Aviation News

When Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA) tried to pass his FAA reauthorization bill in 2016, he found resistance in Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO), who is a general aviation pilot. However, after making some changes, including the elimination of GA user fees, Shuster’s 2017 effort made a believer out of Graves, who heralded the 21st Century AIRR […]

In case you’re still worried about the January 1, 2020, deadline for ADS-B, the FAA’s Equip 2020 Team is here to help. The joint government and industry group, designed to encourage and help aircraft owners equip with ADS-B Out before the deadline, is hosting a live Twitter chat to address your general aviation questions and […]

George Antoniadis wouldn’t have missed this “marriage” for anything in the world. The President and CEO of PlaneSense has the distinction of being the owner of the first Pilatus PC-24 (https://www.pilatus-aircraft.com/) business jet, and so he made the journey to the manufacturer’s head office in Stans, Switzerland, to watch firsthand as his plane received its […]

The collaboration between ForeFlight and Jeppesen, announced in May, is now bearing fruit as Jeppesen’s charts have become available as an option for ForeFlight’s mobile app users. The option allows ForeFlight users to view Jeppesen’s departure, arrival and approach charts within the mobile app. Once linked to ForeFlight, Jeppesen’s charts can be viewed in multiple […]

FAA approval of Garmin’s formerly experimental-only G5 electronic flight instrument in certified airplanes represented one of the first examples of a relaxation of regulations aimed at bringing lower-cost safety gear to more airplanes. The G5 display is designed to replace failure-prone mechanical gyro-driven attitude indicators as a standalone primary source of aircraft attitude and turn […]

A 57-year-old New Zealand woman died on Wednesday after she was knocked down by the jet blast from a Boeing 737-800 twin jet taking off from Princess Juliana International Airport in Sint Maarten. According to reports, the woman was one of “several people” holding the airport fence for support when Caribbean Airlines Flight 457 departed […]

One of the most exciting of the many events that will take place at this year’s EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh is the 50th anniversary reunion of Apollo program astronauts. This is expected to be the largest Apollo reunion at Oshkosh since 1994’s “Salute to Apollo,” and Space Day (Friday, July 28) should be a thrill […]

Air Canada Flight AC759 landed at San Francisco International Airport shortly after midnight on Saturday, July 8, approximately 54 minutes late on its journey from Toronto. While the passengers may have been a little irritated by the tardiness, they probably didn’t know at the time just how close they came to being involved in an […]

The U.S. Marine Corps reported yesterday that a KC-130 tanker/transport aircraft attached to the Marine Aerial Refueling and Transport Squadron, crashed into a soybean field about 85 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi, killing all 16 people aboard. The flight originated from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point with personnel from the Marine Forces Reserve headquartered […]

Hartzell Propeller plans to celebrate 100 years of hard work at this year’s AirVenture in Oshkosh. The company has manufactured and currently supports more than 500,000 props, and began with a neighborly back porch conversation between Orville Wright and Robert Hartzell a century ago for the wooden blades used on the Wright flyer. TRW bought […]