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An Oklahoma Air National Guard student pilot managed to bring an F-16 safely back to his base missing half of the right wing after a midair collision with his instructor over Kansas last October. The Air Force released photos of the aftermath of the encounter in which the unnamed student’s outboard missile severed his instructor’s […]

The FAA’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the use of small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) is now on the Federal Register, which means comments are now open. Comments on the long and complex rule are being accepted until April 24. The rule was posted to the Federal Register late Friday and is officially published as […]

Aviation authorities in New Zealand and Australia have grounded a significant number of Robinson R-44 helicopters in response to a fatal crash in New Zealand last week. The affected aircraft have main rotor blades with the part number CO16-7. The groundings affect 80 aircraft (of 184) in New Zealand and an unknown number of the […]

The Air Force on Friday released its investigation (PDF) of a midair collision of two F-16s in Kansas last fall, citing a student pilot’s loss of visual contact and an instructor’s misperception of a turning maneuver. The two F-16Cs, from the Tulsa Air National Guard Base, were flying a training exercise with a third fighter […]

The oldest airport in Lithuania celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. To mark the milestone, S. Darius and S. Girenas Airfield produced a video sharing what pilots around the world have in common — from watching airplanes fly overhead as a child to that first solo. The 17-minute video, “Stories of Aviation,” was produced with […]

A Canadian pilot begged an Ohio court to give him more jail time rather than take away his beloved Cessna 172 but the presiding judge turned the aircraft over to the federal government and set 26-year-old Ryan Brandt, of North Bay, Ontario, free. Brandt had earlier pleaded guilty to trying to smuggle a Canadian woman […]

Sonex Aircraft has shipped its first SubSonex JSX-2 personal jet kit, launching the initial set of deliveries from the microjet’s first production run as a quick-build kit. The SubSonex’s arrival to Redge Greenberg of Durango, Colorado, “marks the conclusion of an intense six-month effortto bring JSX-2 from prototype aircraft to a fully-developed quick-build kit product,” […]

Heli-Expo, the annual helicopter industry event organized by the Helicopter Association International, will be held in Orlando, Florida, March 2 to 5. The show will host more than 725 exhibitors, and pre-registration is on track to meet or exceed last year’s visitor numbers of about 20,000, HAI spokesman Chris Dancy told AVweb this week. Besides […]

EAA has created a new program for college students who want to participate in AirVenture 2015 as volunteers. EAA is working with aviation programs at Purdue University, University of North Dakota, Ohio State University and elsewhere to bring groups of students to the show, but volunteers are welcome from all schools. Students who log at […]

The first IMC Club will open in Australia in April with an inaugural meeting at a historic airport in Narromine, about 200 miles west of Sydney. The group, which features “hangar talk” get togethers where active IFR pilots swap stories that others can learn from, has grown from a meeting of four pilots in 2011 […]