Megan Elliott

Quest Aircraft this week named Robert H. Wells, an executive with more than 40 years of aviation experience, as its new CEO. Wells takes over for retiring CEO Sam Hill. Most recently, Wells spent 15 years with TAG Aviation, where he was CEO. “I am very pleased that an individual of Rob’s caliber and talent […]

The original stone farmhouse of Paul Poberezny, founder of the Experimental Aircraft Association and a prominent figure in the homebuilt aircraft community, was purchased by Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co., in an effort to preserve the estate and countless artifacts and photos inside. More than 100 years old, the estate is located near Wittman Field, […]

Textron Aviation this week announced its Cessna Pilot Center network experienced record growth in 2016. The CPC network formed 24 new partnerships last year, including five international flight schools in Argentina, Colombia, Germany, Canada and Poland, which will use the Cessna Skyhawk 172 in their training programs. “Our commitment to supporting new pilot education and […]

Piper Aircraft announced plans to build 50 Archers for its Beijing-based dealer, China Air Shuttle. The fleet of aircraft will be manufactured and certified at Piper’s Vero Beach, Florida, facility, then shipped to China to be reassembled by China Air Shuttle’s affiliate company in Rizhao, Shandong Province, China. China Air Shuttle will begin to take […]

The FAA has issued temporary flight restrictions that will be in effect for Donald Trump’s inauguration next week, with security measures in effect from January 19 to 21. Throughout the inauguration and events surrounding it, the FAA will modify the Washington Special Flight Rules Area (SFRA) and Washington Metropolitan Flight Restricted Zone (FRZ). Procedures that […]

More than three decades after Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 impacted Mount Illimani in Bolivia, killing all 29 passengers on board, its flight data recorder has been found and turned over to the National Transportation Safety Board for investigation. NTSB investigator Bill English met mountain climbers Dan Futrell and Isaac Stoner at Norwood Memorial Airport […]

New Year’s travelers were hit with long lines and delays at bustling airports Monday, when a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) computer experienced a technology disruption for about four hours. The delay lasted from 5 to 9 p.m. ET, affecting crowded airports across the country, including those in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston […]

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association president Mark Baker this week penned a letter to President-elect Donald Trump addressing the potential economic consequences of a temporary flight restriction (TFR) surrounding Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida. In the area surrounding Trump’s Florida residence, a presidential TFR would affect six airports with a “total economic output […]

Veteran airline captain and aviation analyst Les Abend’s writing has appeared in the pages of Flying for 15 years. On March 7, he’ll debut his first novel, an aviation thriller titled Paper Wings. Paper Wings chronicles the investigation of a mysterious in-flight emergency resulting in passenger fatalities and the forced diversion of Patriot Airlines Flight […]

President-elect Donald Trump is at it again. He took to Twitter on Monday morning to criticize the cost of the Defense Department’s most expensive weapons program, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Trump called the cost of the F-35 program “out of control,” driving jet builder Lockheed Martin’s stock price down 4 percent by midday and […]