late Tuesday flipped over airplanes at the Chandler Municipal Airport, scattering them about the field and damaging an estimated 30 aircraft in all. Photos and video at KCHD showed GA airplanes, mostly light singles recognizable by their wings and tails, sitting askew or lying belly-up around the tiedown area. Chandler […]

Ettore Bugatti’s 100P racing plane has been called “the most beautiful design that never flew,” but that might be changing soon, as a team that’s been working for years on a replica has started taxi tests. Former Air Force pilot Scott Wilson and his team, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, got some momentum on the project […]