Aircraft

Two men have been arrested in New York after one of the drones they were flying allegedly came within 800 feet of a New York Police Department helicopter early Tuesday morning. The helicopter was flying at 2,000 feet near the George Washington Bridge at approximately 12:15 a.m. when one of the two drones piloted by […]

Talk about a close encounter. The crew of a UTair Boeing 767-300 preparing to land on Runway 02 at Barcelona-El Prat Airport on Saturday got a big surprise just a few moments before touchdown when an Airbus A340 taxied across the runway, directly intersecting the 767’s landing path. The Aerolíneas Argentinas A340 was headed for […]

On the 77th anniversary of Amelia Earhart’s daring attempt to circumnavigate the globe, another Amelia Earhart is setting out on the same journey. Amelia Rose Earhart — no relation to Amelia Mary Earhart — set off on June 26 from Oakland, California, in a Pilatus PC-12 NG to fly 24,300 nautical miles in 17 stops […]

The FAA is unlikely to meet its 2015 deadline for integrating UAVs into the National Airspace System as the agency grapples with a number of significant safety and certification issues, according to a report by the Department of Transportation’s Office of the Inspector General. The 33-page report notes that the FAA has yet to reach […]

Textron AirLand’s new military jet prototype, the twin-engine Scorpion, is breezing through the development phase and is now ready to make its international debut. With more than 105 hours of flight-testing on its prototype, the Wichita, Kansas-based company plans to send the Scorpion on its way on a multi-day, 4,700-nm flight from Wichita to RAF […]

The HondaJet certification program progressed one important step further as Honda Aircraft Company’s test pilot, Warren Gould, pushed the throttles forward at the end of last week on the first production HondaJet at the headquarters at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina. The first flight lasted 84 minutes, during which the twinjet climbed […]

We at Flying magazine are excited to announce the official launch of the first-ever event in our 87-year history. Hosted in partnership with Lift Event Management, Flying will hold this premier aviation event, known as the Flying Aviation Expo, in beautiful Palm Springs, California, this October 31 through November 2. The expo is shaping up […]

Quicksilver has received the S-LSA airworthiness certificate from the FAA for its factory-built Sport S2SE. The factory assembled two-seat LSA is now ready to be delivered to customers around the country through three facilities in Temecula, California, Reserve, Louisiana, and Rochester, Minnesota. Developed from Quicksilver’s popular ultralight designs, which have been around since the early […]

It’s been a long time coming, but Cessna’s speediest single-engine piston airplane, the all-composite, high performance TTx, which was developed out of the Columbia 400, has achieved a sign-off from the FAA that allows its pilots to fly in known icing conditions. The approval for flight into known icing, or FIKI for short, was achieved […]

Less than two weeks after Bombardier got the sign-off from Transport Canada for its Challenger 350 super-midsize business jet, the FAA has given its nod to the certification of the new model. The announcement came just over one year after the Montreal-based company announced the new program, which is a modified version of the Challenger […]