Business & Military

Godspeed Mary Grady

Mary Grady, one of AVweb’s longest-serving, most dedicated and respected contributing editors, died at her home in Warwick, Rhode Island, on March 12 after a long illness. Mary was one of the founding members of the internet experiment that became AVweb and continued as a key staff writer until her health challenges prompted a leave […]

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NTSB: Unstabilized Approach Caused Teterboro Crash

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined that the fatal crash of a Learjet 35A near New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport (TEB) on May 15, 2017, was caused by the pilot’s “attempt to salvage an unstabilized visual approach.” According to the NTSB, the aircraft stalled while conducting a circle-to-land maneuver and crashed into a commercial […]

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MAX Grounded. Now What?

From the moment the Commerce Department got its governmental mitts on pilot licensing in 1926, politics and aviation have been inextricably entwined. But rarely is that on such naked display as it was Wednesday when the FAA announced that it was joining much of the rest of the world in grounding Boeing’s 737 MAX after […]

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ATP Gets New Archers

ATP Flight School has announced that it has accepted delivery of eight Piper Archer TX aircraft. According to the school, the Archers will be going into service at ATP’s Dallas location in order to support the Envoy Air Cadet Program. Through the Cadet Program, American Airlines subsidiary Envoy Air offers financial assistance and a spot […]

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TBM 930 Sets New York-to-Paris Speed Record

Dierk Reuter and Phil Bozek used their Daher TBM 930 to beat a 34-year-old speed record on March 9, averaging 364 knots between Westchester County Airport (HPN) near New York City and Le Bourget Airport in France. Their 8-hour, 37-minute flight beat a record set by Chuck Yeager in 1985 in the C1e class for […]

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737 MAX 8 Software Update Coming, Calls For Grounding Intensify

Amid a rising chorus of calls for the FAA to ground the Boeing 737 MAX 8 after this weekend’s crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, Boeing announced that software updates are being readied ahead of an expected Airworthiness Directive “no later than April.” Meanwhile, two U.S. Senators have demanded the FAA ground the airplane. The […]

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Boeing Delays Rollout Of 777X

With the crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 dominating the news, Boeing announced late Sunday that it will delay the rollout of the 777X that was slated for Wednesday. The company has not said when the public debut will take place. The 425-passenger 777X is an evolution of the 777 twinjet, billed as the “most […]

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DC-3 Airliner Crash Kills 14

As aviation agencies all over the world focus on the crash of a state-of-the-art Boeing 737 MAX 8 in Ethiopia, Colombian officials are pondering the fate of one of the oldest airframes in regular revenue service. A Laser Aereo DC-3, which has flown pretty much continuously since it was delivered to the U.S. Air Force […]

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Teen Pilot Seeks Age Exemption

A teenager has petitioned the FAA to exempt him from its minimum age requirements so he can set some records. The young man, 15, wants the FAA to allow him to be a fully certificated private pilot before he turns the minimum age of 17 so he can pursue some records that would be ambitious […]

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