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All News

June 26, 2014

FAA Certifies Cessna Citation X+

Initial Deliveries Already Underway

The FAA has granted type certification of the new Citation X+ mid-size business jet. Deliveries commenced immediately with the company celebrating the first delivery to Gerry Buchheit of Orchard Park, NY, who owns and operates road construction and commercial real estate development companies.

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First Virgin Atlantic -9 Dreamliners To Fly From London To The U.S. East Coast

Virgin Atlantic Announces Routes For Its 787-9 Fleet

When Boeing delivers the first 787-9 variant of the Dreamliner to Virgin Atlantic, it will fly between London and destinations on the U.S. East Coast, the airline announced Monday.

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Federal Judge Rules No-Fly List Unconstitutional

Says The List Denies Due Process To Those Listed

A U.S District Judge has ruled that the Federal Government's no-fly list violates the U.S. constitution.

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ALPA Says Ex-Im Bank’s Financing Threatens U.S. Airline Jobs

Upcoming Reauthorization Offers Key Opportunity For Reform

The Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA) on Wednesday called on the U.S. House Financial Services Committee to seize the upcoming U.S. Export-Import Bank reauthorization as a key opportunity to make certain that the bank’s widebody financing decisions do not harm U.S. airlines or threaten U.S. airline industry jobs.

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Garmin Marks 10th Anniversary Of The G1000 Flight Deck

First Installed In Cessna And Diamond Aircraft In 2004

Garmin is celebrating the tenth anniversary of delivering the G1000 Integrated Flight Deck (IFD) to customers. The first announcement of the revolutionary G1000 IFD was in March 2003, when Cessna announced the selection of G1000 for the Citation Mustang, which was in development at the time. Additional announcements by a variety of aircraft manufacturers followed, and the first customer deliveries of the G1000 IFD began in June 2004 by both Cessna and Diamond Aircraft in their single-engine product lines.

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Myrick Named CAP National Vice Commander

Middle East Region’s Ragland To Serve As Chief Of Staff

Col. Larry Myrick of San Luis Obispo, CA has been confirmed as Civil Air Patrol’s next national vice commander by the organization’s Board of Governors. Brig. Gen. Joe Vazquez, CAP’s next chief executive officer and national commander, selected Myrick.

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Gone West: Pilot Denny Fitch

Had Assisted Crew When United Flight 232 Went Down In Sioux City, IA

The pilot who happened to be aboard United Flight 232 and helped its flight crew crash-land the airplane in Sioux City, IA has Gone West at the age of 69.

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Pilatus PC-12 Owner Logs 10,000 Hours As PIC

Tim La Porte Claims Spot As Highest PC-12 Pilot In The World

Tim La Porte, owner of Iliamna Air Taxi Service in Iliamna, Alaska, celebrates milestone achievement and continues his reign as the highest time PC-12 pilot in the world.

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ESA Drop-Tests Unmanned 'Space Plane'

Recovery Crew Conducts Practice Off The Coast Of Italy

The ship and crew aiming to recover Europe’s unmanned IXV spacecraft in November had a practice run off the coast of Tuscany, Italy Monday. They retrieved a prototype of the suborbital IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, the same model flown last year in a splashdown test off the east coast of Sardinia.

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Plane Found A Week After Accident

Pilot Admitted He Did Not Want To Tell The FAA About The Mishap

A property owner in upstate New York came across something unusual on a recent Saturday morning. At the edge of their 40-acre estate in Altamont, NY was a Piper Clipper hanging from some trees ... with nobody inside.

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Tubreaux Aviation Flight Training Scholarship Student Pilot Solos

Headed Toward Private Pilot Checkride By Month's End

Matt Callahan, who in April was named recipient of a complete private pilot training experience from Tubreaux Aviation, Shreveport, Louisiana, soloed for the first time on June 11 ... Day 7 of his flight training. He’s on track to take his private pilot checkride by the end of the month.

