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Veteran airshow performer Jim “Fang” Maroney died Sunday when his Super Chipmunk show plane crashed in Monroe County in Tennessee. Maroney was on his way from Illinois to the Beach Balloon and Sky Fest in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., when the aircraft went down. Circumstances of the crash are not clear but the aircraft hit […]

The FAA is proposing banning passengers from flights in electric-powered aircraft and ready-to-fly light sport aircraft (SLSA) that have been converted to experimental light sport (ELSA) aircraft and stopping the aircraft from flying over built-up areas or at night. The LSA industry is responding with a call for those who might be affected to comment […]

Although it has kept its development out of the public eye, Lycoming appears to be much further along in aircraft diesel engine development than many in the industry realize. Using the booming unmanned aircraft sector as a launching pad, Lycoming told us that it has leveraged automotive technology to develop whats essentially a diesel near-equivalent […]

Cirrus has been flying a Vision jet since 2008, but the latest version, which flew for the first time on Monday afternoon, is the first of three conforming flight-test aircraft for the final production jet, which is expected to start deliveries late next year. Cirrus Aircraft’s chief test pilot Mike Stevens flew the jet for […]

The race is now on to find the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 after an analysis of satellite data determined the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 “ended in the southern Indian Ocean,” Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Monday. Bad weather is hampering the search for the wreckage […]

A couple of off-airport accidents in Florida killed two people and injured three others. In the latest mishap, Jeffrey Bronken, the pilot of a Piper Archer, was killed after ending up on a street in Clearwater, Fla., on Saturday morning. Two teenage girls, Katherine Bronken and Keyana Linbo, were injured. All were from the Chicago […]

After an open records request by NBC5 in Dallas, the FAA Friday released recordings of the radio exchange after a Southwest Airlines 737 landed at the wrong Missouri airport last Jan. 12. As might be expected there was initial confusion on both ends of the conversation between a pilot sitting near the end of a […]

The search is on for the pilot and four passengers aboard a Socata TBM 700 that crashed in a southern Colorado reservoir in front of a wedding party Saturday. The TBM was on its way from Bartlesville, Okla., to Montrose, Colo., and crashed in the Ridgway Reservoir in 60-90 feet of water. No names have […]

After months of negotiations and a legal challenge in the courts, EAA said this week it has agreed to pay the FAA’s expenses to send controllers to AirVenture through 2022. “This ends the uncertainty that began with the FAA’s sudden assessment of ATC fees for the 2013 event and the potential that air traffic support […]

Both houses of the Wisconsin Legislature have passed legislation intended to save aircraft owners and operators money on maintenance and repairs while keeping aviation jobs in the state. The bill has gone to the governor for his signature; he is expected to sign. The legislation creates a state sales tax exemption for all parts and […]