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All three on board walked away with minor injuries after two aircraft — an ultralight and a glider — collided in midair on Sunday afternoon near Rheinland-Pfalz airfield in Winningen, Germany. The two aircraft met at roughly right angles and became wedged together, and the ultralight pilot was able to deploy a ballistic chute that […]

While the FAA’s expected revisions to Part 23 have raised hopes in the general aviation community that new aircraft will be certified at twice the speed and half the cost, two manufacturers with new airplanes in the pipeline told AVweb this week that even if those regulations are delayed beyond the mandated December 2015 deadline, […]

Tuesday, the NTSB released a report on pilot drug use that, based on post-crash toxicology tests on pilots killed in aircraft accidents from 1990 through 2012, concluded drug use of all types, particularly over-the-counter (OTC) drugs, is up among pilots and that the risk of pilot impairment is on the rise. However, the study did […]

AVweb has confirmed that Kevin Gould is no longer the president of BendixKing. Staff members were told Gould had “moved on to other opportunities” at a meeting Monday, according to an employee AVweb spoke with briefly who was at the meeting. Exact circumstances of Gould’s departure could not be confirmed by our deadline on Tuesday. […]

UPS Flight 1354 crashed at the Birmingham, Alabama, airport in August 2013 because the crew continued an unstabilized approach, the NTSB said on Tuesday. “The crew failed to monitor the altitude and inadvertently descended below the minimum descent altitude when the runway was not yet in sight,” the NTSB said in a statement. Factors contributing […]

Veteran pilot Lee Behel was killed in a crash at Reno on Monday afternoon during a qualifying heat for the National Championship Air Races. Behel, 64, from San Jose, California, was flying an experimental GP-5 racing airplane. “This was a single-plane incident and no other pilots or spectators were injured,” the race organizers said in […]

Declaring its seriousness to expand in the global aerospace market, Embraer on Monday cut the ribbon on its new engineering and technology center in Melbourne, Florida. The center will eventually employ about 200 people, Embraer officials said, and will carry on engineering projects across all three markets Embraer is active in. The center also represents […]

Taking another step forward in the ongoing effortto find a replacement for 100LL, the FAA said on Monday it has selected four unleaded fuels that will undergo testing. The FAA has chosen two formulas from Swift Fuels, one from Shell, and one from Total. The fuels will enter a yearlong Phase 1 test regime starting […]

Broken Dreams: The Boeing 787, a documentary by the Al Jazeera investigative unit, alleges that workers in the company’s South Carolina plant “have little faith in the Dreamliner.” Unidentified workers allege that the schedule takes precedence over safety and quality; some say they believe other workers are taking drugs while at work, and several say […]

Less than six months after its first flight, Textron Aviation’s Cessna Citation CJ3+ has been certified by the FAA. The FAA stamped the paperwork on Thursday (Sept. 4, 2014) for the aircraft, a modern makeover of the original, which was launched in 2003. The biggest change is the Garmin G3000 avionics suite, which includes the […]