Aviation News

Authorities in London are investigating a possible collision between an airliner and a drone last weekend. British Airways Flight BA727 was approaching Heathrow on Sunday afternoon when something the pilot believes to be a drone struck the front of the airplane. The Airbus A320 landed safely, with no significant damage to the airliner, but authorities […]

The night of April 14, an NCR corporate jet departed from the Meridian FBO at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport, marking the Corporate Angel Network’s 50,000th cancer patient flight since it was founded in 1981. Alongside NCR executives, 1-year-old cancer patient Baron Yerby and his parents, Caroline and Jonathan, flew home to Atlanta for free on […]

Cash prizes have been big motivators in aviation. The first flights across the Atlantic, the first man-powered flight, the first flight into space by a nongovernmental program — to name a few — were brought about, or at the very least hurried along, by the lure of a big payday. Not to say that honor […]

The following is excerpted from The Vanishing of Flight MH370 by Richard Quest, Berkley Publishing. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 — with 239 people aboard — departed from Kuala Lumpur during the late evening of March 7, 2014, bound for Beijing, China, and has never been seen since. Despite the largest aviation search in history, virtually […]

Gulfstream has mated the wing and fuselage of the first G600 flight test airplane at its Savannah, Georgia, production center as the company prepares the clean-sheet large-cabin business jet for its first flight later this year. That’s slightly ahead of the original program timeline, which called for the G600’s first flight early next year. Gulfstream […]

The families of victims killed when a Germanwings copilot deliberately crashed an airliner in the French Alps are suing the U.S. flight school that trained him, claiming it failed to properly screen his medical background. The suit, filed on behalf of more than 80 families of victims killed on Flight 9525, alleges the Airline Training […]

Icon Aircraft says its controversial customer agreement — a 40-page document that the first 100 buyers of the A5 light sport amphibian will be required to sign before taking delivery of their new airplanes — was really all about limiting the effects of crippling product liability, which the company says has negatively impacted the general […]

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At a news conference at the Sun ‘n Fun International Fly-In and Expo, Sporty’s introduced a breakdown assistance program to aid pilots stuck with mechanical issues at unfamiliar airports. Through its association with Mike Busch’s Savvy Aircraft Maintenance Management, the Breakdown Assistance Program allows pilots to call a toll-free number any time, day and night, […]

MyGoFlight, maker of iPad kneeboards, mounts and flight bags, teamed up with Sun ‘n Fun, Women in Aviation and the AOPA Foundation to launch a new pilot-creation initiative that companies of all sizes can participate in — and it’s pushing for the rest of the industry to join in. The new initiative, coined Pilot One³, […]