Recent Updates

Mooney is officially back in the aircraft production business thanks to a cash infusion from its new Chinese owners. Mooney International, as it is now called, hopes to begin delivery of new Acclaims and Ovations by the third quarter of 2014. “The last time we restarted the line, it took a year but I want […]

Bombardier will furlough about 300 of its Learjet workers in Wichita, Kan., for six weeks during the first half of this year, according to the Wichita Eagle. Bombardier cited challenges in the jet market as the impetus for the change. A memo sent to workers last week said the layoffs would affect Learjet 70 and […]

While most airlines blamed winter weather for delays and tie-ups over the weekend, JetBlue also cited the FAA’s new pilot rest rules as a factor. The carrier took the unusual step of canceling all flights at New York and Boston airports Monday afternoon through Tuesday morning. At the JetBlue website, the airline posted its litany […]

Union workers at Boeing narrowly accepted a contract offer the company says will guarantee its new 777X aircraft will be built in the Seattle area. On Friday, International Association of Machinists members voted 51 percent in favor of the deal, which was a sweetened version of an offer that was soundly rejected by the union […]

The fight over Santa Monica Airport heated up on Jan. 3, 2014, as a federal judge denied the FAAs request for an extension of time to respond to the lawsuit filed by the City in November seeking to close the airport. Citing what he referred to as the time-sensitive nature of the action, Judge John […]

70 years after their groundbreaking service, a Rose Parade float carrying eight former Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) and accompanied by numerous active women pilots honored the accomplishments of the women who flew for their country in World War II. Dominated by a floral replica of the AT-6 advanced trainer flown by all WASPs […]

An incentive to use technology to reduce overflight noise for Grand Canyon National Park air tour operators kicked in on the first day of the new year. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the eight flightseeing operators have to pay a $25 fee per flight over the Grand Canyon; however, the fee is reduced to […]

Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has received an order for 15 Hurkus advanced trainer aircraft from the Turkish Air Force and will enter serial production of the turboprop single in 2017. In the meantime TAI will also get to work on the armed light attack version of the aircraft, and the combined portfolio will be direct […]

“We are concerned that there is a sort of perfect storm approaching us in terms of flying retention,” acting Secretary of the Air Force Eric Fanning told Foreign Policy magazine in a recent interview. “If Im looking at my jet parked on the ramp instead of flying it, and I can get a job somewhere […]

Kenneth Schechter, who died earlier this month in Fairfield, Calif., at age 83, had been just 22 years old when he survived an unusual blind landing in Korea. Schechter was flying an A-1 Skyraider above the Korean coastline on his 27th combat mission, in 1952, when an enemy shell blew the canopy off his airplane […]