Aircraft: Piper Seneca. Injuries: None. Location: Shelter Island, N.Y. Aircraft damage: Substantial. What reportedly happened: While attempting to land, the airplane crossed over trees at the runway threshold, then experienced a downdraft and decay in airspeed. It touched down hard and bounced. The right main landing gear broke off the airplane. The post-accident examination of the landing gear […]
What’s your story?
We tell stories. In 2014 we want to tell your story. This year, we will dive deeper into fewer subject. Don’t worry, we’ll still deliver the news and information you read General Aviation News for. But there are a few topics we want to expand, and need your help. January was DESTINATIONS. We included a […]
Air Force museum’s fourth building set to proceed
DAYTON, Ohio – After a brief delay, the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force’s fourth building is set to proceed. In December 2013, Turner Construction Co. of Washington, D.C., was awarded a $35 million contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District, to build a new 224,000-square-foot building — similar in size […]
Spartan names new CEO
TULSA, Okla. — Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology has appointed of one of its board members, Peter H. Harris, as its new president and CEO. Harris succeeda Jeremy D. Gibson, who served in that role for the past eight years. Gibson will continue on the board and remains actively involved in several key projects. […]
Pilgrim Aviation spreads its wings
Pilgrim Aviation is expanding in Massachusetts by adding a new base of operation for flight training in Taunton. An authorized Cessna Pilot Center headquartered at Plymouth Municipal Airport (PYM) with additional flight school operations at Nantucket Memorial Airport (ACK), Pilgrim is now opening offices at Taunton Municipal Airport (TAN). Providing flight training, airplane rentals, scenic […]
Raisbeck begins deliveries of swept blade propellers
SEATTLE — Raisbeck Engineering’s Swept Blade Turbofan Propellers are now being delivered after receiving FAA certification covering the entire King Air C90/E90 family. Jointly developed by Raisbeck Engineering and Hartzell Propeller, the Swept Blade Propeller design for the C90/E90 family follows closely after the 2013 introduction of the first swept propeller design certified for the […]
Lightspeed Aviation Foundation nominations due
Each year, through its Pilot’s Choice Awards, the Lightspeed Aviation Foundation recognizes a select group of aviation nonprofit organizations that are actively promoting growth in aviation or using aviation to aid in humanitarian causes. For this year’s awards, nominations must be submitted by midnight (PST) Jan. 31, while applications will be accepted until Feb. 3 […]
Cosmosphere slates open house
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center will hold it second annual Open House, Sunday, Feb. 9, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. “There are people in Hutchinson, Wichita and the surrounding communities who have either never been to the Cosmosphere, or who haven’t been in many years,” said Richard Hollowell, Cosmosphere Chief […]
All-star lineup at Women in Aviation Conference
Speakers for the 25th Annual International Women in Aviation Conference, which takes place from March 6-8, 2014, at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., include astronauts to the FAA administrator. “As fitting our 25th anniversary year, we went all out for this conference and our speakers,” says WAI President Dr. Peggy Chabrian. […]