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February 26, 2013

ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 02.26.13

Diamond Aircraft Restructures & Puts D-Jets on Hold

Republicans Challenge the FAA’s Sequestration Strategy

19 are Killed in a Hot Air Ball

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Quicksilver Pilot Honored By FAA

George Karamitis Given Wright Brothers Award For 50 Years Of Safe Flight

Flying without accident, incident, or citation for 50 years is a major accomplishment, one significant enough for FAA to issue the agency’s prized Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award in a ceremony at Sebring U.S. Sport Aviation Expo 2013. The honor was given to George Karamitis. And for half of those 50 years, George has flown a Quicksilver ... several of them, in fact.

Aviation Authorities Said He Should Not Have Been Flying On The Day Of The Accident

The pilot of a balloon that went down in Carterton, New Zealand in January, 2012 had an expired medical certificate and should not have been flying, according to civil aviation authorities in New Zealand. Pilot Lance Hopping and 10 others were fatally injured in the accident.