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When Cessna put the Columbus program on hold in April, hope remained that the jet, which would have been Cessna’s biggest ever, would reappear sometime in the future. “Don’t write the Columbus off your radar screen,” said Lewis Campbell, CEO of Textron, Cessna’s parent company, at the time. But last week, Textron said the Columbus […]

Southwest Airlines says it’s found no evidence of structural problems in the rest of its roughly 200 Boeing 737-300 aircraft after a football-sized hole appeared in the fuselage of one of the planes Monday. The hole occurred near the vertical stabilizer. Flight 2294 was on its way from Nashville to Baltimore at 34,000 feet when […]

With fire season coming early to the southwest, three aircraft and two helicopters operated by regional firefighters at the Grand Junction Interagency Air Center in Colorado were grounded Friday morning after it was found that burglars had entered the aircraft and stolen equipment. “Tens of thousands of dollars” worth of pilot gear and equipment is […]

Multiple submarines remain in the search for sunken debris, but they will no longer be actively “listening” for emergency signals from the recorders aboard Air France Flight 447. It’s been more than 40 days since the Airbus A330-220, with 228 aboard, crashed in the Atlantic ocean while en route out of Rio de Janeiro for […]

If your FBO doesn’t sell $5,000 worth of charts annually, it might not be selling any charts to anyone after Oct. 5, 2009 — that’s when the FAA and National Aeronautical Navigation Services (formerly NACO) new Chart Agent criteria take effect. Proponents claim the new criteria will help reduce costs and increase efficiency; opponents fear […]

Two men plan to fly their Rotax-912S-powered, aluminum-constructed and modified D6 Sling light sport airplane (not as modified) around the world, carrying up to 118 gallons in each wing for the longer legs, including at least one over-ocean stretch of more than 2,000 nautical miles. Mike Blyth and James Pitman hope to begin the journey […]

It’s been a tough week for performance pilots. Chandy Clanton, three-time member of the United States Unlimited Aerobatic Team and several time EAA AirVenture Oshkosh performer, was killed Friday in her Edge 540 ahead of the Wingnuts Flying Circus in Tarkio, Mo. She was 36 years old. On Thursday, Reno Air Races pilot Gary Miller […]

Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. Although a first flight for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner will have to wait until engineering fixes strengthen the wing attachments, that doesn’t mean the aircraft has to sit idle. Engineers and test pilots […]

Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. United Airlines has offered to break its baggage loss policy and compensate a Canadian singer for his broken guitar. Dave Carroll became an Internet sensation last week when his music video entitled United […]

“It was like an explosion going off inside the plane,” a passenger of a Great Barrier Airlines Trislander told the New Zealand Herald, after the aircraft’s right engine threw at least one blade into the side of the aircraft as it carried 11, with an empty seat in the cabin … where the blade hit. […]