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Nextant Aerospace has completed the first test flight of its remanufactured G90XT design, the company recently announced. The project, which launched about a year ago, matches a refurbished King Air C90A with the new H75 engine by GE. The airplane also features a Garmin G1000 cockpit, electronic engine controls, new dual-zone air conditioning and many […]

For the next while, FAA inspectors will have to line up and wait like the rest of us if they want to get to a secure area of the airport. The move comes after an unidentified inspector used his secure area identification area badge to bypass security at Atlanta Airport before boarding a flight for […]

Air India says it has suspended a pilot and is investigating further after the pilot allegedly brawled with a mechanic in the cockpit of a Boeing 787 at the airport in Chennai, India, on Saturday. According to various media reports, the pilot was apparently upset by the time it was taking to fix a fault […]

Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has issued a final rulethat will require the full replacement and re-rigging of primary flight control cable system assemblies in most aircraft in Australia by January of 2018. The rule does not apply to secondary control system cables. In the last seven years, there have been 48 reported incidents […]

The Air Force is moving ahead with plans to triple the size of the Powder River MOAs over the northern Plains.In a statementissued Friday, the Air Force said the expansion would allow training flights for the B-1 Lancer and B-52 Stratofortress to operate closer to the bases at Ellsworth in South Dakota and Minot in […]

Sheriff’s deputies have identified two people who died in the crash of an Aero Adventure amphibious LSA near the main runway at Sebring Regional Airport in Florida, site of the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo. Pilot Dennis Day, of Groveland, Florida, and Jason Spinks, 44, of Orlando, were killed when the aircraft crashed nose-first just off […]

The FAA is withdrawing a rule that would have allowed greater use of simulators for instrument training because two people thought it was a bad idea. The agency issued a final rule Dec. 3 that allowed up to 20 hours (up from 10) on an approved training device toward an instrument rating. It also got […]

AOPA President Mark Baker has pointedly urged Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx for action on proposed third-class medical reform. In what AOPA describes as a “strongly-worded letter,” Baker says the delay in acting on the three-year-old proposal is “incomprehensible” to most of its members. “On behalf of our members and the aviation community we must ask, […]

Bombardier has “paused” development of its mostly composite Learjet 85 business jet saying the market is too soft both for that product and for light-to-midsize jets. The suspension will result in the layoff of a total of 1,000 workers at production facilities in Wichita and Queretaro, Mexico. About 620 of the layoffs will be in […]

AOPA’s Air Safety Institute has produced a new video and a printed guide to help educate pilots and passengers about the skills they need to survive a forced landing in an aircraft. “The safest pilot is one who prepares for any eventuality,” said George Perry, senior vice president at ASI. “That includes preparing for an […]