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Flying eNewsletter has received scores of e-mails detailing relief efforts by pilots flying to Haiti. The stories range from individual owner-pilots in single-engine pistons to corporations donating the use of their jet fleets to aid the victims of last month’s earthquake. In many cases, the e-mails came not from the pilots, themselves, but rather from […]

Hawker Beechcraft took the wraps off its newest website (www.hawkerbeechcraft.com) this week. Designed to be “customer-focused” the site is designed to offer more information as well as exciting ways to experience the company’s products online. Recognizing the importance of the Internet in today’s society, HBC’s director of marketing Ron Gunnarson said, “A customer’s first impression […]

This year’s Red Bull Air Racing World Championship will run in cooperation with Cirrus Aircraft. Announced last week at Santa Monica, California, the partnership will enable guests at the Red Bull races in either the Race Club or High Flyer’s Lounge to have special access to the Cirrus SR22 and the developmental single-engine Cirrus Vision […]

When general aviation advocates received copies of President Obama’s 2011 budget, presented on Monday, they immediately honed in on the issue of user fees. A preliminary version of the budget presented last year included language favorable to introducing such fees, which have long been opposed by just about everyone on the GA side. But the […]

When the first HondaJets are delivered, planned for the fourth quarter of next year, FlightSafety International will train their pilots. FSI will establish a facility at Honda Aircraft headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina, configured to accommodate two simulators provided by the training specialist. “We will consider adding additional simulators at other locations in the U.S. […]

In a series of public meetings, the FAA will investigate possible changes to policy rulemaking for aircraft certified under FAR Part 23. As well as certification standards, the review is expected to encompass maintenance and operations. The review comes on the heels of a two-year study, based on the fact that, “The last thorough review […]

Fallout from the Feb. 12, 2009, crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 continues. With the final report from the NTSB scheduled for Tuesday, the FAA announced last week an initiative to address what it considers prime contributors to the accident — pilot fatigue, lack of training and airline hiring practices. Flight time and duty rules […]

He started taking photos of airplanes at Floyd Bennett Field in the 1930s, and his work has graced the cover of Flying as well as the pages of countless other magazines, books and newspapers. Howard Levy died January 29 at the age of 88. He was buried at the Hebrew Benefit Society Cemetery in Freehold, […]

One of the industry’s oldest and strongest “type clubs” is readjusting its leadership. The American Bonanza Society has a new president and an interim executive director, effective the beginning of this month. Nancy Johnson is stepping down as executive director after 13 years in that position, replaced by Tom Turner, who has been the group’s […]

On March 4, 2008, a Citation 500 with five people aboard took off from Wiley Post Airport in Oklahoma City. Two minutes later, it lay a smoking wreckage in a wooded area four miles away. Many witnesses saw the crash. One reported hearing what “sounded like an engine compressor stall” — that is, a loud […]