Aviation News

The CEO of Micron Technology, Inc., died when his Lancair kitplane crashed at Boise, Idaho, on Friday. Appleton was the sole occupant of the kitplane. An experienced airshow pilot who frequently performed at air shows around the country in both jets and aerobatic airplanes, Appleton was also an accomplished off-road racer and martial arts competitor. […]

The Air Force’s awarding of a contract for Light Support Aircraft (LAS) to Sierra Nevada Corporation for the purchase of 20 Embraer A-29 Super Tucano advanced trainers has turned contentious. Just weeks after Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (HBC) went public with its claims of unfair treatment at the hands of the the Air Force and calling […]

Sporty’s and Frasca Sim are teaming up to offer student pilots an enhanced, more cost effective experience, both companies recently announced. With the move, Sporty’s Academy is adding a Frasca Mentor flight simulator to its repertoire of training tools. The sim, designed to mimic the G1000-equipped Cessna 172 cockpit, comes equipped with access to over […]

If you’re looking for a big-iron cockpit job and wouldn’t mind relocating halfway around the world, you may be in luck: Pan Am International Flight Academy and Wasinc International, China’s largest pilot placement firm, are hosting job fairs at Pan Am’s Miami and Las Vegas training centers. Pan Am is hosting the Miami job fair […]

Actor John Travolta has donated his Gulfstream II to the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame, collocated with the Museum of Aviation at the Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins, Georgia. According to the museum’s director of marketing, Bob Dubiel, Travolta donated the airplane in memory of his deceased son, Jett. Dubiel also said the […]

Two well-known filmmakers were killed on Saturday in a helicopter crash in Eastern Australia. The men, 60-year-old American cinematographer Mike deGruy and 52-year-old Australian writer-producer Andrew Wight, died when the Robinson R44 helicopter Wight was piloting crashed shortly after takeoff from Jaspers Brush, an airfield approximately 100 miles south of Sydney. According to the Australian […]

Even before the opening kickoff on Sunday night, Super Bowl XLVI smashed one record – the number of private aircraft flying to the game. More than 1,100 private aircraft had parking reservations at area airports for the weekend, according to the Indiana Department of Transportation Aviation Division. And that number doesn’t include the hundreds of […]

Utah Valley University recently released a brief video highlighting major milestones in aviation history in a video animated in 3D. While it’s impossible to include all major historical events in 3:35 minutes, the video does a good job of including some of the most significant achievements, from Leonardo Da Vinci’s early drawings to the first […]

A 41-year-old pilot was killed on Monday after being struck by the moving propeller of his 1974 Piper Cherokee. The accident took place around 8:30 a.m. at Gillespie Field in El Cajon, California, just outside of San Diego. According to officials, the pilot, who has been identified as Gordon Trygve Mylo Woodard of Lakeside, California, […]

A House-Senate Conference Committee has reached agreement on a long-term FAA reauthorization bill that would provide funding and program direction for the agency through fiscal 2015. A final vote on the measure is expected soon. The FAA has been operating under 23 short-term funding extensions since 2007. The long-term bill, if passed, would authorize $63.4 […]