Aviation News

As business aviation continues to be buffeted by economic headwinds nearly five years after the start of the global financial crisis, signs of a turnaround have been stubborn to materialize. But the turnaround is coming, experts insist, and maybe sooner than many of us think. At the annual JetNet IQ Global Business Aviation Summit in […]

Senior Editor Stephen Pope yesterday presented staffers and volunteers from the Corporate Angel Network with a 2012 Flying Editors’ Choice Award. CAN Executive Director Peter Fleiss accepted the award at the charity’s headquarters at the Westchester Country Airport in White Plains, New York. Since 1981 the Corporate Angel Network has arranged free flights aboard corporate […]

As the all-electric, solar-powered Solar Impulse is making its way across America, the Midwest has been hit hard with a barrage of violent weather. St. Louis/Lambert Airport in St. Louis, Missouri, is one of the stops on the approximate 2,850 nm journey and suffered extensive damage in a severe storm last week. The storm ripped […]

The Smoky Hill Air National Guard Weapons Range is about 10 miles southwest of Salina Regional Airport (KSLN), and if your travel plans include flying through the area, be advised. On Thursday, June 6 (ironically, the 69th anniversary of D-Day), the Salina Airport Authority will host a safety briefing for pilots concerning this summer’s scheduled […]

The U.S. Air Force is officially on board the iPad bandwagon, with a $9.36 million contract for up to 18,000 of the Apple tablets. Between savings on printing and distributing charts and aircraft manuals, coupled with fuel savings, the Air Force Mobility Command estimates the iPads will save $5.7 million per year over the next […]

Users of aviation’s most popular flight planning and support app now have the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of the software through a new training course from Sporty’s. Sporty’s ForeFlight training program shows users how to use the app through step-by-step instructions that cover everything from how to download ForeFlight to how to […]

The Beechcraft Bonanza holds a coveted spot in aviation history as the longest continually produced airplane of all time. Beechcraft celebrated a significant milestone for the storied airplane on Monday, handing over the 4,000th Model 36 Bonanza, a G36 purchased by a Baltimore, Maryland, commercial real estate firm. In all, Beechcraft has produced more than […]

The speedy Gulfstream G650 and Cessna Citation X might have to get out of the way of this one: A U.S. startup firm has launched a tandem, two-seat “luxury” jet called the Saker S-1 that it says would be the fastest private civilian airplane ever with a top speed of Mach 0.99. Saker Aircraft says […]

Residents of an apartment building in Herndon, Virginia, got a rude surprise on Thursday night as a Cessna 177 Cardinal crashed into their living room around midnight. The residents were asleep at the time of the crash in bedrooms adjacent to the living room when the airplane entered through the roof of the three story […]

The crowd searched the picture perfect blue sky while in search of the planes that were somewhere above. The sound of airplanes approaching from behind caught their attention. Many turned just in time to see the three tiger-striped painted planes shoot overhead while one peeled slightly off and flew out of sight. Several people clapped, […]