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A replica Horten 229 flying wing is being unveiled on June 24 as part of the San Diego Air and Space Museum‘s World War II Gallery. The National Geographic Society and Northrop Grumman Corporation teamed up to build the flying wing for a new television documentary premiering June 28. The top-secret Nazi fighter was replicated […]

Wilson Air Center recently hosted the 13th Annual Pilatus Owners and Pilots Association (POPA) Convention in Memphis. Thirty-five aircraft visited for a long weekend of classes, education, demonstrations and static displays. The world-renowned Memphis Peabody Hotel was the convention headquarters. Craig Fuller, AOPA president, was the keynote speaker, delivering a talk on the need and […]

The general aviation airport in Essex County, New Jersey, is, at the age of 80, “a place of stories as varied as the 283 aircraft … parked off its two runways,” wrote Philip Read in the June 21 Essex Star-Ledger. The facility, operated since 1975 by the Essex County Improvement Authority, also is “home to […]

Christian Ramirez, 12, had thought he’d seen all his hometown had to offer until he took his first flight and saw it from the sky, according to a June 21 article in the Chico (Calif.) Enterprise-Record. “Butte College looks bigger on the inside,” Christian, a Chico native, said. “It just looks so small from up […]

A World War II dive bomber removed from the depths of Lake Michigan flew combat missions during that war, an official from a Hawaiian museum told the Waukegan (Illinois) News-Sun on June 20. Kenneth DeHoff, executive director of the Pacific Aviation Museum, said the Douglas SBD Dauntless raised from the Great Lake near Waukegan will […]

The Federal Aviation Administration was forced to close several air corridors for 30 minutes, June 19, as a “desperation move” to avoid a serious safety risk when its “poor management and woeful staffing reached this breaking point” at Washington Center, according to the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. One controller at the Leesburg, Virginia center, […]

Legislation honoring the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), who flew more than 60,000,000 miles from 1942 to 1944 on every type of assignment but air combat, has passed both houses of Congress, the online newsletter AVweb reported on June 22. The Hutchison-Mikulski Bill passed the House on June 16, sponsored by 334 representatives. It had […]

“The Frederick (Maryland) airport is a neighborhood airport that lends itself well to the community,” said Charlie Abell, EAA member and former Frederick airport manager, in a June 22 interview with Ike Wilson of the Frederick News-Post. Frederick EAA Chapter 524 recently held a Young Eagles day for Cub Scout Pack 1811. The Cubs got […]