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The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has announced the winner of its R. A. “Bob” Hoover Trophy. Legendary actor and passionate aviator Harrison Ford, who received the award last year, will present the trophy to Clay Lacy at an event on March 20. Lacy’s legacy in aviation is not likely to be matched. He has […]

Virgin Galactic has achieved another successful flight, bringing more people to greater speeds and heights in space. Chief pilot Dave Mackay and copilot Michael “Sooch” Masucci launched VSS Unity, also known as SpaceShipTwo, from WhiteKnightTwo, the quadjet cargo airplane that carried the spaceship on February 22 from the Mojave Air & Space Port in southern […]

The Cirrus Life. Now at jet speed. That’s the tagline Cirrus Aircraft created after the market introduction in late 2016 of the SF50 Vision Jet, a product that is positioned as an ideal step-up airplane for a competent owner of a Cirrus SR22 and who already well understands and embraces all that life entails. The […]

U.S.-registered aircraft crossing the North Atlantic is hardly new, but smaller jet and turboprop airplanes are making many more crossings than even a decade ago. Because some of these pilots fly primarily in domestic airspace, they might not have experienced some of the intricacies needed to safely operate from countries where English is not the […]

Cirrus Aircraft had a very good year. The manufacturer announced yesterday that new aircraft deliveries for the piston SR Series reached 380 in 2018, an increase of 7 percent over 2017, and said increased production and deliveries of the Vision Jet, with 63 delivered last year, resulted in just shy of 100 Vision Jets now […]

At its annual State of the Industry press conference in Washington, D.C., the General Aviation Manufacturers Association released the General Aviation aircraft delivery numbers for 2018. For the first time in five years, all segments of the industry showed increased numbers. GAMA’s chairman and Gulfstream’s president Mark Burns announced an overall increase of 4.7 percent […]

Undecided pilots who are eligible to vote in the Chicago area might want to take a close look at Willie Wilson, who has vowed to reopen Meigs Field, should he be elected. Wilson estimates that the airport, which was located on a 120-acre man-made peninsula adjacent to downtown that is now Northerly Island Park, will […]

The U.S. Aircraft Expo is starting up its 11th season of events with a weekend at the St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport (KPIE) across the bay from Tampa, Florida. The Expo kicks off on Friday February 22 at 10 am at the Signature Flight Support FBO, and there will be an ownership conference at 1 pm. […]

The first race for the 2019 season of the Red Bull Air Race World Championships kicked off last weekend in Abu Dhabi. As in previous years, the race course was set up just off shore from the capitol of the United Arab Emirates, providing thousands of spectators a front row view of the competition. This […]

Nominees for the 2018 Robert J. Collier Trophy comprise a large field of contenders from a diverse array of aviation and aerospace entities, with a total of 11 nominees vying for the prestigious annual award this year. Nominees for 2019 include the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (AGCAS), Bell V-280 Valor tiltrotor, Boeing T-X jet […]