Aviation News

A group of RV pilots have set an unofficial world record for formation flight after a group of 49 Van’s airplanes overflew Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday before the start of Chiefs-Raiders game. KC Flight, Kansas City’s largest home-grown civilian formation team, organized the world record attempt, which must still be verified before the […]

An announcement on Lao Airlines’ Facebook page yesterday offered condolences to the “family, friends, colleagues and relatives” of the people aboard Flight QV301, an ATR 72 twin turboprop designed for up to 74 passengers that crashed on Wednesday on its way from Vientiane to Pakse, Laos. The airplane was expected to land just before 6 […]

Even though Redbird decided to cut short its $1 avgas promotion, the company will follow through on a promise by reinstating the offer for a special event. The Society of Aviation and Flight Educators (SAFE) is holding its Pilot Proficiency Project event the weekend of October 26-27 in San Marcos, Texas, and Redbird will revive […]

After a couple of years of slowed production numbers, Embraer is experiencing healthy growth of its executive jet products. The Brazilian business and commercial jet producer delivered nearly twice the number of light jets in the third quarter compared with last year. Twenty-five light jets were delivered, more than half of which were Phenom 300s. […]

At AOPA Summit Cirrus Aircraft introduced its new lineup of Generation 5 SR22s. While there aren’t any game changing upgrades, the company has followed course by giving new customers a number of quality of life improvements. For our money, the biggest improvement comes with the introduction of new brakes. The lighter and cooler-running brakes by […]

The vacation for former AOPA president and CEO Craig Fuller was a short one. On Friday the Redbird Flight Simulations Board elected Fuller as chairman of the board. We had reported last month that Fuller had been named to the board in order to devote additional energy to Redbird’s expansion plans, including mergers and new […]

Mooney confirmed today that it plans to resume aircraft production in January at its factory in Kerrville, Texas, after a five-year absence from the market. The move is being made possible by an undisclosed investment from a mysterious California company called Soaring America Corp. Reports from a Chinese news source last week indicated that Meijing […]

You may recall a story from last year where a 16-year-old student pilot soloed three different types of aircraft on his birthday. Yesterday, for his 17th birthday, Drew Gryder decided to up the ante. Gryder managed to complete the checkrides for his single- and multi-engine private ratings and second-in-command type ratings for the Douglas DC-3 […]

As the partial government shutdown drags on into its third week, aircraft manufacturers, brokers and dealers are still being hamstrung by the closure of the FAA registration office in Oklahoma City,which is preventing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of aircraft sales transactions from closing. Aviation leaders, exasperated by Washington’s inaction to remedy the situation, […]

As the FAI World Aerobatics Championship began this weekend at the North Texas Regional Airport/Perrin Field near Sherman, Texas, the aerobatic community tragically lost one of its own. Former FAI Advanced World Champion Glen Dell died in an accident at an airshow in Secunda, South Africa. Video footage shows Dell’s Red Bull Extra 300 in […]