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Former Gulfstream and NetJets Aviation executive Bill Boisture has resurfaced at Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm The Carlyle Group as a senior a

The comment period was extended to July 1 for the FAA’s

Investigation has started into a June 2 accident involving Learjet 35 N182K, which crashed in Baker Cove a few hundreds yards short of the runway while try

With the failure of Congress to take any action in the contract dispute between the FAA and the air traffic controllers union, the agency arbitrarily put i

In the war of words between the airlines and general aviation about who should pay how much for ATC services, Pogo’s Robert Crandall argues that more of th

Very light jet air-taxi hopeful Pogo will likely “not launch operations before 2009,” according to company CEO and former American Airlines boss Robert Cra

NBAA and the Associação Brasileira de Aviação Geral (ABAG) disclosed yesterday that they have ‘deferred’ this year’s Latin American Business Aviation Confe

ADS-B-equipped aircraft will be back on ATC radar screens in Alaska after an absence of several weeks.

On Tuesday, President Bush sent to the Senate the nomination to the NTSB of Robert L.

As the user-fee battle rages, rhetoric from Air Transport Association member airlines is reaching vast audiences.

No sooner had Landmark Aviation celebrated its refurbished Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) FBO and maintenance facility last Thursday, than it turn

The NTSB’s recently released final report implicates errors and FAR violations in the Nov.

On May 15 last year a Citation CJ2 (Danish registration OY-JET) landed 1,000 feet down the 2,948-foot-long runway at Bader Field in Atlantic City, N.J., an

A new FAA policy will require Part 91, 121, 125 and 135 jet pilots never to land where available runway is not at least actual landing distance plus 15 per

DayJet, which plans to start per-seat, on-demand operations using Eclipse 500s in November, yesterday unveiled its five initial DayPorts (service cities),

Long-time Van Nuys, Calif.

Because international aviation regulators and aerodynamic experts failed again last week to reach agreement about the extent of the safety hazards created

The FAA issued special conditions that would apply to STCs of AmSafe inflatable seatbelts in a variety of general aviation airplanes, including Beech, Cess

A recent NTSB decision has sparked action by AOPA on behalf of Part 91 operators.

Sikorsky and China Aviation Industry Corp.

Starting July 1, 2008, all private and commercial airplanes operating internationally will need to carry at least one emergency locator transmitter, accord

Rules governing the construction of objectsthat could be an obstruction to safe aircraft operations might get a little more bite.

The DOT inspector general’s office will audit the FAA’s progress in implementing its controller workforce plan for hiring approximately 12,500 new controll

Platinum Jet Management has been slapped with a cease and desist order for the second time since the Challenger overrun accident at Teterboro Airport on Fe

New York’s state Senate last week passed legislation (S.3655) sponsored by Sen.

On Monday the NTSB posted its preliminary report o

Boeing might sell or shut down its Connexion in-flight Internet service after six years of failing to turn a profit on the business, The Wall Street Journa

AirCell is moving forward with plans for a nationwide network of about 200 special ground stations to support in-flight broadband services.

The FAA yesterday adopted a 2004 notice of proposed rulemaking amending airman medical standards so that a refusal to submit to a required drug or alcohol

DOT Secretary Norman Mineta on Friday announced he will resign July 7 after serving in the Bush Administration for more than five years, saying, “It is tim