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Cessna has announced that it will complete certification of its new, higher-speed Citation X in the second quarter and deliver several production aircraft. The latest version of the Citation X – featuring a record Mach 0.935 top speed for a transport category aircraft in production – has wrapped up flight testing, so all that is […]

After initially refusing to release the preliminary report on the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight 370 (callsign MH370), the Malaysian government has made it available to the public. In five pages, the report outlines the facts known about the history of the flight, the disappearance and search. It recounts details of the departure from Kuala […]

Our weekly review of the news revealed that piston engine aircraft sales were up in the first quarter, the new Got Weather? campaign is kicking off, a company has been formed to produce a solar-electric light sport airplane and Kansas State Universitys aviation program has been the recipient of donated Frasca simulator. The General Aviation […]

In an unusual move, the National Transportation Safety Board today identified a single owner, HoTH Inc., of a number of Alaska air carriers operating under FAR Parts 135 and 121 and issued an urgent safety recommendation to the Federal Aviation Administration regarding the oversight of HoTH Inc.s operations. The urgent recommendation was issued as a […]

The CAFE Foundation held its annual symposium last week in Santa Rosa, Calif., bringing together a diverse group of researchers and visionaries from the aviation world to discuss their current work in fields such as lithium batteries, autonomous systems, noise reduction, and solar electric technologies. Among the long list of presenters, Prof. Qichao Hu of […]

As a result of the bankruptcy of Evergreen International Airlines, its McMinnville, Ore., six-building, on-airport campus is up for sale (PDF). The buildings on sale do not include those on the across-the-street campus that contains the Evergreen Museum and the gigantic Hughes Hercules flying boat. According to brokers Ted Nicholson and Katrin Gist, the six […]

The Breezy aircraft has been around for 50 years now, and EAA is marking the anniversary of this long-lasting homebuilt with a number of special activities at AirVenture in Oshkosh this July. The organization is inviting all Breezy owners and operators to bring their aircraft to the show, where they will gather in a special […]

A Grand Canyon site containing wreckage from a 1956 plane crash has been officially designated a National Historic Landmark, the National Park Service announced last week. A TWA Super Constellation L-1049 and a United Airlines DC-7 collided in uncongested airspace at 21,000 feet above the canyon, the Park Service said, killing all 128 people aboard […]

The NTSB is focusing on why a Piper Lance that hit a wind turbine blade in South Dakota on Sunday was flying lower than 300 feet AGL. Four young cattlemen returning home from a sale in Texas were killed when the aircraft hit the blade and crashed at the South Dakota Wind Energy Center, which […]

Video has emerged of the “aborted takeoff” of a King Air B200 that almost wiped out the chief executive office of an Indian state in late March. Jagannath Pahadia, governor of Haryana, a state in northern India, was among nine or 10 (reports differ) passengers and crew aboard the twin when it took off from […]