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May 31, 2012

FAA Says Somerset, KY FBO Lease Does Not Pass Muster

New FBO Does Not Comply With Fair Market Value Policy

In a letter sent to officials at Lake Cumberland Airport (KSME) in Somerset, KY, the FAA says a lease agreement between the airport and a new FBO is in violation of one of 39 grant assurances required by the federal government.

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Pietenpol Air Camper Lands In Kalamazoo, MI, Museum

Owner/Builder Began His Project In The Mid-1960s, Had Not Flown Since 2007

A project which began on a dining room table in the mid-1960s has landed at the Kalamazoo, MI, "Air Zoo" museum after its pilot/builder became unable to fly. And Bob Humbert never got the chance to take his wife for a promised ride in the airplane.

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NTSB Delegates Investigation Of Virginia Accident To Canadian Agency

Both Aircraft Involved Were Owned By Federal Employees

In something of a rare move, the NTSB has delegated the investigation of Monday's mid-air collision which occurred about five miles from Warrenton-Fauquier Airport in Sumerduck, VA, to the Transportation Safety Board of Canada ... but they have a compelling reason to do so.

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Air Cam Down In Colorado, Pilot Fatally Injured

Memorial Day Accident Also Seriously Injures Passenger

The pilot of an Air Cam which went down Memorial day in Morgan County, CO, was reportedly killed instantly in the accident. The passenger in the homebuilt twin, the pilot's 42-year-old dauther, was seriously injured.

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Search Ongoing For Missing Pilot In Oregon

Plane's Last Known Location Was Near Plush, OR

The family of a missing Idaho pilot had not given up hope he'd be found as searchers fanned out Tuesday across 4,000 square miles of mountains, forest and high desert to find a plane they believe went down in Southern Oregon.

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Gone West: Modeler And Legend, Bill Northrop

Champion Free Flight And Radio Control Modeler Was 89

One of the Academy of Model Aeronautics and aeromodeling legends has passed away. Bill Northrop, 89, was a champion free flight and radio control competitor, columnist, publisher and model builder in an aeromodeling career that began in 1936, the same year AMA was founded, when he was 14 years old.

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