Bethany Whitfield

As Gulfstream’s G150 fleet recently flew past the 100,000-flight-hour mark, the company also completed the initial production phase of its 100th G150, Gulfstream recently announced. The milestones come approximately 6.5 years after the midsize-cabin speedster first entered service, breaking a number of speed and range records in its bizjet class along the way. Since then, […]

Employees at one of GA’s largest airplane manufacturers recently put their collective might together for a good cause, raising $25,000 in a fundraising effort benefiting the Veterans Airlift Command, a non-profit that transports injured veterans and their families with the help of volunteer pilots and aircraft owners. Cessna made the donation on behalf of its […]

An 80-year-old woman with no pilot’s license or formal training was forced to take the controls and land a Cessna 414 on Monday evening after her 81-year-old pilot husband experienced a medical emergency and lost consciousness in the air. The woman declared an emergency around 5:30 p.m. local time while flying the twin-engine Cessna just […]

Development of Flight Design‘s new four-seater and its CTLSi is fully under way, the company said this week at Sun ‘n Fun. The CTLSi, featuring Rotax’s new electronic-fuel-injected 912 iS, made its first flight this week and will be ready for first deliveries this summer. The 912 iS, announced just a few weeks ago, comes […]

A team backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has found the F-1 engines of the Saturn V rocket that launched the historic Apollo 11 mission more than 50 years ago, and now is planning an attempt to retrieve one or more of the engines from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. According to a statement […]

A jury on Tuesday ordered General Electric to pay $70 million in damages for its role in the August 2008 crash of a Sikorsky S-61N helicopter. The verdict came after the surviving pilot and the family of the co-pilot killed in the crash filed a $177 million lawsuit against General Electric for negligence associated with […]

Cessna Aircraft has signed two deals to produce a range of aircraft in China, the company announced Friday. The first agreement, made with Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), is geared toward the creation of an aircraft service network in China, as well as other joint GA ventures within the country. The second, made with […]

Last spring thousands of aviation enthusiasts and hundreds of companies flocked to the grounds of Sun ‘n Fun to take part in one of general aviation’s biggest annual events. One such company was Lockwood Aircraft Corp., a venture centered upon the one-of-a-kind homebuilt aircraft known as the AirCam and the tight-knit community of aviators who […]

A video showing footage of a U.S. Army AH-64 Apache crash that took place in the mountains of Afghanistan last month has made its way onto the web. The footage, captured in the village of Marzak, shows the helicopter flying low and fast over a U.S. outpost before pulling up, doubling back and descending sharply. […]

SpaceX recently gave NASA astronauts their first real glimpse inside the craft that will eventually ferry them to and from space if the company’s bid to provide one of the first commercial space shuttles is successful. The prototype interior of the Dragon, a spacecraft that has already been awarded a $1.6 billion NASA contract to […]