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Two people were killed in the crash of a rare two-seat P-51D at Durango La Plata Airport in Colorado early Friday. Aircraft owner John Earley was reportedly taking flying instruction from Michael Schlarb when the plane went down shortly after takeoff just outside the airport fence. Earley, the owner of a Durango-area pipeline company, bought […]

A train carrying Boeing aircraft fuselages and parts from Wichita to Boeing assembly plants in Washington State derailed in Montana late Thursday, dumping its expensive cargo in the Clark Fork River. According to King 5 News, the train was carrying six 737 fuselages and subassemblies for 777 and 747 aircraft. Photos credited to Kyle Massick […]

Eleven of 12 people aboard a Piper Navajo jump plane were killed when the aircraft went down shortly after takeoff from Rudniki airfield near Czestochowa, Poland on Saturday. Czestochowa is about 120 miles southwest of Warsaw. One man in his 40s was taken to hospital in serious condition. Details of the crash were scarce in […]

Currently on display at Graceland, Elvis Presleys preserved Lockheed JetStar 6 and Convair 880-one of only three known to exist in the world-may have stepped on someones blue suede shoes as theyre being given the boot. According to The Associated Press, Elvis Presley Enterprises, which operates the Graceland tourist attraction, has written to the owner […]

Commercial drones expected to fly U.S. skies in coming years, delivering pizza or monitoring power lines, would be dangerously vulnerable to hackers without a variety of potentially costly countermeasures to their GPS navigation systems, results of a federal study indicate. According to an exclusive report in the Christian Science Monitor, a serious, but not well […]

The U.S. military said it had grounded the entire fleet of 97 Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets until completion of additional inspections of the warplane’s single engine, built by Pratt & Whitney, according to a report by Reuters. The Pentagon’s F-35 program office, Air Force and Navy issued directives on Thursday ordering the suspension of […]

Actor Harrison Ford, other Santa Monica Airport tenants, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and the National Business Aviation Association have filed a complaint with the FAA challenging the city of Santa Monicas position that the airport can be shut down in July 2015. The tenants say that in August 2003, $240,600 was added to […]

AVwebs weekly search of whats new in aviation revealed Just Aircraft has scheduled its Just Plane Fun Days, a Women Can Fly event was held in Charlottesville, SocialFlight has released an upgrade to help pilots more easily find aviation events and points of interest near airports, and the iPad Takes Flight! EPB Challenge has added […]

The National Transportation Safety Board Wednesday denied a petitionfor reconsideration of its findings in the investigation of the July 17, 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800. The aircraft exploded while on climbout from JFK, taking the lives of the 230 passengers and crew. The four-year investigation by the NTSB was one of the largest transportation […]

This is the last month in which a pilot can take the ATP written (knowledge) examination before a new, onerous and expensive prerequisite requirement takes effect. As of Aug. 1 of this year, FAR 61.153(e) requires that anyone seeking to just take the written-not the checkride-must have completed an FAA-approved airline transport pilot certification training […]