Aviation News

Last week’s massive flooding in India has killed at least 1,000 and stranded thousands more. The New York Times reports civilian and military helicopters are participating in the rescue and recovery operation. On Tuesday, a Russian-built Mi-17 helicopter crashed into a mountain while returning from a mission in the area of the Kedarnath Valley, some […]

The twin-engine Seminole is the latest of Piper’s offerings to receive type certificate approval from the FAA for the integrated Garmin G1000 avionics system. G1000-equipped Seminoles are expected to start rolling out of the Vero Beach, Florida, factory next month, and Piper will have one on display at AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, set for July […]

An F-16 crashed shortly before 7 p.m. local time on Wednesday into the desert west of Phoenix, not far from its home field at Luke Air Force Base. The single-engine fighter jet was reportedly on a training mission, carrying a student and an instructor. Both pilots, whose names have not been made public, ejected safely […]

Cirrus today announced the expansion of its Grand Forks, North Dakota, factory, the site of a brand new autoclave oven that will be used in the production of the Cirrus Jet. Modifications to the Grand Forks facility began in May and the autoclave was delivered today, Cirrus said. The building housing the autoclave will be […]

Chip Yates, the pilot who last summer broke the world speed record for flight in an electric airplane while flying his specially modified LongEZ, aims to become this century’s Charles Lindbergh by crossing the Atlantic solo on battery power alone. For the 3,500-mile nonstop journey, Yates will need to overcome the greatest obstacle to electric-powered […]

This video is almost sure to start a lively debate on safety. A flight instructor and student in a Robinson R22 with an onboard video camera are shown flying over a group of RC modelers, and one of the men notes that a P-51 scale model has crashed into the treetops. They decide to descend […]

“You should have seen it before we started,” said Taigh Ramey of Vintage Aircraft and Stockton Field Aviation Museum in Stockton, California. He was talking about the ultra-rare Lockheed PV-2D long-range patrol bomber restored at the museum over the past three years. And with the series of before-and-after photos on the museum website, you can. […]

It’s the scenario all airline pilots prepare for but hope they never experience: an engine failure on takeoff. In this case, the right engine of a Thomas Cook Airbus A330 exploded on Monday afternoon during the takeoff run from Manchester Airport in England. The crew’s quick reaction keeps the airliner more or less in the […]

Icon Aircraft, the developer of the Icon A5 amphibious light sport aircraft, has received a $60 million cash infusion from undisclosed investors in North America, Europe and Asia, “led by a top-notch privately held strategic investor from China,” according to Icon’s CEO and founder Kirk Hawkins. Icon maintains full control of the management of the […]

The FAA and NTSB are investigating a crash in San Luis Obispo, California, on Monday afternoon in which the pilot, whose name has not been released, was killed. Local news outlets reported that the airplane was a twin-engine Cessna 337 Skymaster. The pilot reportedly made a mayday call to the tower controllers just after taking […]