Aviation News

Flying magazine once again this year is sponsoring the Wings & Wheels show at New Jersey’s Caldwell Airport outside New York City, an event that helps raise money for the New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum located at Teterboro Airport. The two-day show, scheduled for this Saturday and Sunday, June 15 and 16, […]

Belite Aircraft, makers of the popular Chipper and Chipper 2 single-engine aircraft kits, said their facility on the northeast side of the air capital in Wichita was destroyed late Saturday night by fire. The blaze apparently began when “the dust collection system on our CNC router was working overtime making parts for kits,” according to […]

The final nomination vote of Steve Dickson, President Trump’s nominee to run the FAA, has been delayed while a Senate committee investigates the nominee’s role in a previously unreported whistleblower complaint filed by a Delta Air Lines Airbus 330 pilot while Dickson was still Delta Airline’s senior vice president of flight operations. Dickson’s Senate nomination […]

United Technologies Corp (UTC) plans to acquire Raytheon Company and combine its aerospace business with Raytheon to create an enormous company expected to be worth $120 billion—the largest merger to take place to date within the aerospace sector. The deal was announced on Sunday. United Technologies’ aerospace segment has focused on supplying commercial aircraft manufacturers […]

Cirrus Aircraft named Zean Nielsen, a former senior executive with Tesla Motors, James Hardie and Bang & Olufsen, as its new CEO. Nielsen succeeds Cirrus cofounder Dale Klapmeier, who has stepped back to take a more strategic role with manufacturer, which is the number one producer of high-performance piston airplanes for the general aviation market. […]

The Russian Ministry of Transport’s initial findings into the May 5 Sukhoi Superjet accident at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport said the crew received a windshear alert in the final minutes of the flight. Moments later, Aeroflot Flight 1492 landed hard on Runway 24 Left and bounced several times before bursting into flames. Forty-one people on board […]

Kent Holsinger learned to fly to fulfill a dream—and he intends to use that skill to illustrate the marvelous landscapes of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and California—and the resources they hold—through an attempt at the speed record between the highest airport in the continental United States (Leadville, Colorado) and the lowest (Furnace Creek Airport at […]

The editors of Flying Magazine are excited to announce the launch of FlyingTV.com, an on-demand video service offering 24/7 access to a vast library of more than 700 high-definition aviation titles including original series, live events, historic footage and more, all accessible from viewers’ smartphones, computers, tablets and TVs. This exclusive programming was developed in […]

The event took years to plan, months to prepare, weeks to position and practice—and one day to execute. On the early evening of June 5, 2019, as clouds brooded over the Normandy countryside, a formation of Douglas C-47s and other DC-3 variants delivered on the mission to re-create a critical paratrooper drop commemorating the 75th […]

Inflight internet provider Gogo announced plans to bring 5G data service to the North American market starting in 2021. The new 5G air-to-ground (ATG) service is designed to power faster inflight Wi-Fi for business jets and turboprops as well as airline customers in the United States and Canada even on smaller regional jets. Gogo says […]