Aviation News

During World War II, North American P-51 Mustangs were flying en masse from the United States to Europe to join the Allies in the fight. Today, more than 70 years after the war, it is extremely rare to see P-51s follow the same route. However, this week, Lee Lauderback, the owner and chief pilot of […]

All of the drone regulation legislation that has been tossed around the senate recently has not escaped the notice of drone and aviation industry leaders, as demonstrated in an open letter to Congress from 13 groups including the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, Academy of Model Aeronautics, Commercial Drone Alliance and others. “We believe legislation […]

Signature Flight Support’s Chicago Executive airport facility donated time and personnel support this week to sponsor a four-day event called “Ageless Aviation Dreams,” named after the parent non-profit organization. The ageless event offered Chicago-area veterans an opportunity to experience the thrill of a dream flight from the front cockpit of a 1942 PT-17 Boeing Stearman, […]

NASA says a new quiet supersonic passenger jet it has been designing alongside Lockheed Martin would create a soft “thump” heard on the ground rather than the bone-rattling sonic boom that led to the original U.S. prohibition on supersonic flight over land back in the early 1970s. NASA cleared a “significant milestone” last Friday with […]

Closely following the National Transportation Safety Board’s March release of an investigative report into deficiencies in the pilot weather reporting system, the Board yesterday published a three-page safety alert – SA 064 – designed to remind aviators of the identified weaknesses in the current Pirep system while encouraging them to help create better reports because […]

The departure of China Southern Flight 380 was delayed on Tuesday after an 80-year-old woman wanted a little reassurance that her flight would be safe. While reports of her accuracy vary, the woman allegedly threw nine coins at the engine of the Airbus A320 twin-jet and that led to airline personnel evacuating the entire plane […]

A new workhorse 10-seat single-engine turboprop is on the verge of hitting the market after India’s Mahindra Aerospace announced U.S. and Australian certification of the Airvan 10. With a price of around $1.7 million, the utility turboprop is well suited in parts of the world where avgas is hard or impossible to come by. It […]

Diamond Aircraft has delivered the first DA62 diesel twin with the new Garmin G1000 NXi avionics system to a U.S. customer. LifeStyle Aviation, a Diamond dealer on the East Coast, announced the delivery to North Carolina businessman Mike Case, who said he decided to move up from older general aviation airplanes he’s owned to the […]

Amazon has made the next leap toward a future reality in which drones drop recently-ordered goodies off in your yard, filing a patent for a “multi-level fulfillment center for unmanned aerial vehicles” with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent filing emerged on June 22. “A multi-level (ML) fulfillment center is designed to accommodate […]

EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, is just a few weeks away, with day and night airshows, special aviation-related events and vendors from far and wide. One of the largest hangar displays at the Wittman Regional Airport is Corona, California-based Aircraft Spruce and Specialty Company. While the company brings a sizable stock of supplies to the […]