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Piper Aircraft’s newly announced PiperJet was the star of the show at this year’s National Business Aviation Association convention, held last month in Orlando. Revealed shortly before the convention to a public anticipating it eagerly, it quickly became the “must-see” airplane even though it was a mockup and not due for certification until 2009. Indeed, […]

Earlier this fall, the TBM Owners and Pilot Association (TBMOPA), made up of EADS Socata TBM 700 and TBM 850 owners, held a record-breaking annual convention in Cœur d’Alene, Idaho. More than 70 TBM aircraft — representing almost 24% of the privately owned TBM fleet — flew in for the event, making it the biggest […]

Cirrus Design Corp. has landed a milestone, receiving an Organization Designated Airworthiness Representative (ODAR) designation from the FAA. This authority allows Cirrus to train, evaluate and manage its own team of airworthiness designees. The designation is a “testament to the FAA’s confidence in our quality systems and personnel,” says David Coleal, president and COO. The […]

The Department of Transportation (DOT) has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that establishes procedures for reimbursing general aviation operators at five Washington, D.C., area airports for the “direct and incremental financial losses they incurred while the airports were closed due to federal government actions taken after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001,” […]

The first 11 of 44 Diamond DA20-C1 and one DA40 aircraft have arrived at Doss Aviation at Pueblo Memorial Airport in Colorado for the Air Force’s Initial Flight Screening Program. The program is a 40-day, 25-hour flight screening course for up to 1,700 United States Air Force officers annually.

The new US Unlimited Aerobatic Team was selected earlier this month. Of the 97 contestants who competed in the National Aerobatic Championships in Sherman, Texas, in September, 11 were chosen to represent the USA at next summer’s World Aerobatic Championship. They are: Debby Rihn-Harvey, Michael Racy, David Martin, Melissa Andrzejewski, Robert Armstrong, Chandy Clanton, Dan […]

Build A Plane (BAP), a non-profit organization that helps kids learn science, technology, engineering and mathematics by building and working on real airplanes, is in need of aircraft donations. BAP places donated aircraft into high schools across the country that want to add aviation into their curriculum. It also works with groups that use aviation […]

Authorities are investigating the Oct. 11 crash of a Cirrus SR20 in New York that killed 34-year-old Cory Lidle, a pitcher for the New York Yankees, and his flight instructor, Tyler Stanger. The pair were flying the East River VFR corridor when their plane slammed into the 40th story of a luxury high-rise building. The […]

The NTSB recently issued a safety alert to pilots warning them to actively maintain awareness of severe weather along their entire route of flight. NTSB officials say they have identified several accidents in which in-flight encounters with severe weather were the cause — or contributed to — accidents. All the accidents involved aircraft operating under […]