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At its Vero Beach factory headquarters Saturday, Piper celebrated its 75th anniversary as an airplane company, hosting many of the very same vintage aircraft that Piper built to establish its legacy. More than 200 people attended the event and were given factory tours, presentations of the company’s history and a look at some of Piper’s […]

Cessna has issued a Mandatory Service Bulletin (PDF) to beef up the wing structure of the first 228 Skycatchers delivered. The MSB, issued in early September, requires the addition of a rib and other reinforcement at the wing attach points. The MSB was issued after Cessna found cracks in the attach point of its cyclic […]

A Nigerian telecom company has caught the attention of the country with a promotion that has a general aviation theme. MTN will announce the winner of a new Cessna 182T on Tuesday in its Ultimate Wonder contest for customers who sign contracts with the cellphone carrier. However, it’s not likely the prize will ever land […]

The NTSB now has access to safety data gathered by the FAA, airlines and pilots thanks to an agreement signed last week. The deal will allow the NTSB to ask for information gleaned from anonymous reports gathered by the Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS) program. “I am grateful to the FAA, industry and […]

The NTSB says (PDF) it’s likely a five-year-old girl’s restlessness started the chain of events that led to the crash of a helicopter that killed her and four others on Valentine’s Day in 2010. Although there is no direct evidence to support the hypothesis, the board says simulator scenarios and a biomechanical study point to […]

Aircraft maintenance engineers meeting at an annual congress held by Aircraft Engineers International (AEI) this year at Malta were told “a staggering amount of evidence” shows safety lapses by airlines and regulators. The group says an ICAO safety audit results show carriers’ average rate of compliance with safety regulations is “around 60 percent.” At the […]

AOPA’s FlyQ Electronic Flight Bag app for iPad launches today, according to AOPA, putting flight planning tools into the hands of pilots and, according to some industry players, turning the organization from “pilot advocacy group” to “competitor.” The debut of the subscription-based app packages airport directory information, weather, moving maps, approach plates, synthetic vision, smart […]

Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. Video has emerged of the July 17 event that resulted in a CRJ200 taxiing at high speed into a terminal building at St. George Municipal Airport, […]

A letter sent by Hawker Beechcraft to its employees Wednesday informed them that the company would be cutting workers and closing specific facilities, resulting in job losses for more than 400 employees. Hawker Beechcraft Services facilities in Little Rock, Ark., Mesa, Ariz., and San Antonio, Texas, will “begin the process of closing,” shedding some 240 […]

Boeing’s next commercial twinjet, the 777X, might come with folding wings to ease maneuvering around jetways, according to a story this week in the Seattle Times. The longer wings, with a span of about 233 feet, would allow for a more fuel-efficient design, and would fold upward about 10 feet from the wingtip, an unnamed […]