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The King Air had been airborne for just 30 minutes, en route from Pine Bluff to Bentonville in Arkansas, when it began its descent from 16,500 feet. The weather was clear, and the 3,400-hour private pilot, 72, was on VFR flight following with Razorback Approach at Fort Smith. Nine minutes after leaving 16.5, he told […]

As the FAA gets serious about stemming the threat of UAVs mixing in airspace with general aviation and airline traffic, the agency has appointed two new executives to head its UAS Integration Office. Retired U.S. Air Force major general Marke “Hoot” Gibson has been tapped to become the senior advisor on UAS integration, reporting to […]

The FAA is warning pilots flying in the Southeast that ADS-B and TCAS traffic avoidance technology will be disrupted the entire month of September from Virginia to Florida because of “military activities.” The National Business Aviation Association is complaining that such testing needs to be preceded by more warning. The FAA’s NOTAM on the signal […]

Van’s Aircraft has shipped the 1,000th RV-12 kit, making it one of the most successful light sport aircraft to hit the market since its introduction in 2008. Van’s said it has shipped 937 RV-12 kit empennage packages, plus a number of fly-away S-LSA RV-12s built at the company factory in Oregon. More than 400 RV-12s […]

Continuing the rollout of new avionics options, Robinson Helicopters has introduced Genesys Aerosystems’ HeliSAS (Helicopter Stability Augmentation System) and autopilot as an option for the R44. Earlier this year a flight test and FAA certification program approved the autopilot for the turbine-powered R66. The R44’s autopilot option keeps the same modes and functionality as the […]

Have you ever dreamt of doing some real adventure flying, going into remote, special spots that are best accessed by airplane? Now you can follow avid adventure pilot Ramona Cox, known in the aviation community as SkyChick, in a new series of live broadcasts that will launch on Friday. The live broadcasts are free and […]

Garmin is expanding its online course curriculum with a course designed to help pilots interpret onboard weather radar data. Weather radar is a terrific tool for pilots to avoid adverse conditions in the sky and help them make better weather-related decisions. Garmin’s Weather Radar Operations eLearning Course teaches pilots basic and intermediate weather radar operations, […]

If you’re one of the thousands of people who has held out hope for a reopening of Meigs Field, the beautiful lakefront airport that was conveniently located on Lake Michigan in downtown Chicago, we’re sad to announce that there will likely never again be an airport on Northerly Island. The city of Chicago is holding […]

So far it’s unconfirmed, but the FAA is taking seriously a report that a Piper twin was involved in a midair collision with a UAV over northern Illinois on August 27. Maybe we should be calling it a UFO, since the FAA’s incident report refers to a collision between the Piper Apache and an “unidentified […]

Last week, Textron Aviation handed over the keys of the 45th aircraft in the Wheels Up fleet — the first-ever pink Beechcraft King Air 350i. Beginning service October 1, Pink Plane is the flagship for Wheels Up’s first annual breast cancer awareness initiative to raise funds for the Dubin Breast Center at The Mount Sinai […]