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Created “to fund initiatives that ensure a healthy future for the general aviation community,” Sporty’s Foundation Friday released its annual report showing total bequests of $151,355 in 2008. Original funding for the foundation came from Sporty’s Pilot Shop and its affiliate businesses but was bolstered by the foundation’s online auction of a Cessna Citation Mustang […]

The letter released last week by 70 mayors and county executives sent to President Barack Obama began, “Recent negative press which has mischaracterized general aviation has created a poisonous climate for the aviation sector of our economy,” but for some the message may prove too little and too late. Intended to show the importance of […]

The NTSB has determined in the case of two EMS helicopters that collided near Flagstaff Medical Center last June, killing all seven persons aboard, that had the pilots “been more attentive and aware” and communications more thorough the accident could have been prevented. According to the NTSB, the actions of both pilots contributed to the […]

The Obama administration has taken a look and after production of 187 aircraft, “the administration proposes to terminate the F-22 Raptor program,” and close the Raptor production line. The quote comes straight from the Terminations, Reductions, and Savings report offered up by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The Raptor program costs the United […]

The FAA is examining some Colgan Air crew members to determine if they exceeded flight-time limitations, but according to Colgan that examination is not in any way related to the NTSB investigation of Colgan Air Flight 3407 that crashed Feb. 12, in Buffalo, N.Y, killing all 49 on board and one person on the ground. […]

In 2008, hackers temporarily gained the power to shut down FAA servers, according to an audit performed by the Department of Transportation. The report states that the United States air traffic control system is highly vulnerable to cyber attack in large part due to Web applications (those accessed via Internet browser) run by aviation authorities […]

There may be about $3.6 trillion in the Obama administration’s proposed budget, but that may not include funding for LORAN-C because “it is obsolete technology,” according to a report released by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) titled Terminations, Reductions, and Savings. Cutting LORAN-C would save $36 million in 2010 and $190 million that […]

While some aviation companies wait anxiously for the economic turnaround, other companies have found ways to benefit, and Lopresti Aviation is one of those. People who don’t want to spend the money for a new airplane will spend to improve their current airplanes, chief operating officer Arjay Siegel told TCPalm this week — and that’s […]

The FAA sent out a notice this week reminding pilots that the deadline is May 18 to comply with a new rule from the Department of Homeland Security that requires the pilots of private aircraft on international flights to submit reports with Customs and Border Protection. The rule requires GA pilots to submit crew and […]

A group of volunteers who met while working on the Steve Fossett search in 2007 have formed an ad hoc group called the Missing Aircraft Search Team (MAST), and this week they announced their first recovery — a Cessna 182 that was lost near Sedona, Ariz., in September 2006, with two souls on board. “Our […]