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As they gut it out in the toughest economy to hit general aviation in history, business owners could be forgiven for dreaming of being stranded on a tropical island. But what if that island came with five airplanes and a profitable charter business that has barely been touched by the recession? After building it from […]

Friday, a Piper Super Cub banner tow aircraft reportedly dispatched to buzz a New York City Flight 1549 anniversary celebration while trailing a sign that read “If you died today, would you go to heaven or hell? John 14:6” made a forced landing at Fresh Kills landfill, which holds 9/11 wreckage. The owner of Smoketown […]

Certain Bendix/King KLN and KLX products have been compromised by their latest database updates and the company says those products should not be used until the problem is corrected. Bendix/King adds that “it is imperative” that the units not be used for arrival, departure or approach operations until corrected. Jeppesen apparently delivered some bad data […]

Already set to host what may be the last largest DC-3 gathering, EAA’s AirVenture has announced it is working together with Warbirds of America and Disabled American Veterans to bring a “Salute to Veterans” to AirVenture Oshkosh 2010. The complete list of events has yet to be finalized, but EAA announced a sketch of events […]

Designed for working professionals and available as a mix of online courses and six-day on-campus residencies, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University’s Ph.D. in Aviation, the “only one in the nation,” has begun. There are eleven students pioneering the research-intensive three-year course that began this month and aims “to tackle the major issues facing today’s aviation aerospace […]

The city that in 2001 saw its greatest aviation disaster and in 2009 a relative aviation triumph will now see aviation’s great racing spectacle; New York City has been selected to host a Red Bull Air Race in 2010. The air race itself is a series and New York will host the fifth race of […]

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has released a preliminary report on a Westwind 1124A jet that successfully made a nighttime poor weather ditching in the ocean three nautical miles west of Norfolk Island, some 900 miles east of Brisbane, Australia. The jet was operating IFR as an aeromedical flight with one patient and five […]

January 14, United States Air Force Special Tactics personnel were on the ground controlling airport operations at Toussaint L’Ouverture International, Haiti, but the ramp area was already saturated with 44 aircraft, forcing a temporary closure. The airport operates a control tower, two fuel trucks and one 9,974-foot runway. The control tower was rendered useless by […]

As the enormity of the earthquake disaster in Haiti becomes more clear, relief agencies are shifting into high gear to try and prevent further suffering and death in the impoverished country. And while government-sponsored relief and the Red Cross will lead the charge, there are ways that individuals can help. Venice, Fla.-based Agape Flight is […]

Houston air traffic controllers now are beginning to use the satellite-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system to more efficiently and safely separate and manage aircraft flying over the Gulf of Mexico, where radar can’t reach, the FAA said on Tuesday. “This is a significant, early step toward NextGen,” said FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt, in a […]