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The FAA has inspected Archer Aviation’s prototype electric air taxi program, authorizing a special airworthiness certificate, clearing the way for its first hover test flight.

Social media was abuzz over the weekend after a 26-year-old unidentified man was found alive after flying from Guatemala (MGGT) to Miami International Airport (KMIA) in the wheel well of a Boeing 737-800. 

Jason McDowell says it’s worth your while to dig into the history of your aircraft, or one you’re eyeing up.

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The Huntsville International Airport (KHSV), in Huntsville, Alabama, has been proposed to serve as a re-entry site for horizontally landed commercial aircraft. The Huntsville-Madison Airport Authority must gain a Reentry Site Operator License first, issued by the FAA. Sierra Space Corporation is seeking a vehicle operator license to land its Dream Chaser space plane at […]

FLYING CEO Craig Fuller says general aviation is gaining momentum and new pilots—and that this trend should continue.

Congress needs to step up its funding in support of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) to keep pace with recent industry developments, a group of general aviation organizations told lawmakers. In a letter to House and Senate leaders of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Subcommittee, GA stakeholders pressed the lawmakers to double funding of […]

Teaching people to fly should incorporate risk management, yet currently the test standards for CFIs do not contain a mechanism for evaluating the applicant’s judgement toward risk. This will change with the release of the airman certification standards for CFIs, a document currently in development. The date for the release has not been set; however, […]

For-hire hot air balloon pilots could soon need to hold the same medical certificate as a commercial pilot to do their job.

As the Federal Communications Commission nears a planned expansion of radio frequencies available to 5G cellular networks, U.S. aviation industry leaders are expressing concerns about potential safety issues linked to radio (radar) altimeter performance. Beginning December 5, cellular carriers in 46 U.S. markets are expected to repurpose portions of the C-band frequency spectrum near the […]