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Changes are expected soon that would make China much more open to general aviation, according to China Daily. “There will be progress in opening up the low-altitude airspace in the later half of this year, and many local governments have expressed interest in investment,” said Wang Xia, vice president of the General Aviation School at […]

Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner will stretch its reputedly long legs next week in a coming out party near London. The company has confirmed one of five test articles of the largely composite airliner will be on display at the Farnborough Air Show, which, is the big tick mark on the commercial aviation calendar for this year. […]

It’s still out there, but it can be awfully hard to find. There are two reasons: one is that the price difference between mogas and avgas has narrowed substantially since the heyday of mogas for airplanes during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Then there’s ethanol, which the vast majority of autogas contains these days, […]

A Washington teenager accused, among other things, of stealing several airplanes is behind bars in the Bahamas. Colton Harris-Moore, whose cult status earned him the nickname the Barefoot Bandit, was arrested by the Royal Bahamas Police Force in an ending fitting for the movie that will inevitably be made about the youth’s crime spree. A […]

Air Force Predators last year managed an accident rate per 100,000 hours that nearly matched GA’s rate for the same period, according to The Los Angeles Times. The newspaper Wednesday published an article that listed the Air Force Predator’s accident rate at 7.5 per 100,000 flight hours in 2009. The rate for general aviation during […]

The pilot who crashed a CT-114 Tutor during a photo flight with the Canadian Snowbirds in 2008 was not trained for the role that ultimately killed him and his onboard photographer, according to the flight safety report. Lead investigator Major Kevin Roberts told CTVNews that experienced pilot Captain Bryan Mitchell was maneuvering with the formation […]

Thursday, Ken Evers and Tim Pryse returned to Australia, becoming the first Australians to circumnavigate the earth in an Australian-designed and built airplane, the Airvan GA8-TC, but they also had a greater cause. The trip was intended to raise awareness of malaria and raise money for malaria prevention programs while also marking the centenary of […]

A real estate auction company has opened its horizons to aviation and chosen AirVenture Oshkosh 2010 to sell some uniquely historic aircraft side-by-side with yours, if you’d like. Bidding will open early and some aircraft “may be pre-sold,” according to auctioneer REDC. Aircraft set to go on the block at “The Spirit of Aviation Auction” […]

Following up on its visit to Ada, Okla., on Wednesday, AOPA said it’s looking forward to additional data on General Aviation Modifications Inc.’s G100UL, a proposed replacement for 100LL. “With that data, we can examine the production, distribution, performance, emissions and economic impacts associated with any given proposed alternative,” said Rob Hackman, AOPA’s vice president […]

Solar Impulse HB-SIA began its 24-hour flight at 6:51 a.m. local time, Wednesday, seeking to finish it Thursday, after surviving the night over Payerne, Switzerland, on stored solar power and aerodynamic efficiency. The aircraft climbed all day to about 28,500 feet. It began that trip using stored battery power, but as the sun rose the […]