Aviation News

President Obama’s choice to head the National Transportation Safety Board is winning unanimous praise in aviation circles, and for good reason. Christopher Hart, an NTSB board member since 2009, is an active GA pilot who holds a commercial license with multi-engine and instrument ratings. He will succeed Deborah Hersman, who left the NTSB to head […]

Quicksilver has received the S-LSA airworthiness certificate from the FAA for its factory-built Sport S2SE. The factory assembled two-seat LSA is now ready to be delivered to customers around the country through three facilities in Temecula, California, Reserve, Louisiana, and Rochester, Minnesota. Developed from Quicksilver’s popular ultralight designs, which have been around since the early […]

The pilot in the left seat of the Piper Arrow was a 33,000-hour ATP; his right-seat companion had a private ticket and less than 200 hours. The two took off from Racine, Wisconsin, on a midsummer afternoon and headed northward, just off the western shore of Lake Michigan. There were scattered clouds at 3,400 feet […]

Pilots at the Recreational Aviation Foundation have reason to celebrate after achieving two big wins during the past couple of weeks. California and South Carolina have both adopted legislative language that provides greater opportunities for backcountry flying. The Recreational Use Statute in the two states has been amended to include aviation activities, providing landowners protection […]

It’s been a long time coming, but Cessna’s speediest single-engine piston airplane, the all-composite, high performance TTx, which was developed out of the Columbia 400, has achieved a sign-off from the FAA that allows its pilots to fly in known icing conditions. The approval for flight into known icing, or FIKI for short, was achieved […]

Less than two weeks after Bombardier got the sign-off from Transport Canada for its Challenger 350 super-midsize business jet, the FAA has given its nod to the certification of the new model. The announcement came just over one year after the Montreal-based company announced the new program, which is a modified version of the Challenger […]

A passenger was killed and the captain nearly struck by a bullet on Tuesday night as gunmen opened fire on an airliner landing at the main airport in Peshawar, Pakistan. According to news reports, a female passenger sitting next to her daughter died in the attack and two flight attendants were injured when at least […]

Michael Whitaker, the FAA’s Deputy Administrator in charge of NextGen implementation, told a Senate committee yesterday that the agency has made “significant progress” in a number of key technology areas, stressing that the 2020 ADS-B equipment mandate is not in jeopardy of slipping. Whitaker told members of the Senate Commerce Committee that the construction of […]

The FAA cleared the way for deliveries of the ultra-fast Cessna Citation X+ this week after it granted certification to the speedy midsize bizjet. With a top speed of Mach 0.935 (536 ktas), the Citation X+ has now displaced the Gulfstream G650 — which has a max speed of Mach 0.925 — as the world’s […]

A second flying example of the World War II-era de Havilland Mosquito flew for the first time in 48 years as Reno race pilot Steve Hinton lifted off in the restored bomber on June 16 from Victoria International Airport on Vancouver Island in far western Canada. The newly completed de Havilland 98 MK.35 is a […]