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LISA Airplanes’ amphibious AKOYA LSA turned heads at AirVenture Oshkosh 2012, may have prompted some head scratching with its $350,000 price tag, and may now add some head shaking as the company enters receivership “to protect its future.” Receivership is a type of corporate bankruptcy in which a court-appointed “receiver” is given the responsibility to […]

The FAA submitted a report to Congress this week titled Aircraft Certification Process Review Reform, which could ultimately affect the cost of new aircraft, and GAMA has now issued a cautious but positive response. According to GAMA President and CEO Pete Bunce, the report is “an important first step” toward improving the efficiency of the […]

Two skydivers who missed their intended drop zone at St. Mary’s Airport in southeast Georgia and instead landed at Naval Base King’s Bay next door, which hosts Ohio Class nuclear submarines and their Trident nuclear missiles, were quickly detained last Sunday. They landed on a ball field. Base spokesman Scott Bassett said the pair, who […]

The third test of an unmanned X-51A Waverider, designed to test a scramjet engine flying at six times the speed of sound, failed Tuesday and the vehicle was lost off the coast of Southern California. Early accounts provided by the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base state that the vehicle dropped from […]

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. Potomac Airport owner and operator David Wartofsky’s latest YouTube video may educate pilots about the Washington, D.C., area’s Flight Restricted Zone (FRZ), though some viewers may find the video’s use of troll dolls […]

The FAA has asked for comments on its plan to take the last Direction Finders in U.S. airspace offline. Twenty-nine DFs remain operational in Alaska, along with their associated approaches, but the FAA says nobody has used them since 2008. GPS and ADS-B have reduced the need for DF steers, the FAA says, and Flight […]

GippsAero, the Australian manufacturer of the GA8 Airvan, said this week it has signed a partnership agreement with Soloy Aviation Solutions, based in Olympia, Wash., to assemble the airplanes for the North American market. Soloy also will provide technical support. GippsAero said it has been working for more than a year to increase its presence […]

Texting talking on a cellphone while flying is being cited in the fatal crash of an aerial survey aircraft in Canada in November of 2011. The Transportation Safety Board stopped short of blaming the crash of the Cessna 185 on the pilot’s extensive cellphone use while on the short flight from Peace River, Alberta, to […]

The Chinese company that wants to buy Hawker Beechcraft’s civilian aviation business has adapted quickly to American business practices and hired a Washington lobby firm to smooth its acquisition through officialdom. Locke Lord Strategies has filed notice with the House of Representatives that it will represent Superior Air Parts Beijing on “aviation issues.” Although a […]

The Latin America Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (LABACE) runs from Wednesday to Friday in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the show is now billing itself as the second-largest business aviation event in the world (behind NBAA). All the major OEMs will be there in force with multiple aircraft in the static display and booths on […]