The FAA is now accepting applications from experienced candidates to fill aviation safety positions at various facilities throughout the country. These positions are critical to the agency’s mission to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world, agency officials said. The FAA is hiring: Aviation Safety Inspectors to administer, investigate, and enforce safety […]
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Picture of the Day: Flying again after 23 years
Roger Barcus sent us this photo with a great subject line in the email: Finally owning and flying again after 23 years. Good instructors are invaluable! He explains: “I bought a 1970 Mooney M20E Dec. 13, 2017. Jim Schulze was my instructor, who did a first class job using not only his skill and knowledge, […]
Aircraft Spruce offers Oshkosh pick up
Aircraft Spruce customers can place their orders online or by phone and pick them up at the company’s exhibit at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. Orders placed by noon (EST) Monday, July 16, 2018 will be brought to the show at no additional cost. All orders must be paid by credit card, must be for at least $100 and […]
FAA modifies drone restrictions over DoD facilities
The FAA has added several Department of Defense facilities to its recently released list of facilities where drone operations are restricted, as well as modified some boundaries of existing facilities on the restricted list. At the request of the Department of Defense, and federal security and law enforcement agencies, the FAA has been using its […]
CubCrafters boosts production for 2019
YAKIMA, Washington – CubCrafters will significantly increase production of the line of light two-place tandem aircraft it manufactures in 2019, according to company officials. “Backcountry flying is increasing in popularity and CubCrafters has seen continuous sales growth since the introduction of the Light Sport Carbon Cub in 2009,” said CubCrafters’ Director of Sales Brad Damm. […]
Students earn once-in-a-lifetime internships
EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wis. — Noa Garcia-Brown of Belmont, California, and Riley Ferguson of Lexington, Kentucky, have received the work internships of a lifetime, as they are the recipients of this year’s EAA/Daher Intern Scholarships. For the internship program, now in its 12th year, each student receives a five-week internship at Daher’s Tarbes facility […]
Smithsonian launches She Can STEM summer camp
The National Air and Space Museum will launch the “She Can” two-week STEM summer camp this July and August at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. The camp is designed for students with an interest in aviation. It seeks to empower young women to succeed in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) disciplines, […]
B-52 takes to the freeways
SEATTLE — After 26 years of open storage at Paine Field, Everett, the Museum of Flight‘s 1959 Boeing B-52 bomber will be moved to the museum’s West Campus at Boeing Field in Seattle in early June. Not flight worthy, the plane was disassembled for shipment and most of the parts were recently delivered to the […]
Clay Lacy hosts 1,500 students for Van Nuys Airport Aviation Career Day
LOS ANGELES — Clay Lacy Aviation recently hosted 1,500 high school students at the 13th Annual Aviation Career Day at Van Nuys Airport (KVNY) in Los Angeles. Called “The Sky Is the Limit,” the event is co-sponsored by Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nury Martinez, Los Angeles World Airports, and the nonprofit Valley Economic Alliance, and supported […]