Aviation News

The wild nature of heavy metal music and the structured environment of the cockpit appear to be such polar opposites that they would be nearly impossible to combine. Yet Iron Maiden’s singer Bruce Dickinson has done just that. An accomplished pilot, Dickinson has personally flown the English band and its equipment around the world on […]

Less than two weeks after unveiling its newest model, Cessna Aircraft has announced a new name for the Turbo Skylane NXT — which apparently was too close for comfort to another model, the Remos NXT two seater. Cessna launched the jet-fuel-burning diesel 182 at EAA AirVenture 2012 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, with much fanfare using the […]

Two Bell Helicopter pilots flying a Bell 214ST on a test flight last week walked away unharmed after making an emergency landing in a Texas cotton field. The pilots reportedly made a textbook emergency landing, only to have the helicopter tip onto its side when one of the wheels dug into the soft dirt. Video […]

Boeing on Tuesday was preparing to fly its experimental X-51A WaveRider, a scramjet-powered unmanned aircraft that is designed to travel at speeds above Mach 5 burning JP-5 jet fuel. The Air Force planned to transport the aircraft under the wing of a B-52 bomber from Edwards Air Force Base in California to an altitude of […]

GAMA recently released its second-quarter report for shipments of new airplanes, and similar to the used aircraft market information released recently by Jetnet, the market trend appears headed in a positive direction. According to the report, the first half of 2012 saw an increase in total billings for the industry of 13.2 percent compared with […]

A Saab 340 operated by Silver Airways on a scheduled flight to North Central West Virginia Airport (KCKB) on Tuesday night mistakenly landed at a much smaller airport in Fairmont, West Virginia (4G7), less than five miles away. The landing by the United Express-coded turboprop happened during Silver Airway’s first week of service to KCKB. […]

Continuing a strategy that more and more looks like a complete renewal of its product line, Eurocopter has revealed it is working on two new helicopter projects – the X6, a revamped model to be developed from the Super Puma family, and the X9, a project just now getting under way at the company’s factory […]

After much publicity about international students on the TSA’s No-fly List being able to receive flight instruction in the United States, the FAA Safety Team has issued a notice to flight instructors reminding them of specific responsibilities mandated by Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Before providing instruction, certified flight instructors in the U.S. are required to […]

Glasair president and CEO Mikael Via has decided to leave the company after its recent sale to Jilin Hanxing Group, a China-based conglomerate, ending a tenure that saw a successful resurgence for the kitplane maker. Replacing Via at the helm of Glasair Aviation are its new president, Nigel Mott, previously the vice president of operations, […]

A preliminary report filed by the NTSB indicates that a Piaggio P.180 operated by Avantair flew two legs while missing the left side of its elevator. According to the report, the twin-engine pusher turboprop departed Camarillo, California, on July 28, flew to San Diego to pick up two passengers and then continued to Henderson Executive […]