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Partly because they had a cellphone, all three aboard a 1966 Cessna 172 survived a mountainside crash Saturday that left a section of the Cessna’s wing in a tree and sent two of the occupants through the windscreen. Pilot Brian Brown, his wife and their youngest daughter were en route from Sacramento to Idaho when […]

Pieces of glass found a year ago on Nikumaroro Island in the southwest Pacific may add to circumstantial evidence that Amelia Earheart lived there as a castaway, but there are complications.The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) have been on the otherwise uninhabited island searching for any evidence that Earhart crashed near the landmass […]

A new company called Flight of the Century Inc. announced last week they intend to fly an electric-powered aircraft nonstop across the Atlantic, following Charles Lindbergh’s famous route between New York and Paris. To solve the problem of limited battery life, the design team plans to use small drones that will meet up with the […]

Pilots of general aviation aircraft should be careful about allowing passengers to share a seat and a seat belt, the FAA says in a clarification to its seat-belt requirements, released last week. “Prior [FAA] interpretations state that the shared use of a single restraint may be permissible,” the FAA said. But the new clarification says […]

The National Business Aviation Association is among 2,100 signatories to proposed legislation it says will prevent government officials from meeting with and talking to those who will be most affected by their actions. All arms of government, including the executive branch, are trying to curb travel costs and among the potential policies (PDF) that has […]

NavMonster, a popular free online GA flight planning and information site, is the latest to announce that uncertainty about future costs and potential lawsuits have forced its closure. The site went offline in April over a dispute with its server host but said it would be back after it found a new internet service provider. […]

The co-chairs of the House General Aviation Caucus are seeking supporters for their opposition to a bill that would expand the authority of the National Park Service to control aviation operations, EAA said last week. If the bill passes, it would grant authority to the Park Service director to regulate commercial air tours above the […]

The airplanes involved in a midair collision that killed two people on Monday afternoon in Virginia were owned by employees of the NTSB and the FAA, the NTSB said on Tuesday, so the Transportation Safety Board of Canada has agreed to take over the investigation. The Piper PA-28 was registered to an FAA employee, who […]

A new FAA study published in May divides the country’s 2,952 public-use general aviation facilities into four new categories, which will affect their funding and regulation in the future. The facilities, which include 2,903 airports, 10 heliports, and 39 seaplane bases, now will be labeled as national, regional, local, or basic, determined by their level […]

Two people died on Monday afternoon when a Piper PA-28 and a small six-seat airplane collided in Virginia, and one pilot was killed last week when two agricultural airplanes collided in Arkansas. The Piper appeared to be inbound to the Warrenton-Fauquier airport, according to FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown, and the pilot was able to land […]