Aviation News

The FAA has issued an emergency Certificate of Authorization (COA) to the National Institute of Standards and Technology of Gaithersburg, Maryland, for the use of a drone to aid in the search for a 23-year-old woman who disappeared recently near Plano, Texas. The request to the FAA came from the Plano Police Department. The emergency […]

The August 2013 crash of a UPS cargo plane short of the runway in Birmingham, Alabama, was caused by a combination of crew errors and pilot fatigue, the National Transportation Safety Board said in its final accident report released on Tuesday. UPS disagrees with the findings, saying the carrier provides adequate rest for crews and […]

An airplane flying a qualifying race in the Sport Class at the National Championship Air Races near Reno, Nevada, crashed yesterday, killing the pilot on board. The pilot was identified by the Reno Air Race Association (RARA) as Lee Behel, one of the founders and the current president of the Sport Class, who was flying […]

In a preliminary accident report of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 released by the Dutch Security Board on Tuesday, investigators said the Boeing 777 “broke up in the air probably as the result of structural damage caused by a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside.” The report did not, however, assign […]

The FAA has selected four unleaded aviation fuels for testing at the William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey, for the first phase of a government and industry initiative to begin phasing out leaded aviation gasoline as early as 2018. Shell and Total have each submitted one unleaded fuel for testing while […]

The pilot of the TBM 900 that crashed in the sea near Jamaica after straying hundreds of miles off course on Friday twice asked Atlanta Center for clearance to a lower altitude because of an unspecified problem, but the controller handling the flight apparently didn’t comprehend the seriousness of the emergency that was unfolding. Minutes […]

Since its entry into service in 1996, the Cessna Model 750 Citation X (it is not the letter “X” but the Roman numeral 10) has occupied a special place in the bizjet world. It put its number in the books as a sleek ­midsize jet that could rocket coast to coast in the United States […]

An unresponsive TBM 900 turboprop on a flight plan Friday from Rochester, New York, to Naples, Florida, triggered the North American Aerospace Defense Command to launch two F-15s in pursuit of the airplane after the pilot failed to respond to communications from air traffic control. Instead of making a turn toward the eastern coast of […]

On schedule and less than six months after the Cessna Citation CJ3+ was first announced, Textron Aviation today announced it has achieved FAA certification for the nine-seat business jet. This latest offering from Cessna is an upgrade to the CJ3, with a new avionics system and increased range capabilities. The CJ3+ is certified for single […]

The newest inductees into the Air Show Hall of Fame include familiar aerobatics performers who have been thrilling show crowds in familiar airplanes for many, many decades. Gene Soucy, Chuck Newcomb and the AeroShell Aerobatic Team will be formally recognized at the International Council of Air Shows Chairman’s Banquet on December 11 at the Rio […]