Megan Elliott

The night of April 14, an NCR corporate jet departed from the Meridian FBO at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport, marking the Corporate Angel Network’s 50,000th cancer patient flight since it was founded in 1981. Alongside NCR executives, 1-year-old cancer patient Baron Yerby and his parents, Caroline and Jonathan, flew home to Atlanta for free on […]

Known for its challenging airstrip, which begins at the base of a hill and ends on a beach, the Gustaf III Airport at St. Bart’s is a hot spot for planespotters in the Caribbean. Last week, photographer Sebastien Politano shot 360-degree footage of another photographer who appears to have barely ducked below an oncoming Cessna […]

MyGoFlight, maker of iPad kneeboards, mounts and flight bags, teamed up with Sun ‘n Fun, Women in Aviation and the AOPA Foundation to launch a new pilot-creation initiative that companies of all sizes can participate in — and it’s pushing for the rest of the industry to join in. The new initiative, coined Pilot One³, […]

Hartzell Engine Technologies (HET) announced its acquisition of Sky-Tec — a manufacturer of aircraft starters and solenoids — today at Sun ‘n Fun. Adding solenoids to its portfolio, HET will extend its reach to the Lycoming engine market, while enhancing its product offerings with Sky-Tec’s starters. “Sky-Tec has a strong position on Lycoming engines, and […]

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High-school science teacher Ross McCurdy is planning the first transcontinental flight using aviation biofuel in a certified light aircraft. McCurdy will launch from North Central Airport near Providence, Rhode Island, in a Cessna 182 around April 16 to fly 2,500 nautical miles to Santa Monica, California; he’ll depart from Santa Monica on Earth Day, April […]

In a final accident report investigating the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525, the Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses (BEA) cites weaknesses in detecting and reporting mental illnesses in pilots. On March 24, 2015, Andreas Lubitz waited until he was alone in the cockpit, locked the cabin door and deliberately crashed the aircraft into the French Alps, […]

Pilot and environmentalist Jeremy Rowsell is planning a groundbreaking flight for August 2016 — traveling 3,000 miles from San Francisco to Anchorage, Alaska, in a plane fueled by plastic waste. Rowsell was inspired to embark on the project after seeing devastating plastic pollution while flying over the Pacific Ocean. “I believe that the problem can […]

A pothole measuring 8 feet by 2 feet appeared on Runway 13-31 at LaGuardia Airport yesterday, leaving just one open runway and bottlenecking departing and arriving flights for over an hour. Around 3 p.m., a pilot on a departing flight from LGA reported the damage. On air traffic control recordings, the pilot is heard telling […]

Two years after the disappearance of Flight MH370, a potential clue washed ashore on a sandbar in Mozambique this weekend. Australian Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester told parliament that, while it’s “too early to speculate the origin of the debris at this stage,” the metal chunk was found in a location that’s consistent […]