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The FAA says so-called through-the-fence agreements, where “hangar home” landowners adjacent to airports have gated access to the airport next door, threaten operations, safety, security and future expansion of airports. The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure heard from all sides of the debate over whether these kinds of deals should be allowed. The FAA […]

A group of University of Toronto students has just announced that a flight of their human-powered flapping-wing aircraft, The Snowbird, on Aug. 2 may have set an FAI record with a “first ever” flight for its kind. The group believes that after being towed aloft, the aircraft maintained speed and altitude for 19.3 seconds and […]

The Midwest LSA Expo, which launched for the first time just last year, is back for a second time. This version features more exhibitors and it’s scheduled a week earlier in hopes of catching nice early-fall weather. The event runs Thursday through Saturday this week at Mt. Vernon Outland Airport (MVN) in Illinois, about an […]

Eclipse jets should soon be able to fly as high as Flight Level 410, as originally intended, Eclipse Aerospace said this week. Currently, the FAA restricts the fleet to FL 370, but since taking over the EA500 twin-engine personal jet design just over a year ago, the new Eclipse Aerospace Inc. has been working to […]

Cessna will cut an additional 700 jobs, CEO Jack Pelton announced on Tuesday. In an e-mail to employees, Pelton cited a “stalled … lackluster economy” and said that while cancellations of aircraft orders have slowed, the recovery and growth that was expected this year has not materialized. “We must continue to lower our cost structure […]

A runway extension at Aspen-Pitkin Regional Airport may happen sooner rather than later. Aspen officials have been told they may need a resolution in place to accept about $14 million in federal funding for the extra 1,000 feet of runway, which would allow larger regional airliners to use the airport, which serves popular resort areas […]

Opposition is mounting to the FAA’s proposal to greatly expand the Class C airspace around Long Beach Airport in California. Pilot groups, both local and national, have weighed in on the consequences for GA, which include the impact on local flight schools, which will have to go further afield for practice. The latest round of […]

If there’s any truth to the maxim that the right time to expand is when times are tough, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University may be poised to test that. The country’s largest aviation education institution is considering a third campus to complement the current facilities in Daytona Beach and Prescott, Ariz. ERAU President John Johnson told the […]

The Senate has OK’d the continuation of a tax break for companies that buy airplanes before the end of this year, and both the National Business Aviation Association and the General Aviation Manufacturers Association welcomed the news. The tax break, known as “bonus depreciation,” allows companies to take a bigger tax deduction in the first […]

Steve Hinton won the big title at the National Championship Air Races in Reno on Sunday but it wasn’t the way he wanted to win. “It’s more than kind of disappointing,” the 23-year-old Hinton told the Reno Gazette-Journal. The final race of the Unlimited Class was cancelled because of high winds (southwest gusts to 30 […]