Aviation News

In response to the United Airlines debacle from earlier this week, FlyOtto is offering one free flight to the beleaguered airline in an effort to highlight the convenience and efficiency of general aviation flying. “For the amount United was willing to compensate four passengers ($800 each, for a total of $3,200) to make room for […]

The FAA has adopted a new airworthiness directive, effective Wednesday, in response to a report of an event aboard an American Champion Aircraft Corp. airplane. Specifically, a pilot reported dealing with a stuck aileron during a flight in his Super Decathlon (model no. 8KCAB), and while he was able to “un-stick” the aileron and land […]

This morning, officials from the European Aviation Safety Agency handed over the Type Certificate for the GameBird GB1 to Bentonville, Arkansas-based Game Composites. Designed by German aerobatic champion Philipp Steinbach, the GameBird is the first aerobatic airplane certified since 2011. The FAA certification effort for the GB1 has been conducted concurrently and Steinbach expects the […]

Diamond Aircraft surprised showgoers at Aero Friedrichshafen in Germany by unveiling three versions of the new DA50 high-performance single, all of them powered by diesel engines. Perhaps the biggest surprise was that the new flagship singles won’t be powered by engines sourced from Diamond’s own Austro Engines subsidiary, but rather by French producer Safran SMA. […]

Continental Motors thinks some aviation maintenance technicians missed the point of an engine service bulletin — SB05-8A — first issued in 2005. The document announced a replacement camshaft that Continental said would improve the operation of a variety of well-known engines like the IO-470 and the IO-550, used on everything from the Cessna 182 to […]

At a press conference at last week’s Sun ‘n Fun International Fly-in and Expo in Lakeland, Florida, John and Martha King, along with King Schools CEO Barry Knutilla, announced a product designed to ease the complex process of keeping track of the progress of flight students. The Cessna Training Application (CTA) will help instructors at […]

Continental Motors announced that it has received a supplemental type certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration and the European Aviation Safety Agency for Cessna 172 models powered by its CD-155 diesel engine. The STC also allows for the installation of the Garmin G1000 integrated avionics system. “This STC clears the way for European and American […]

The bankruptcy filing of flight training company Mazzei Flying Service at Fresno’s Yosemite International Airport at the end of March halted nearly all of the Part 141 school’s flight training activities. The shutdown affected about 60 fledgling pilots particularly hard — most of them Taiwanese students— because they’d paid for the entirety of their professional […]

The business aviation industry believes 17 years is too long between updates about practical issues such as crew duty days, rest periods and other fatigue-related topics. The National Business Aviation Association, in cooperation with the John D. Odegaard School of Aerospace at the University of North Dakota, has commissioned a new survey to better understand […]

A Sunday United Airlines flight from Chicago to Louisville has become a new source of controversy for the company that was barely done with PR fallout from March’s viral leggings incident. In multiple videos shared on social media, security officials can be seen forcibly removing and dragging a man from the United airplane while his […]