What started as a simple Freedom of Information Act request in August 2002 from the Antique Airplane Association’s Brent Taylor for drawings and data on the Fairchild 45 became a protracted legal battle that has wound its way to the U.S, Supreme Court and back to the lower courts. But it’s finally over, Taylor reports, […]
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How you’d like to live in a 727?
Imagine having a Boeing 727 as a home. According to a report Oddee.com, Joanne Ussary of Benoit, Miss., bought the plane for $2,000, paid $4,000 to move it, and $24,000 to renovate it. Check out the photos below.
Celebrating a pioneering African American aviator
On Feb.1, pioneering African American aviator Mildred Hemmons Carter will be saluted with a program honoring the 70th anniversary of the day she received her pilot’s license. The program will be held at 2 p.m. at the Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center in Tuskegee, Ala. Carter earned her ticket in 1941 from the […]
Name change for CAMC
The Canadian Aviation Maintenance Council (CAMC) has changed its name to Canadian Council for Aviation & Aerospace (CCAA). The name change reflects the council’s work for the entire aviation and aerospace sector, according to officials. “Although its origins are in the aviation maintenance segment of the industry, the work of the council increasingly encompassed other […]
IndUS breaks ground in China for LSA manufacturing facility
Dallas-based IndUS Aviation reported at the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Fla., that progress is being made with Chinese partner IPI Technologies and private investors in China to move production of the Thorpedo Light Sport Aircraft to the new LuYangHu General Aviation Development Zone in Weinan, China. Dr. Ram Pattisapu reports, “I just returned […]
Carter’s PAV takes flight
Carter Aviation Technologies President Jay Carter has a vision of a world where people fly around in small, car-sized autogyro-airplane hybrids that can take off and land without a runway. According to a story in the Times Record News of Wichita Falls, Texas, the idea may have seemed like fantasy some 16 years ago when […]
Textron back in black
Textron Inc., parent to Cessna Aircraft Co., posted a fourth-quarter profit, with revenues increasing at both Cessna and Bell Helicopter, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, which quotes Textron Chairman and Chief Executive Scott Donnelly: “We’re particularly encouraged by the pick-up in business jet and commercial helicopter demand, driven in part by […]
LEX wins FAA award
Blue Grass Airport (LEX) in Lexington, Ky., has been presented with the Airport Safety Mark of Distinction Award by the FAA. Awarded at the FAA Southern Region 2011 Airport Safety and Certification Conference in Atlanta, the airport received this honor for construction of its new general aviation runway and associated taxiways and for the development […]
Lightspeed Aviation Foundation’s grants top $100,000
Twenty aviation-related charities are the beneficiaries of more than $100,000 in grants awarded by the Lightspeed Aviation Foundation for 2010. Midnight, Feb. 11, is the deadline for charities to apply for 2011 grants. In April 2010, the Lightspeed Aviation Foundation submitted 20 finalists to the aviation community. Pilots then selected their favorites among these charities […]