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The 109 passengers and seven crew members of an Ameristar Charters flight out of Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, Michigan, are all safe after their airplane slid off the runway on Wednesday. The Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball team and staff were among those on board, as they were leaving for the Big Ten tournament; however, […]

Johnson County Executive Airport (KOJC) in Olathe, Kansas, suffered major damage after a severe weather event tore through the area on Monday night. An entire row of T-hangars was completely demolished and the airplanes that were parked inside were piled randomly near the site where the hangar used to protect them. Around a dozen other […]

Members of the International Helicopter Safety Team said Wednesday at the Heli-Expo show in Dallas that they’re encouraged by a trend that shows the total number of accidents has declined in the 50 countries around the globe the IHST surveyed. In the United States, for instance, total accidents in 2016 declined to 106 from 121 […]

Not long ago, fleet operators like PHI worked hard just to keep track of their helicopters and aircraft. After Tuesday’s announcement by Sikorsky of its partnership with PHI and Metro Aviation to begin sharing real-time data on the health of PHI’s aircraft anywhere in the world, the game has changed. The triad team of companies […]

Bell Helicopter president Mitch Snyder today called the new FCX-001 concept a “vision of the future” when he pulled back the curtains to show off the mockup at Heli-Expo in Dallas. The sleek new helicopter, reminiscent of an X-plane, features a single pilot seat in the center of the cockpit confirming this next-generation machine will […]

The third and final Pilatus PC-24 prototype, P03, completed its maiden flight this week, marking a significant milestone in the medium-light jet’s development program. P03 took off from Buochs airfield in central Switzerland Monday morning and flew for 2 hours and 5 minutes. “I’m delighted to have seen the P03 in the air today,” said […]

New York Sen. Charles Schumer is calling on the National Transportation Safety Board to launch a study into a spate of small plane crashes around New York City. “We’re only a few months into 2017 and already we’ve seen two small plane crashes here in the New York metro area,” Schumer (D-N.Y.) said at a […]

XTI Aircraft Co. has made several modifications to its TriFan 600, a futuristic VTOL aircraft that is currently in the design phase, announcing it has partnered with Bye Aerospace Inc. to produce a full-scale hybrid/electric prototype of the TriFan. “First, with the engineering expertise of the team at Bye Aerospace, this first prototype will be […]

For the 28th year, thousands of female aviation enthusiasts gathered to attend the three-day International Women in Aviation Conference, which was held this time at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. “This year’s conference reflected the cutting edge of innovation and passion for aviation,” said Women in Aviation International’s president, Peggy Chabrian. […]

Anyone who offers up hard numbers for the drone population in the United States is merely guessing, especially since the FAA’s new Part 107 rule took effect last year. While the precise number isn’t really known, the trend is certainly clear: there will be more and more drones from now on. What worries people who […]