Aviation News

Aviationweather.gov is getting a whole new look and feel today, but don’t worry, the National Weather Service promises that all of the content previously available on the site will still be there — just with updated page layouts and menus. The site underwent a makeover to bring its look in line with sister site weather.gov, […]

A closer examination of satellite data confirms that missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, ending a baffling weeks-long mystery and focusing the search for the Boeing 777’s black boxes in the area off the southwest coast of Australia. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said at a press conference this morning […]

In an effort to address the cause for a high percentage of fatal aircraft accidents, loss of control in flight, the FAA is requesting comments regarding two advisory circulars: AC 120-109A, and AC 120-UPRT. While the ACs are primarily addressed to air carriers flying under Part 121 regulations, pilots flying any type of airplane can […]

Flying editor-in-chief Robert Goyer and contributing editor Les Abend took to the mainstream airwaves following the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to lend their expertise to the conversation. Abend, a senior 777 pilot for a major U.S. airline, discussed the complexities of the systems on the Boeing jet in more than a dozen cable […]

Returning from a year of sequestration, the Blue Angels squadron will take to the skies at the inaugural Los Angeles County Air Show, set to take place this weekend at the General William J. Fox Airfield in the outskirts of Lancaster, California. The team of six F/A-18 Hornets will perform their nail-biting formation show, which […]

The Dynon Avionics engineering team in Woodinville, Washington, has added touchscreen capability to its SkyView avionics suite. Available for experimental and light sport aircraft only, SkyView Touch complements the existing hard-button knob controls, including the autopilot panel, rather than replacing them. It offers pilots a choice of interface. “Touch when you want it; turbulence when […]

Accident investigators are reviewing amateur video that shows a Piper Aerostar twin performing extreme low-level maneuvers over a Colorado neighborhood moments before crashing. The pilot, the sole occupant in the airplane, was killed instantly when the Piper crashed in a fireball next to homes on the outskirts of Aurora. Nobody on the ground was hurt. […]

Search aircraft and ships are headed to a location in the southern Indian Ocean where Australian officials said satellite images show debris that could be from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Officials cautioned that is unclear at this point whether two large pieces of debris belong to the Boeing 777 that disappeared on March 8 […]

Two people were killed and one was critically injured on Tuesday morning when a news helicopter crashed and burned next to Seattle’s Space Needle. Two cars were destroyed in the crash as flames and plumes of black smoke poured from the burning wreckage about 50 yards from the base of the Space Needle, according to […]

Cessna and Beechcraft are officially part of the same company, the newly formed Textron Aviation, after parent company Textron on March 14 closed its acquisition of Beech Holdings LLC, the parent of Beechcraft Corp. Cessna and Beechcraft together recorded about $4.6 billion in revenues in 2013, making the combination a general aviation powerhouse. The $1.4 […]