Aviation News

Flying once again is sponsoring the New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame’s “Salute to Veterans” Wings & Wheels show at Essex County Airport in Northern New Jersey, which will be held this year on Saturday October 6 and Sunday October 7. The show will include numerous historic aircraft, including the rare Douglas C-54 “Spirit of […]

European King Air B200 and B300-series operators can now take advantage of Rockwell Collins’ latest touch screen avionics suite – Pro Line Fusion. The Pro Line Fusion retrofit was FAA certified in 2016 and represents the panel delivered with new Beechcraft King Airs coming out of Textron Aviation’s factory in Wichita, Kansas. Installed in the […]

17-year old student pilot Maggie Taraska did a fantastic job during a highly unusual solo flight this weekend at the Beverly Regional Airport (BVY), located just north of the Boston metropolitan area and under Logan International’s (BOS) Class B airspace. The Piper PA-28 Taraska was flying had just lifted off Runway 09, one of two […]

A Delta 757-200 bound for Orlando last Wednesday suffered an uncontained engine failure shortly after takeoff from Atlanta, Georgia (ATL). Delta Flight 1418 returned to ATL after the flight crew shut down the damaged engine, according to the Associated Press and the Orlando Sentinel. An uncontained engine failure occurs when pieces of an operating engine […]

Just a few minutes after sunset on Friday, August 10, a Gulfstream GIV nearly landed on a parallel taxiway at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL). Although no one aboard the aircraft, or on the ground was injured, the incident was eerily similar to one a year ago in which an Air Canada Airbus nearly landed on […]

There’s truly good news for the GA community in this year’s Nall Report and analysis of general aviation accidents; GA pilots are flying more hours and having fewer accidents. The editors of the Joseph T. Nall Report view their goal in gathering and reviewing accident data pretty much the same way they have since the […]

Despite more than 90,000 annual operations, Northern Colorado Regional Airport (FNL) in Loveland has never had the safety benefits of a manned control tower, until now. The Colorado Department of Transportation reports being close to completing a new remote tower project for Loveland, a facility that won’t demand the building of a traditional, expensive tall […]

Piper Aircraft in Vero Beach, Florida, is enjoying its best financial health in well over a decade thanks to increasing demand for its training airplanes used by flight schools around the world to address the growing pilot shortage. But that success is putting a strain on the company to find and retain talented workers, particularly […]

Garmin is bringing safety enhancing capabilities to legacy aircraft models with the approval of its GFC 500 retrofit autopilot STC. The Olathe, Kansas-based company added the Grumman AA-5 series airplanes, which include Traveler, Cheetah and Tiger models, as well as the 140-horsepower Piper PA-28 to the list. The GFC 500 is also available for many […]

We at Flying have written extensively about the apparent pilot shortage, which has caused the airlines to offer major incentives to join their work forces and increase their pay and benefits to make the initial phase of the career more attractive. The lack of qualified pilots has also affected bizav flight departments and helicopter operators. […]