runway

During the runway incursion, an airliner crossed an active runway at KDCA without a clearance.

FAA data shows a drop in ‘serious’ close calls over the last 20 years.

Stabilized approaches are critical to mitigating the risks.

Be sure to note the details in pilot reports when you conduct your preflight planning.

The airport’s new 4,000-foot runway is expected to bolster the state and local economies.

What do you say to air traffic control when you’re ready to go?

Airport windsocks aren’t there to make a fashion statement. Here’s why they’re different colors.

Ever since its inception in 1987, the fly-in community of Kelly Airpark (CO15) near Elbert, Colorado, has had a strong focus on gliders and other general aviation traffic. As the community has evolved over the years, so has its most important asset—its hard-surface runway.  Recently, the airpark’s board of directors determined that the 3,800-foot-long paved […]

If successful, the strategy for repairing aging concrete by mimicking biological systems could extend the life of critical military airfields and runways.