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The funds will come from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

The FAA is ramping up air traffic control staffing in northern Florida and eyeing new strategies to keep aircraft moving, the company announced after a two-day meeting with airlines and aviation stakeholders targeting air traffic congestion in the state. FAA staffing shortages, particularly at the Jacksonville Air Route Traffic Control Center, along with weather, space […]

YouTube personality and backcountry pilot says if his certificate suspension is upheld, people may be forced to make dangerous landings.

Luke Aikins, the lead pilot for the Red Bull Plane Swap stunt that streamed live last Sunday on Hulu, has apparently posted a message on his Instagram page in which he takes responsibility for continuing with the event without permission from the FAA. In the Instagram statement, Aikins says he received an email from the […]

A pilot in his 20s climbs into an airplane and takes off to perform a record-setting stunt that is sure to impress his millions of followers. The plot so far might bear a current-day familiarity, but in this case, the year is 1914 and the pilot is Lincoln Beachey. Beachey was a pioneer of aerial […]

Agency says it had denied organizers’ request for permission to perform the stunt.

What began as a scheduled pre-game parachute jump by the U.S. Army Golden Knights team into Nationals Field in Washington, D.C., is now the focus of an FAA investigation. An apparent miscommunication among agencies led to a brief evacuation of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday evening after Capitol Police spotted an unidentified aircraft flying nearby […]

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Feds say former Olympic snowboarder turned social media star Trevor Jacob faked engine trouble for a stunt.

Investigation focuses on black boxes as airline resumes 737-800 flights.