Aviation News

Dynon Avionics has added data logging to its SkyView integrated glass panel avionics, an upgrade that allows users to record and store up to 150 hours of flight and engine data. Best of all, data logging is included in SkyView firmware Version 5.1, a free upgrade for SkyView owners. Data logging will be especially useful […]

Ecuador’s Mariscal Sucre International Airport, considered one of the most dangerous in Latin America because of its high altitude and boxed-in location in the center of crowded Quito, is closing next month to make way for a new international airport about 12 miles northeast of the city. Landing at Ecuador’s capital has long been considered […]

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he plans to leave the Obama Administration as soon as a successor can be confirmed, a process that should take about two months. In an interview with the Associated Press, LaHood said he told President Obama a week after the November election it was time to move on but added […]

As related in the accompanying video, Gram Hill thought it would be fun to take his girlfriend for a flight last New Year’s Eve and watch the local fireworks from 1,200 feet. At around 11:15 p.m. local time, they took off from Craig Airport in his rented Cessna Skyhawk, circling his hometown of Jacksonville, Florida. […]

A new look has been bestowed upon the Memphis Belle (The Movie), the B-17 Flying Fortress used as the platform for the 1990 movie Memphis Belle, a fictionalized depiction of the airplane’s final mission. The B-17 is still in service and is operated by the Liberty Foundation, which uses the airplane to educate the public […]

Viewers of Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show on Comedy Central are not accustomed to tuning in to learn about high-tech aviation developments. But in the episode linked here, Stewart conducts a lengthy (and amusing) discussion on unmanned flight with former F/A-18 Navy pilot “Missy” Cummings (callsign: “Shrew”), who is currently an associate professor of aeronautics […]

A New Jersey couple is lucky to be alive after ditching their single-engine Piper Cherokee Six in the frigid Hudson River on Sunday night about five miles north of the George Washington Bridge. Yonkers police officers responded to 911 calls by boat, rescuing the couple about 20 minutes after the airplane went into the water. […]

The Cirrus SR20 that deployed its whole airplane recovery parachute last week in Danbury, Connecticut, did so after making a classic mistake that continues to top the list of general aviation accident causes. According to a preliminary report released by the National Transportation Safety Board on Friday, the airplane was on approach to Runway 26 […]

A powerful Antarctic storm with 100-mph winds and heavy snow is impeding rescue efforts for the crew of a Canadian Twin Otter. The de Havilland twin turboprop is assumed to have gone down in mountains at roughly 13,000 feet above sea level Wednesday night on a flight from the South Pole to an Italian base […]

The NTSB on Thursday said the Boeing 787 Dreamliner battery that caught fire earlier this month in Boston shows evidence of thermal runaway, a serious condition in which an increase in temperature causes progressively hotter temperatures. Still unclear is the question of which occurred first, the thermal runaway or a short circuit in the battery […]