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The FAA Thursday proposed a $2.4 million fine for Cessna due to the company’s failure to follow quality control measures in production of specific Corvalis parts built in Mexico. According to the FAA, on Dec. 6, 2010, a high-performance, four-seat, composite fixed-gear Corvalis flown by an FAA test pilot experienced separation of a seven-foot section […]

An arm of Canada’s federal government has served a six-month eviction notice on a major aviation museum in the country’s largest city. Workers at the Canadian Air and Space Museum in Toronto got to work last Tuesday to find the locks changed and an eviction notice on the door. The museum is on former Canadian […]

Authorities in Canada’s Northwest Territories are saying it’s a miracle more people were not killed and injured when an Arctic Sunwest Airlines Twin Otter floatplane crashed on a busy downtown street in the Territories’ capital city of Yellowknife just after the noon hour on Thursday. The two pilots aboard the big turboprop twin died in […]

First Cargolux Airlines on Sept. 16 decided to delay taking delivery of the first two 747-8 freighters and now, for separate reasons, Atlas Air has canceled orders for three of jets. The 747-8 was originally scheduled to enter service two years ago but early flight tests led to a wing redesign. Cargolux based its decision […]

NextGen air traffic control improvements are championed by government officials, but one former government official argued through an editorial this week that ATC may fare better in private hands. According to Peter Orszag, former director of the Office of Management and Budget, NextGen is “a step in the right direction.” But because it’s being rolled […]

One reason we don’t know more about why Boeing aircraft suffered fuselage skin cracking can be tied to regulatory decisions made by the FAA. A Southwest Airlines 737-300 suffered a crack in its fuselage on April 1, and an American Airlines 757-200 suffered a tear in its skin last year. Both incidents led to the […]

It seems the stigma of “private” jet travel extends even to top-ranked military officers in Canada, where the country’s top soldier will likely pay back part of the cost for at least one trip he took in a Royal Canadian Air Force Challenger bizjet. Gen. Walt Natynczyk, Canada’s Chief of Defense Staff (the equivalent of […]

Thirteen teams applied to compete in next week’s Green Flight Challenge, with $1.65 million in prize money at stake — the largest aviation prize ever offered — but now the field is down to five competitors, NASA and the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency (CAFE) Foundation said on Tuesday. Only those five teams met all of […]

Bombardier is cutting production of its CRJ regional jet series due to a slowdown in orders, but there won’t be any layoffs as a result. The company says it has more than enough work for the about 350 workers who will be affected at the company’s Mirabel, Quebec, CRJ plant. Bombardier currently has the CSeries […]

A San Francisco-based company said last week it has developed a new way to make jet biofuel from renewable materials that is “highly cost-effective.” AliphaJet said its catalytic method uses materials derived from plants and animals such as triglycerides and fatty acids. “Our strategy fundamentally improves the economics of making 100-percent drop-in renewable jet biofuel,” […]