FAR 91.17 prohibits flying after the use of “any drug that affects the person’s faculties in any way contrary to safety.” Yet every year pilots crash, killing themselves and their passengers, often because the pilot is chemically compromised by over the counter medications. That’s the big message from a recent study by the National Transportation […]
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Bearhawk receives FAA approval for transition training
Flying an airplane you’ve never flown before is a lot like cooking in someone else’s kitchen. Although you know how to work a stove, the microwave can present a challenge and finding the most basic of implements can be time consuming and frustrating. Now add the dimension of being at 3,000 feet above the earth […]
Development underway on new Hartzell 5-blade props
Hartzell Propeller developmental activities for the company’s five-blade, swept-tip carbon fiber propellers will be featured at the 2014 National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Convention in Orlando, Fla., Oct. 21-23, booth 1817. Hartzell is working on several other yet-to-be-announced composite five-blade programs for turboprop business aircraft. DAHER-SOCATA’s new TBM 900 features the same Hartzell composite, five-blade, […]
FLG Teardowns opens facility at SEF
SEBRING, Florida — FLG Technics of Davie, Florida, opened its new business, FLG Teardowns, in Sebring Regional Airport’s Hangar 60 this past September. FLG Teardowns will handle everything from aircraft parts distribution through dismantling, as well as materials recycling for unused parts. “Aerospace leaders are developing new strategies for management of end-of-life aircraft,” says Michael Elkaim, […]
Channel Islands Aviation joins Phillips 66 FBO network
CAMARILLO, Calif. – Family-owned and operated Channel Islands Aviation (CIA) is Phillip 66 Aviation’s newest addition to its growing FBO network, with more than 850 facilities scattered across the U.S. CIA opened its doors in 1976 when co-owners Mark and Janie Oberman were selected as the first operator at Camarillo Airport (KCMA). “We’ve seen quite […]
Fire destroys hangars, airplanes at 1W1
A fire tore through a row of hangars at Grove Field (1W1) in Camas, Wash., Oct. 6, destroying several airplanes and vintage automobiles. When firefighters arrived at the airport — which is about 20 miles northeast of Portland, Ore. — at 10:24 p.m., they found the hangar doors and roofs had been blown off by […]
Group requests landing fee exemption for based aircraft at ISP
National Air Transportation Association (NATA) President and CEO Thomas L. Hendricks recently wrote to the Town of Islip, N.Y., requesting it drop recently imposed landing fees on based aircraft at Long Island MacArthur Airport (ISP). The town imposed landing fees on all aircraft effective Sept. 1, 2014, and for the first time made them applicable to […]
Flight activity picks up at ISM for NBAA
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Officials at Kissimmee Gateway Airport (ISM) say they are expecting increased flight activity during the week of Oct. 19-24, in association with the National Business Aviation Association Convention. The convention is held every other year at the Orlando-Orange County Convention Center, and has the highest economic impact of any recurring convention in Orlando. […]
Blue Angels highlight Wings Over Houston Airshow
HOUSTON — The U.S. Navy Blue Angels will return to Houston for the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) 30th Annual Wings Over Houston Airshow, which will be held Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 1-2, at Ellington Airport. Produced by the Commemorative Air Force, the non-profit airshow also will feature a tribute to Vietnam War veterans with a […]