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BRS Aerospace has appointed Sebastian Valdez Chief Financial Officer and a member of the board of directors. Thomas Adams Jr., a member of the BRS board since 1986, is retiring effective immediately. Valdez will take Adams’ place on the board. Valdez is a director at High F Inc., a private investment firm based in Miami. […]

One of the major complaints pilots have about television shows depicting aviation is that they often get it wrong. In Hollywood, airplane engines suddenly quit with alarming frequency and pilots attempt to fix the problem by holding the stick full aft until impact. Don’t you wish for a TV show made for aviators by aviators? […]

Flight instructors in California are wondering how they are going comply with a new law that requires them to pay a fee to offer flight instruction. The law, Assembly Bill 48, takes effect Aug. 1. But CFIs may get an extension, as well as a chance to argue against the new law. The lawmaker who […]

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), in partnership with GE Aviation and Hartzell Propeller, is hosting a forum on general aviation jobs featuring Senator Sherrod Brown, Congressman Steve Driehaus and Congresswoman Jean Schmidt. The forum will be held at Lunken Airport (LUK) in Cincinnati, Ohio, with a crowd that includes more than 500 workers and […]

Entries for the inaugural Lindbergh Electric Aircraft Prize (LEAP), honoring advancement in electric flight, are now being accepted, with the prize winners to be announced during the World Symposium on Electric Aircraft presented by GE Aviation Systems at EAA AirVenture 2010 in Oshkosh. LEAP will be an annual group of prizes designed to promote the […]

Piper Aircraft will shut down operations for the week of Aug. 9, according to a report at Aviation International News. With some exceptions, all staff, including company management, will be unpaid for that week, the story notes, adding the exceptions will be workers developing the PiperJet and those devoted to delivery of essential parts and […]

After an extended period of discussions, EAA and the National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI) board of directors have agreed that NAFI will become a fully independent organization no later than March 1, 2011. “We endorse NAFI’s decision to position itself as an independent professional association for the flight instructor community,” said Tom Poberezny, EAA […]