Aviation News

Longtime Flying Magazine columnist Gordon Baxter, who passed away earlier this year, was inducted in November into the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston, just down the Gulf Coast from Baxter’s home town of Beaumont. Before a crowd of several hundred museum members and a […]

When the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) announced, in the aftermath of Katrina, that it was moving its convention to Orlando, to a date a week in advance of the previously scheduled show in the Big Easy, a lot of people wondered out loud just how the organization was going to pull off that feat. […]

A year in advance of the event Cessna unveiled ts plans to conduct the fifth Citation Special Olympics Airlift to the 2006 inaugural Special Olympics USA National Games, to be held from July 2-7 in Ames, Iowa. It is expected to be the largest Citation Airlift ever, with 400 Citation aircraft scheduled to be on […]

Beech unveiled a new, more powerful version of the King Air C90 at EAA AirVenture 2005. The new version of the venerable turboprop, the C90GT, will have new Pratt & Whitney PT6A-135A engines rated at 750 shp, which will increase cruise speed from about 245 knots to over 270 knots. The new engines are flat […]

Embraer is making progress on its light jet program, which it announced at the Paris airshow last spring. The company, which makes a lineup of regional jets and a high-end bizjet, the Legacy, will get into the light jet market by producing both a very light jet (six to eight seats) and a light jet […]

AirVenture 2005 was a lot of fun.

Gordon Baxter, who for more than 20 years wrote the Bax Seat column in Flying, passed away on June 11th at the age of 81 from a respiratory illness. Gordon is survived by his wife, Diane, nine children, 16 grandchildren and a host of friends and admirers. A longtime radio personality and professional character in […]

Our fine friend and colleague Len Morgan died on March 11 after a long illness. He was 82. In his late teens, Len went off to Canada and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. The United States had not yet entered World War II and Len and 11 other Americans earned their RCAF wings on […]

The November 2001 crash, shortly after takeoff from JFK, of American Airlines Flight 587 sent a tremor through the aviation community. It involved an extremely rare event: the structural failure, and complete separation, of one of the major flying surfaces-namely, the vertical stabilizer-of the airplane, an Airbus A300-600. In the ensuing loss of control, the […]