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New rules recently have addressed the safety of shipping lithium batteries in air cargo, but a story in Monday’s Bloomberg News raised questions about their use in electronic devices in the cockpit of passenger airplanes. “Because many airlines are replacing paper charts with laptops and tablet computers, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration conducted tests on […]

A Sepahan Air Iran-140 (the Iranian-build version of the An-140) crashed shortly after takeoff from Mehrabad Airport Sunday killing at least 39 of the 48 people on board. The nine injured were taken to hospital with various injuries. The Tehran Times reported that an engine failure was being cited as a contributing factor. The accident […]

Police in Los Angeles have clipped the wings of a “serial stowaway” who managed to sneak onto a flight from San Jose to LAX last week. Marilyn Hartman was spotted hanging around LAX’s Terminal 7 on Thursday and that was enough take her to jail. A few days earlier she’d pleaded no contest to a […]

The Malaysian government is taking over Malaysian Airlines to prevent the flag carrier from going under. After suffering the loss of two Boeing 777s and more than 600 passengers and crew in six months in the most bizarre circumstances imaginable, the airline was most likely headed for bankruptcy, but Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said […]

No longer is there an airworthy Avro Lancaster in the Americas. On Friday morning, the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum’s MK. X Lancaster landed in England, ending what is being described as an epic adventure across the Atlantic Ocean that began Monday. Arrival festivities at Royal Air Force Coningsby airport were slightly dampened by soggy weather […]

The Federal Aviation Administration today issued a new NOTAM restricting U.S. operators from flying in the airspace above Iraq due to what it described as “the hazardous situation created by the armed conflict.” The new NOTAM supersedes a previous one that prohibited U.S. operators from flying below 20,000 feet over Iraq. The NOTAM states that […]

EAA says it will fight to have all active homebuilding considered an “aeronautical use” at airports receiving FAA grants after reviewing a proposed policy issued by the agency a couple of weeks ago. EAA says it also heard from members apparently confused by the document because of”faulty information from inaccurate reports and chatter.”While EAA continues […]

Britain’s Paul Bonhomme and Nigel Lamb will try to narrow the gap with Red Bull Air Race World Championship leader Hannes Arch of Austria at the first race in Britain since 2008. What is generally accepted as the world’s third-fastest motorsport (after the U.S. National Air Races and top fuel drag racing) makes its returnto […]

AVweb’s weekly review of what’s happening in aviation found everything from a flight program for young cancer survivors through new Hartzell props for the world’s fastest turboprop to the newest recipient of the EAA’s August Raspet Award and an NTSB training program in emergency communications. Summit Aviation and Eagle Mount announced a partnership to bring […]

While most of the world was concentrating on AirVenture, things were also happening in Wichita where two of Cessna‘s business jet programs celebrated developmental first flights. On July 28, the first production Citation CJ3+ made its maiden flight. Test pilot Mark Tuttle reported that all systems performed as expected during the 73-minute mission. The Williams […]