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The final resting place of Air France Flight 447, the Airbus 330-203 that was carrying 228 people out of Rio for Paris, when it crashed June 1, 2009, has been located in the deep sea, several hundred miles off Brazil’s northeastern coast. BEA, the French investigative agency, Monday showed pictures of the aircraft’s landing gear, […]

The House version of the FAA reauthorization bill passed last Friday contains an amendment that would maintain the Blocked Aircraft Registration Request (BARR) program and allow aircraft owners to prevent Internet tracking of their aircraft’s movements. The amendment, if it survives the conference stage of the legislative process in which the Senate and House merge […]

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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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