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Gainesville, Florida, is the hub of a GA relief effort to help the hurricane-ravaged Florida Panhandle in the wake of Hurricane Michael. Only a few weeks after mounting a major effort to help some of the millions affected by Hurricane Florence in the Carolinas, Operation Airdrop began receiving and distributing supplies on Sunday. Gainesville is […]

By some estimates as many as 22 F-22 Raptor fighters were damaged or destroyed when Hurricane Michael scored a direct hit on Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida on Wednesday. Tyndall is the main F-22 base in the U.S. and according to various sources only 33 of the base’s 55 Raptors were evacuated ahead of […]

On the eve of the National Business Aviation Association convention (NBAA-BACE) in Orlando, Textron has shifted the sometimes-controversial president of its aviation division, Scott Ernest, to the arm of the company that makes golf carts, snowmobiles and lawn mowers. Replacing him is the former head of operations for the aviation division Ron Draper. Under Ernest, […]

As we reported earlier, the FAA is reinstating its $500 rebate for equipage with ADS-B Out as an incentive for aircraft operators to get the new gear installed before the Jan. 1, 2020, deadline. The agency has set aside $4.9 million for the program, which will ease the financial impact on 9,800 aircraft owners and […]

The Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) board of directors announced on Monday that it has selected Mike Adamson to succeed current president and CEO Paula Derks. Derks, who has served as AEA’s CEO since 1996, will be retiring next March. Adamson will officially take over the job on March 25, 2019, at the 62nd annual AEA […]

The Pentagon temporarily grounded the United States’ F-35 fleet on Thursday after the discovery of defective fuel tubes in an F-35 engine. The findings come from the initial investigation into the crash of an F-35B in late September. Israel and the UK have also paused F-35 flights as a result. “The U.S. Services and international […]

Singapore Airlines launched the first flight of its newly reopened nonstop route from Singapore’s Changi Airport (SIN) to Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) on Thursday. The Airbus A350-900ULR departed SIN with 150 passengers and 17 crew members onboard. The flight is expected to travel approximately 8,285 NM and be in the air for an estimated […]

Air-racer, record-setter and test pilot Darryl Greenamyer died last week at the age of 82. He started his flying career with the Air Force Reserve. After leaving the Air Force, Greenamyer became an SR-71 test pilot for Lockheed’s—now Lockheed Martin—Skunk Works. Greenamyer competed in the Reno Air Races for nearly 40 years, winning 11 championships […]

A Russian cosmonaut and an American astronaut were recovered unharmed early Thursday after the Soyuz booster they were aboard on a launch to the International Space Station failed. The failure put the MS-10 capsule into a ballistic trajectory and it and the crew were recovered 200 miles east of the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch point, NASA […]

Bruce Whitman, chairman, president, and CEO of FlightSafety International, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 85. Whitman joined the U.S. Air Force after graduating from Connecticut’s Trinity College in 1955, earning ratings as a pilot, navigator and bombardier before being appointed Assistant to the Commander at Homestead Air Force Base in 1957. He […]