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A European light aircraft manufacturer is claiming the FAA has suspended imports of its aircraft to the U.S. because it couldn’t locate one of its factories with a Google Earth search. Michael Coates, who handles U.S. distribution for Slovenia-based Pipistrel Aircraft, said the company has since provided ample proof that the factory does exist but […]

When Cessna introduced the mid-sized Latitude at last year’s NBAA convention in Las Vegas, much of the hallway discussion was about its relatively modest range of 2,000 nm. Cessna apparently heard that chatter and a few months after the convention boosted the range to 2,300 nm, matching that of the Embraer 450. At LABACE in […]

The Rotax 912 iS aircraft engine, which was introduced at Aero Friedrichshafen earlier this year, this week received a type certificate from EASA. The engine also was recently ASTM certified. “These are important milestones in the commercialization of new aircraft engines,” said Gerd Ohrnberger, general manager of BRP-Powertrain. The company said it will now will […]

Both The New York Times and Forbes this week published unusually upbeat stories about general aviation. Fractional-ownership and charter jet operators have seen a rise in business over the last year or so, according to the Times story, by Joe Sharkey. XOJet, a charter operator, for example, reported a 55 percent increase in flight hours […]

The NTSB on Tuesday posted online more than 900 pages of documents plus photographs related to its investigation of a fatal crash at last year’s National Championship Air Races in Reno. Among the documents is a careful examination of a video shot by a spectator at the event, which concludes that the Galloping Ghost, flown […]

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. A research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has designed an autonomous airplane that is able to follow an internal map through a parking garage and navigate successfully, avoiding obstacles, without the […]

Laurent Aboulin, of France, won the unlimited class in the World Gliding Championships in Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday. Dozens of teams competing in three classes flew prescribed courses with a minimum of three waypoints in closed loop over more than 200 miles over 13 days of competition. First place in the 18-meter wingspan (about 60 […]

It was National Aviation Day in the U.S. on Sunday, marking what would have been Orville Wright’s 141st birthday. The day passed unnoticed in most places although it’s been a nationally proclaimed special day since 1939, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt deemed the nation’s first pilot of a powered aircraft worthy of remembrance on his […]

Researchers who combed the sea bottom off a remote Pacific island for Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Electra say raw video shows “manmade objects,” but they are stopping short of saying the mystery of her disappearance has been solved. “It’s still very early days but we have man-made objects in a debris field in the place we’d […]

The Canadian Forces Snowbirds aerobatics performance team has flown the CT-114 Tutor since 1971 and now, according to documents obtained by Canada’s The Citizen, they are in the early stages of finding replacement aircraft. Amid tight budgeting guidelines and looming modernization costs across the whole of the Canadian Forces, authorities are prepared to spend $755 […]