Aviation News

AOPA President Mark Baker contacted NBC News to voice the association’s concern that the network’s coverage of a fatal crash in Georgia last week presents a skewed view of general aviation safety. According to a story on AOPA.org, the association told the network that its coverage of a midair collision that killed three people on […]

Pilots attending Flying Aviation Expo at the Palm Springs International Airport can obtain FAA WINGS credit at the show’s numerous safety seminars. Every attendee who participates in a minimum of three safety seminars at the show from October 20 to 22 will receive a certificate to complete the requirements for the knowledge portion of a […]

Engineered Propulsion Systems of Wisconsin has reached the final stage of design for its Graflight 8 diesel engine, freezing the design in preparation for certification. “That does not mean that we will not introduce new elements or refinements in the engine as technologies evolve in the future,” said EPS CEO Michael Fuchs. “Indeed, we have […]

The FAA last week decided it could not ignore the potential safety risks for owners of Samsung’s recently released Galaxy Note7 smartphones. Samsung has urged owners to return all of the 2.5 million Note7s in service because nearly three dozen of the devices have spontaneously burst into flame due to a problem with the phone’s […]

Despite the FAA’s early-August job-vacancy announcement seeking candidates to fill 1,400 trainee controller openings, an effort that netted the agency tens of thousands of applicants, the agency said it won’t overlook another possible pool of ATC experience. The agency took the somewhat unusual step last week of publishing a job announcement specifically aimed at men […]

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says the recurrent training air traffic controllers receive to teach them how to effectively deal with pilots in need of emergency assistance often falls considerably short of any acceptable standard. This is also not the first time the NTSB cited the FAA over inadequate controller training. In a Safety […]

The day has finally come for a World War II veteran to receive the honor she and her fellow Women Airforce Service Pilots so well deserve. The ashes of pilot Elaine Harmon, who died in April 2015 at the age of 95, were laid to rest Wednesday at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. It […]

Hannes Arch, one of the select few pilots in the world to fly in the highly technical Red Bull Air Race series, died yesterday in a helicopter accident in the Austrian Alps. On Thursday evening Arch, who was an avid mountaineer, was flying a Robinson R66 helicopter from the Elberfelderstraße hut, a mountain hut located […]

Ahead of the 2020 ADS-B mandate, ATP Flight School has selected L-3’s Lynx NGT-9000 touch-screen transponder as an ADS-B solution for 100 of its 250 training aircraft for students preparing for airline careers. The Lynx units will be delivered through the rest of this year in ATP’s fleet of Piper and Cessna twin- and single-engine […]

There apparently are many people who want to own and operate a business airplane, but who pass on the opportunity because of the cost, the paperwork, or simply because they know they’ll never use the airplane enough to justify all the work or the money they’ll spend. Partners in Aviation (PIA) and the PIA Co-Ownership […]