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A Hawaiian helicopter tour and fixed-wing charter and scheduled air service company has become the first in the U.S. to earn International Standard for Business Aircraft Operations (IS-BAO) accreditation. Schumann Aviation, which operates Makani Kai Helicopters and Makani Kai Air, earned the certification in October after a thorough audit by the standards organization. “The IS-BAO […]

Aviation’s elder generation lost several luminaries recently — Albert Lee Ueltschi, the founder of FlightSafety International; Monte Mitchell, a former president of the Aircraft Electronics Association; and George McGovern, best known for his political career, who flew a B-24 bomber during World War II. Ueltschi, who died on Oct. 18 at age 95, learned to […]

In a surprise announcement Monday, EAA President and CEO Rod Hightower said he was stepping down effective immediately. The decision came following an EAA board of directors meeting in which former Cessna CEO Jack Pelton was elected chairman. EAA spokesman Dick Knapinski said Pelton will oversee the search for a new president for the organization. […]

More than three and a half years have passed since the last airline fatality in the U.S., The Associated Press reported last week, and that record is making it harder for the FAA to impose expensive new safety rules on the industry. Overall, the last 10 years have been the safest time ever for the […]

Obtaining a pilot certificate in popular training areas of the Southwest may get more expensive thanks to a decision by the FAA to limit the number flight tests designated pilot examiners (DPEs) can administer. FAA spokesman Ian Gregor confirmed to AVweb that the agency has capped flight tests for DPEs under the authority of the […]

One of about a dozen flyable Hawker Hurricane fighters will go on the auction block in England in December. The Hurricane Mk. X11a is now owned by the Historic Aircraft Collection in Duxford and is expected to fetch about $2.7 million when prestigious auction house Bonhams puts it on the block. “This Hurricane is one […]

Bendix/King has announced that its myWingMan application is now available for download from iTunes. The app is an all-in-one navigation, weather and flight information tool that combines moving map, weather and synthetic vision in one package with a simple user interface that does not use multiple menus for on-screen navigation. “We didn’t set out to […]

A small British company claims to have done it, and hopes to use similar processes to produce aviation fuel, but there are still some reasons we probably won’t be creating vast quantities of fuel from air anytime soon. Since August, the systems and processes developed by Air Fuel Synthesis in Stockton-on-Tees has produced “five litres […]

The ever adventurous and publicity-savvy Sir Richard Branson Thursday recognized Felix Baumgartner’s Red Bull-sponsored record freefall by also telling the world his company once considered a jump from 400,000 feet — and might consider it, again. In a blog post at Virgin.com Branson says his people were approached in 2005 by an individual who wanted […]

British farmer and aviation enthusiast David Cundall Tuesday signed an agreement with Burma’s government to unearth a cache of what he expects will be dozens of Spitfires carefully stored and buried in that country at the end of World War II. Roughly 35 Spitfires are still flown in the world, today. Cundall and his Burmese […]