Aviation News

Some passengers with window seats aboard a Delta flight got more view than they bargained for over the weekend, when a loose engine cowling came off midflight, prompting an emergency landing. Flight 762 from Atlanta to Chicago was over Tennessee on Sunday afternoon when the airliner hit turbulence and the engine light came on, reports […]

Here is your chance to take a closer look at the Falcon 9 first-stage landing on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean last week. This video shows the impressive touchdown of the first-stage section of the rocket from three different angles, highlighting the accuracy of the spacecraft. Falcon 9’s mission was to fly to space […]

Debby Rihn-Harvey, one of the most successful aerobatic competitors of all time, completed her career as captain of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 last week. With an airplane mostly filled with her friends and family, Rihn-Harvey flew her last leg, SWA Flight 3060, on Thursday from the Valley International Airport (KHRL) in Harlingen, Texas, to […]

First-quarter aircraft shipments figures released by the General Aviation Manufacturers Association point to an industry still being buffeted by economic headwinds nearly eight years after the Great Recession of 2008. All fixed-wing aircraft segments posted declines compared with last year’s first quarter numbers, as reported GA airplane billings dropped 9.5 percent by value to $4 […]

The Project Advisory Committee (PAC) for the Port of Portland has voted for a master plan that aims to significantly shrink the Portland-Troutdale Airport (KTTD), located 10 miles east of the city of Portland, Oregon. The plan calls for the 5,400-foot by 150-foot runway to be cut down to 4,500 by 75 feet in 2020. […]

The Purdue Research Park Aerospace District in West Lafayette, Indiana, announced a partnership that will make the university a sales, maintenance and training center for Italy’s Tecnam, a maker of general aviation piston airplanes. “There is a tremendous challenge of pilot scarcity in U.S. aviation. One of our most important endeavors is to train and […]

The Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday that China is preparing to invest 77 billion yuan ($11.9 billion) in civil aviation infrastructure in 2016, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). “The general aviation sector, especially aircraft research and manufacturing, has became a hot spot of both industrial upgrading and social concern,” said Feng […]

JetAviva, the Austin, Texas-based light jet sales and training specialist, has reached an agreement to buy Kansas Aircraft Corp., a Kansas City-area piston aircraft and turboprop sales broker, creating one of the country’s most formidable light aircraft resale firms. KAC, a former Cessna authorized dealer, was purchased three years ago by Tim and Dianne White, […]

The FAA announced the formation of an advisory committee to guide it on the integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the national airspace, a group that will be led by Intel CEO Brian Krzanich. The committee will help the FAA finalize hotly anticipated regulations for the commercial operation of drones in civil airspace, which […]

In an intimate screening at the Silent Movie Theatre in Los Angeles, the premiere of a short version of what may become a full feature movie based on Rinker Buck’s highly acclaimed memoir Flight of Passage was shared with a full house of viewers. The true story follows Buck and his brother Kernahan, who in […]