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In the first half of this year, sales of general aviation aircraft are down 10 percent compared to the first half of last year, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) reported on Wednesday. Last year, 1,039 aircraft were sold in the first six months, compared to 937 this year. Billings, however, were up 0.2 percent, […]

The FAA says pilots of Cessna 100-, 200-, and 300-series airplanes should intensify their efforts to check for water in the fuel before every flight. “All pilots, owners, operators, maintenance, and service personnel of these type airplanes should assume some water exists in the fuel tank system,” the FAA said in a Special Airworthiness Information […]

A major Canadian aviation industry group is accusing Transport Canada of grounding a charter operator for public relations reasons. John McKenna, president of the Air Transport Association of Canada (ATAC) called a news conference Monday to tell reporters he believes Transport Canada’s decision to pull the operating certificate for Aeropro Aviation, of Quebec City, was […]

About 60 Chinese student pilots face an uncertain future after the abrupt closure of a London, Ontario flight school that took their $55,000 tuition up front and was evicted from its facilities for non-payment of rent before training was complete. The London Free Press says some of the students are also facing eviction from their […]

Baron Services, the parent company of WxWorx, is going beyond cockpit weather and offering an Internet-based service for flight planning. Its new QuickLink service is subscription-based and provides a host of graphical weather tools covering the continental U.S. and southern Canada. “We see Baron QuickLink as the perfect pre-flight planning weather tool,” said Bob Baron, […]

As Congress was heading out the door last weekend for a six-week break, both houses approved an FAA bill (PDF) that extends funding for the agency only for the next two months, but they tacked on some provisions that affect pilot certification. The bill requires that every pilot flying for a commercial airline must hold […]

The State of Kansas has ensured Bombardier’s Lear 85 composite business jet will be assembled, painted and prepared for customers in Wichita by lending the Canadian planemaker $27 million in bond financing to build the facilities necessary to carry out the work. The new facilities will support 600 jobs, of which 300 will be new […]

With a growing aerospace industry and a location that provides access to the Latin American market, an economic development group in Florida hopes to bring a major commercial airshow similar to the one in Paris to Miami every other year. Airbus has moved its Latin America and Caribbean sales team from France to Miami, and […]

The challenging wet weather in Oshkosh leading up to opening weekend was surely a factor in keeping this year’s attendance figures about 7 percent lower than last year, but EAA President Tom Poberezny says the drop was expected after last year’s “blockbuster” event. But he added that the second half of the week was “outstanding.” […]

Superior Airparts, which has been operating in bankruptcy since 2009, announced that it has made a partnership deal with a Chinese technology group to both revitalize the company’s U.S. operations and to also build a factory in China. The Chinese plant will build Superior’s 180-HP Vantage engines for the Chinese and Asian markets. The new […]