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St. Louis County, Mo.’s tax department is targeting aircraft owners in an enforcement campaign aimed at collecting what may be millions of dollars in back property taxes. “We intend to recoup revenue that was owed to this county and has not been paid,” Jake Zimmerman, the county’s newly-elected tax assessor, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. […]

Stars And Stripes reported Friday that all 137 F-22 Raptors have been grounded over concerns about the aircraft’s oxygen system that may stem in part from a November fatal crash in Alaska. Following the November crash, the stealthy fighter jet has been restricted to altitudes of 25,000 and below. Officials say the restriction is due […]

Space Adventures pioneered the program that has to date launched eight private individuals into orbital space flight and now they’re looking to expand their offerings to include trips around the moon by 2015. The company says it has already sold one of two seats available for the flight. It would use a Soyuz-TMA spacecraft with […]

The all-purpose, idealistic answer is to start over, according to the Society of Aviation and Flight Educators, which met this week in Atlanta in the first-of-its-kind symposium to improve the quality and delivery of flight education. The practical answer, however, is a lot more complicated than that, according to the recommendations made by individual committees […]

FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt said Thursday that FAA budget cuts may endanger both the agency’s ability to oversee “the world’s safest aviation system” and may in fact stunt the very economic growth austere budgets are designed to create. Speaking at the Society of Aviation and Flight Educators symposium in Atlanta, Babbitt said safety oversight isn’t […]

The other news of last Sunday, May 1, 2011, was the discovery of a debris field that later led to recovery of Air France Flight 447’s cockpit and voice data recorders, and we now know more about how they did it. The Airbus A330 that was Flight 447 was lost with all 228 aboard, in […]

Is a high accident rate due to substandard training a major drag on the growth of general aviation? The Society of Aviation and Flight Educators (SAFE) thinks so and this week in Atlanta, they’re trying to do something about it. More than 150 instructors, examiners, regulators and industry experts have convened the society’s first symposium […]

Images of what appears to be the tail-rotor of one the helicopters used in Sunday’s raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound at Abbottabad, Pakistan, are hitting the internet, and may be a glimpse at something special. The parts don’t appear to come from the standard military catalogue. According to the Army Times, the aircraft “were […]

An amendment that passed the House in March and was included in the House version of the bill that funds the FAA would change how regulations are created and has sparked some safety concerns. The amendment’s critics include the NTSB and Sully Sullenberger, who believe the amendment would add a level of complexity that could […]

Many volunteer pilots tried in vain after Hurricane Katrina to offer their services to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help provide relief, but now FEMA is working with AERObridge, an NBAA-endorsed group, to plan ahead for GA support in future emergencies. An exercise is planned for May 13 to 17 to simulate response to […]