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NASA Sets New Dates For Saucer-Shaped Test Vehicle Flight

LDSD Experiment Could Come As Early As Saturday In Hawaii

NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project plans to fly its rocket-powered, saucer-shaped landing technology test vehicle into near-space from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) on Kauai, Hawaii later this week.

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AD: The Boeing Company Airplanes

AD NUMBER: 2014-12-10

PRODUCT: Certain Boeing Model 727-100 series airplanes.

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Airborne 06.25.14: NTSB Rules On Asiana 214, A350XWB Fleet, Princely Chopper

Also: Breezys to Flock To Oshkosh, Green Flight Challenge, TSA Gouging Us Again, Electric A/C Record

This report summary is only a synopsis of the NTSB findings on the crash of Asiana flight 214 while executing a visual approach and to San Francisco International Airport on June 16, 2013. The summary contains almost 5000 words and is testimony to the scope of the investigation. Flight testing and certifying a new airliner is a tough job and it takes more than one of the new models to finish the job in a reasonable amount of time. For certification of the new Airbus A350 XWB, the 5th test airplane has now joined in the certification process. The next ti

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Whitaker To Senate: NextGen Is Making Significant Progress

Offers Testimony Before The Senate Commerce Committee On The System

The FAA's Deputy Administrator in charge of NextGen told the Senate Commerce Committee Wednesday that the agency has made "significant progress" towards full implementation of the system.

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Bolen: NextGen Benefits Must Be Available To All GA Stakeholders

NBAA President And CEO Provides Written Testimony To Senate Commerce Committee

In written testimony submitted before a congressional hearing on the state of progress toward implementation of a Next Generation “NextGen” aviation system, NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen outlined several technical issues that pose challenges to the industry. He also reiterated the concern that general aviation (GA) operators may be subjected to unanticipated financial costs in attempting to comply with a specific equipage mandate from the FAA.

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Academy Of Model Aeronautics Responds To FAA Model Aircraft Rule

Calls Published Interpretation 'At Best Ill-Conceived'

The Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) has reviewed FAA’s recently released Interpretive Rule in which the agency provided its interpretation of the “Special Rule for Model Aircraft” established by Congress as part of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (Public Law 112-95). The Academy is extremely disappointed and troubled by the approach the FAA has chosen to take in regards to this issue.

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FAA Seeks Public Comment On Movie/TV UAS Exemptions

Seven Companies Have Filed For Permission To Use UAVs For Commercial Purposes

Recently, seven aerial photo and video production companies asked the FAA for regulatory exemptions that would allow the film and television industry to use unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) with FAA approval for the first time.

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One Confirmed Fatally Injured In Mid-Air Collision In Germany

Learjet Chartered By The German Military Collided With A Fighter Jet

A mid-air collision in Germany has fatally injured at least one person, with another unaccounted for.

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FAA Certifies Bombardier Challenger 350 Aircraft

Granted Full Type Certification By The Agency

The FAA has certified Bombardier's Challenger 350 business aircraft. Transport Canada certification was granted on June 12, 2014.

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FAA Certifies FIKI System For Cessna TTx

Provides Up To 150 Minutes Of Ice Protection For The Aircraft

The FAA has certified Cessna's TTx FIKI system allowing Flight Into Known Icing by the high-performance aircraft.

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Aero-News: Quote Of The Day (06.26.14)

“AMA cannot support this rule. It is at best ill-conceived and at worst intentionally punitive and retaliatory. The Academy strongly requests the FAA reconsider this action.” Source: AMA Executive Director Dave Mathewson.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (06.26.14): Altocumulus

A cloud of a class characterized by globular masses or rolls in layers or patches, the individual elements being larger and darker than those of cirrocumulus and smaller than those of stratocumulus.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (06.26.14)

Cessnas 2 Oshkosh 2014

The arrival of the summer solstice signals the beginning of the final stretch on the way to the 9th Annual Cessnas 2 Oshkosh Mass Arrival. Planning starts to give way to execution as the registration and training activities begin to wrap up.

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