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Witnesses say the pilots of a CASA 212 appear to have made a last-second decision to avoid landing on an a crowded commuter route and instead hit a brick sound barrier next to the freeway in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada last Friday. One man on the plane died but the two pilots survived with relatively minor […]

Flight Design executives said at Sun ‘n Fun last week they will introduce a mock-up of their four-seat fully-certified airplane at the Aero show in Friedrichschafen, Germany, later this month, and will also show it at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh in July. They showed renderings of the design to the press corps at Lakeland. The […]

A small probe that can fit into an aircraft fuel line, detect water in the system, and alert a pilot was introduced at Sun ‘n Fun last week by Jim Wiebe, CEO of Belite Aircraft. The system is still undergoing testing, he said, and he intends to have test and reliability data available at EAA […]

NARCO, an iconic company that started making avionics long before they were called avionics, has closed and is apparently in bankruptcy. The company, which started in 1945, has darkened its website except for one page, which contains this message: “Due to circumstances beyond our control, we regret to inform you that after over 65 years […]

The crew of a Gulfstream G650 test aircraft that crashed at Roswell, N.M., on Saturday morning had been conducting braking tests, according to Gulfstream. All on board — two pilots and two flight engineers — were killed. The aircraft had been in the pattern for a couple of hours, FAA spokesman Lynn Lunsford told EAA […]

A Gulfstream 650 test aircraft went down near Roswell, N.M., killing all four people aboard. According to the Savannah Morning News, the plane, which is in the final stages of certification flight testing, crashed at the airport. The accident killed two pilots and two engineers, all believed to be Gulfstream employees. Initial media reports paint […]

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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. click for larger image Southwest Airlines Flight 812, a Boeing 737 carrying about 118 people out of Phoenix for Sacramento, Friday, diverted to Yuma Marine Corps air station in Arizona after an in-flight […]

Burt Rutan announced through a November 2010 Scaled Composites press release his plans to retire in April, 2011, and that day has come … but there may be at least one more aircraft up his sleeve before he goes. Rutan’s career began in earnest in 1974, with a $15,000 loan from his father and an […]

Strong demand from the corporate sector, plus interest from emerging countries and high-net-worth individuals, translated to a sharp rise in fourth-quarter profits at Bombardier that have so far continued in 2011. The company earned 88 net orders in the last quarter of 2010 and most (74) were for business jets. That compares to 33 orders, […]