Ashley Burns

Had he not chosen Ohio’s back roads over the interstate on one fateful trip from Indiana to Pittsburgh in 2014, Vintage Wings might still just be Jason Capra’s childhood dream. But be it through divine fate or mere coincidence, the airline pilot with a lifelong obsession for World War II aircraft came face-to-tail with the […]

Lufthansa Airlines is the latest company to take advantage of Cirrus Aircraft‘s SR series for its training program. This week, Cirrus announced that Lufthansa Aviation Training purchased 25 SR20s for its facility in Goodyear, Arizona, where pilots have trained for decades in the favorable desert weather. In addition to Lufthansa’s pilots, airlines like Swiss Air, […]

Harrison Ford had the people of Boston buzzing earlier this month, when he was spotted visiting popular locations like the Freedom Trail and Fanueil Hall. He was in town as a guest of the Aero Club of New England, which honored the actor and pilot with its annual Godfrey L. Cabot Award for his work […]

Tom Cruise loves to do his own stunts. Even when his face isn’t on camera, the 54-year-old actor prefers to be in on the action because he wants everything to be completely authentic. This has always been the staple of Cruise’s Mission: Impossible franchise, as the actor gradually increased the number of stunts he performed […]

The FAA has awarded supplemental type certification for Innovative Solutions & Support‘s non-Fadec turboprop autothrottle. The Exton, Pennsylvania-based company said this week the autothrottle is now available to a market that features at least 25 different aircraft and over 13,000 individual tail numbers. Chief among them is the Pilatus PC-12, for which IS&S’s NextGen Flight […]

On Monday, President Trump introduced his Air Traffic Control Reform Initiative and outlined a vague plan to usher in a “great new era in American aviation.” He claimed that taking the existing “ancient, broken, antiquated, horrible” ATC system away from the FAA and putting it in the hands of a nonprofit entity will make air […]

On Monday, President Donald Trump announced his administration’s plans to lead the country into a “great new era in American aviation” through the privatization of air traffic control, something that has been strongly criticized by aviation groups. The Air Traffic Control Reform Initiative, he promises, will “finally” solve some of the greatest problems that he […]

Somalia’s Aden Adde International Airport was briefly closed on Tuesday because of an emergency landing. A Dornier 328JET chartered by the U.S.-based military contractor Bancroft was reportedly carrying western officials when it experienced landing gear failure upon approach to Mogadishu. As a result, the plane circled the airport to burn fuel, before making its successful […]

Google’s Sergey Brin isn’t the only billionaire taking up a lot of hangar space with an ambitious and massive aircraft construction project. For years, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has desired to make access to space more convenient and affordable, and from that the idea for Stratolaunch was born. On Wednesday, the world got its first […]

A 26-year-old man was arrested at Orlando International Airport on Tuesday night after a standoff with police in the rental car area. According to reports, Michael Wayne Pettigrew was carrying a “simulated gun” under his black jacket, and he asked a female Mears driver to call 911 “to bring the police,” and because he also […]