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With FAA reauthorization in play, and a new Republican Congress in Washington, flight-safety advocates met on Monday in Buffalo, N.Y., to express concern that the new rules for airline pilots enacted last year might be rolled back. Chesley Sullenberger, best known as captain of the “Miracle on the Hudson” flight, and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., […]

The budget proposed by the Obama administration this week omits an earlier plan to impose per-flight user fees on general aviation, the National Air Transportation Association said on Monday. However, NATA protested a provision that would change the way business aircraft purchases are taxed. The change “adversely impacts aviation businesses that are known for creating […]

Sporty’s grabbed attention late last year when they offered training at $99 an hour in refurbished Cessna 172s at their flight school in Batavia, Ohio, and now the company is taking orders for fully refurbed airplanes at a price of $132,900. “After December’s announcement of the 172LITE, my inbox and voicemail were flooded with inquiries […]

Taking the idea behind EAA’s Young Eagles program to a new audience, a flight school in California plans to offer free airplane flights to older people this weekend. “San Carlos Flight Center created the Silver Eagles program as a way for club members to pay tribute to elder aviators, to honor fellow pilots who are […]

The company that makes the drone that ended up on the White House lawn last week says it’s programming its products to be unflyable within a 15.5 mile radius of downtown Washington, D.C.”We are updating the no fly zones to include the D.C. metropolitan area in accordance with FAA guidelines,” said Michael Perry, spokesman DJI, […]

The Two Eagles balloon pilots have landed safely in the ocean about four miles off the Baja coast near La Poza Grande, their ground crew reported Saturday morning. “The pilots made a controlled descent to a gentle water landing,” the team wrote in an update. “The balloon is stable and still inflated and the pilots […]

A jammed door in a Delta Air Lines jet left the captain locked out of the cockpit during a flight from Minneapolis to Las Vegas Thursday, leaving the first officer to complete the flight in the right seat.Delta 1651 otherwise landed uneventfully and on time at McCarran International Airport. However, since the first officer notified […]

Textron Aviation saw business jet deliveries rise in 2014 despite a lower fourth quarter, The Wichita Eagle reported this week. The owner of Cessna and Beechcraft said it delivered 159 jets last year, a 12 percent increase. Fifty-fivewere delivered in the fourth quarter of 2014, down from 62 in the same quarter a year ago.The […]

Cessna Aircraft Company rolled out the first production Citation Latitude at its Wichita, Kansas, manufacturing facility on Thursday, the latest step in the jet’s type certification process. The Latitude will seat nine and feature the widest fuselage of the Citation series. It will also have a new environmental system, Garmin G5000 avionics, two Pratt & […]

The Two Eagles balloon crew that launched last week in Japan has now achieved one of its goals — the flight on Thursday passed 5,260 miles, the current world record for distance in a gas balloon. Troy Bradley and Leonid Tiukhtyaev are also on track to beat the record for time aloft, just over 137 […]