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A new TBM 900 (type is formally listed as a variant of the TBM 700) registered to a Rochester, N.Y., LLC crashed off the east coast of Jamaica Friday after the pilot reportedly became incapacitated on a planned flight from the aircraft’s home base to Naples, Florida. Rochester officials have identified the occupants of the […]

Nicolas Ivanoff, of France won the sixth stop on the Red Bull Air Race series Sunday at Texas Motor SpeedwayinFort Worth, Texas. Britain’s Nigel Lamb was second and Pete McLeod, of Canada, was third. To draw attention to the upcoming races, American pilots Kirby Chambliss and Michael Goulian were 10th and 11th respectively. The races […]

Continental Motors Services (CMS)-a division of Continental Motors Group-announcedThursday (PDF) that it has entered into an agreement with Aircraft Specialties Lubricants (ASL) to jointly evaluate the claimed benefits of ASLs CamGuard, an aviation oil additive. The evaluation program will be on engines overhauled or repaired by CMS (formerly Mattituck) to demonstrate merits of pairing the […]

On Wednesday, Cirrus Aircraft announced that it had made two internal executive promotions and appointed three people from outside the company to vice president slots. In the release, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Cirrus Dale Klapmeier said, Cirrus Aircraft has great depth in our leadership and today we have enhanced our capabilities and further […]

A new Airworthiness Directive (AD) will require initial and repetitive borescope inspections of some 300 PT6A engines and potentially cost operators as much as $18,106,200. Following reports of compressor turbine (CT) blade failures causing engine power loss, the FAA issued an AD Wednesday that requires replacement of blades that fail inspection with a newly developed […]

Boeing’s experimental Phantom Swift X-Plane program won $9.4 million from DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), Jane’s Defence Weekly has reported. The funding will enable Boeing to “continue to refine their design of the experimental aircraft, bringing it to a preliminary design review level,” the Defense Department said. The Phantom Swift was selected for […]

The FAA will allow the GA community an extra 30 days to comment on a proposed policy that spells out what is considered acceptable use of a hangar, EAA said late Tuesday afternoon. The request for comments was due to expire this Friday, and by Tuesday afternoon more than 1,100 comments had been logged. EAA […]

Amazon, Google and plenty of others are eager to use drones; the FAA is facing a deadline to allow them into the airspace; pilots are worried about how this will affect them — and amid all this worrying, NASA scientists are working on new technology that could solve the problem. The solution, says NASA’s Parimal […]

Continental Motors has announced a major fleet sale of its CD-135 diesel engine to a Spanish flight school. Aerodynamics Malaga S.L. will retrofit 16 Cessna 172s with the diesel and the first four are headed for the shop immediately. Two of the school’s mechanics have been certified to look after the engines after attending a […]

The FAA says it hasn’t yet dealt with more than 30 requests from companies and groups that want to fly small unmanned aerial systems for commercial purposes in the U.S. The companies, like Wilbur-Ellis Co., a California-based agribusiness corporation, have been filing Petitions for Exemption from a host of regulations that add up to the […]