Aviation

SEATTLE, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) today announced Closed Joint Stock Company Azerbaijan Hava Yollari (Azerbaijan Airlines) has ordered Blended Winglets for its new Boeing 767-300ER and -300Fs.  Azerbaijan ...  

Jacksonville, Florida. On February 7, 2012, Vinhthuy “Moi” Hoang successfully completed his flight test for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued Commercial Pilot Certificate. Just a few days earlier, Hoang completed all of the requirements ...  

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating another incident in which someone pointed a laser at a plane. KMOX Radio (http://cbsloc.al/wxRnZB) reports that the latest incident happened Sunday evening as a 737 was about to land at Lambert Airport ...  

Authorities are currently searching for a small plane that may have gone down in Mississippi. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen says the single-engine plane was about 18 miles southeast of Tupelo when the pilot reported a problem Tuesday morning. Bergen says the plane was flying from Ocala to Olive Branch, Miss. The plane is registered to Buccaneer Aviation Inc., a Delaware corporation. Bergen says an alert was...  

Feb. 14--With a growing fleet of combat drones in its arsenal, the Pentagon is working with the Federal Aviation Administration to open U.S. airspace to its robotic aircraft. As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down, the military says the ...  

The 18-hour flight saw the aircraft - said to be Boeing's most fuel-efficient - travelling more than 10,000 miles from Washington State to Iowa as it traced out 787 and the Boeing logo in the skies above the U.S. Using satellite tracking information ...  

Dallas-Fort Worth faces the possibility of a critical shortage of experienced air traffic controllers, according to a report from the Federal Aviation Administration’s independent inspector general. But the FAA and a veteran controller in ...  

In what is being hailed as a victory by traveling musicians in the US, the latest reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration has codified provisions that create a uniform national standard for musical instruments being treated as carry-on luggage. This legislation establishes that any instrument [...]  

Labor unions are divided in their opposition to a bill funding the Federal Aviation Administration because of a provision that changes union election rules, according to a report in The Hill. Opponents fear it endangers their ability to organize. In a compromise, the Railway Labor Act was changed so that a percentage of a company’s [...]  

Sen. Maria Cantwell says a bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration includes a number of benefits for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The bill is expected to speed up the FAA's transition to a GPS-based air-traffic control ...  

For East Stroudsburg resident Leslie Harold Singer, seeing this photo in his Sunday newspaper was a flight into the past. His father, Harold Singer (of Singer Signs), had owned a Cessna 140 and a Cessna 172 Skyhawk and flew out of Hamlen Airport.  

Let’s understand what a Flight Simulation Software is then we will get to know what exactly has been on the minds of flight fanatics for years. Flight simulator reviews is a comprehensive analysis of various software systems that are used to express a false generation of air plane flight and numerous features of the flying [...]  

The AFM applauds the passage of the FAA Bill that sets a consistent national policy allowing musical instruments on airplanes After five years and 23 short-term extensions, Congress has passed legislation reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the next four years. Included in the bill are provisions that create a uniform national policy regarding musical instruments on airplanes. Any instrument that can be safely stored...  

The CEO of Philippine carrier Cebu Pacific, Lance Gokongwei, says he is optimistic that ICAO safety concerns about the Philippines’ aviation oversight will be resolved by year-end.  

With no last-minute rescue package, long-struggling Hungarian flag-carrier Malev ceased flying on Friday.