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Lee Aerospace has been reacquired by its founder, Jim Lee, after 14 years as part of the Triumph Group Inc. The Wichita, Kan.-based aircraft window, sheet metal and composite structure operation will again be known as Lee Aerospace Inc. Jim Lee projects a solid 2014 and announced the shipment of the first of its large […]

It’s not the same Eastern Air Lines of old, but a new company that acquired the brand in 2009 has moved into office space at Miami International Airport. The new Eastern also said this week it has filed an application with the U.S. Transportation Department to start operations, and will soon start working on Part […]

FAA Administrator Michael Huerta met with GA leaders on Monday and urged them to tell their members to avoid weather traps in the coming flying season. Huerta told the leaders at the General Aviation Safety Summit that the GA accident rate has flattened over the last six years and last year there were 259 fatal […]

Boeing is building airliners as fast as it can and the result is a modest increase in the number it was able to deliver in the last quarter of 2013. The company cranked out 172 of its 737s, 777s and 787s in those three months, up from 165 the previous quarter thanks to increased production […]

Beechcraft has signed an agreement with the Royal New Zealand Air Force to provide 11 T-6C Texan II turboprop military training aircraft, plus spare parts, two simulators, training, logistics, and maintenance support, the company announced this week. “As the Royal New Zealand Air Force began the process of modernizing its pilot training capabilities, we were […]

The FAA on Monday announced new procedures that will make it easier for operators to get approval to operate in RVSM airspace. “The new policy establishes a more flexible and efficient process,” said FAA Administrator Michael Huerta. NBAA said it has been lobbying for the changes for several years. “Earlier guidance dictated that an inspection […]

AVwebreaders, according to a recent research project, differ from the general public when it comes to their willingness to fly aboard an autonomous airliner with no pilot in the cockpit. Last October, Matt Vance, a researcher with theSt. Louis University Center for Aviation Science, devised a survey to explore how people would react to flying […]

In scheduling seven new fly-in events around the country for this year, AOPA ran into a conflict with members’ religious duties, an oversight that AOPA President Mark Baker apologized for on Monday. “We know that our choice of Oct. 4 [for the Frederick, Md., Homecoming fly-in] is profoundly disappointing to our Jewish members, and we […]

The Air Line Pilots Association will pay $53 million to settle a lawsuit in which former TWA pilots alleged the union failed to properly defend their seniority rights. The pilots were working for TWA when it was bought out of bankruptcy by American Airlines. Many of the TWA pilots were put on the bottom of […]

An Australian teen who had a little supervised stick time was able to maintain control of a Cherokee 180 after the pilot lost consciousness on Saturday. About 45 minutes later the pilot, 61-year-old Derek Neville, came to and 19-year-old Troy Jenkins helped to land the aircraft safely back at Forbes Airport in New South Wales. […]