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As anticipation builds over the pending certification of the first very light jet, the Eclipse 500, “There’s a new sense of legitimacy for the idea of pers

In one of the FAA’s more unusual program launches, agency Administrator Marion Blakey publicly announced last month the formal launch of the nationwide ADS

The FAA listed reasons why it believes that the 15-percent landing distance safety margin policy is needed: • The agency surveyed operators’

After a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 ran off a snowy runway while landing at Chicago Midway Airport on December 8 last year, the FAA launched an inter

Israel Aircraft Industries 1124 Westwind, Georgetown, Bahamas, May 24, 2006– The Westwind ran off the side of the runway when making an emergency landing a

Eurocopter AS 355F1, Andover, England, Dec.

Cessna 525 CitationJet, Murfreesboro, Tenn., May 16, 2006–Nashville Approach cleared the Interstate Warehousing CitationJet for a visual approach to Runway

MBB BK 117, Ponce de Leon, Fla., June 22, 2006–Landing off airport, about 10 miles north of Ponce de Leon, the skid-equipped BK 117 hit trees and was subst

Cessna Citation 560 Ultra, Upland, Calif., June 24, 2006–The pilot of the Aero Charter Services Citation Ultra canceled his IFR clearance when he saw Cable

Mitsubishi MU-2, Fort Pierce, Fla., June 25, 2006–The pilot of MU-2 N316PR was killed when the airplane crashed shortly after takeoff from Saint Lucie Coun

Reims Cessna F406, Inverness, Scotland, Oct.

Raytheon Beech King Air 200, Dulles, Va., Oct.

Excel-Jet Sport-Jet, Colorado Springs, Colo., June 23, 2006–Pilot James Stewart and mechanic John Welty were seriously injured when the prototype Sport-Jet

Cessna CitationJet 525, Old Bridge, N.J., July 17, 2005–The NTSB blamed the crash of the Cessna CitationJet on the pilot’s improper preflight planni

Aero Commander 690, Temecula, Calif., Oct.

Swearingen SA226TC, Casper, Wyo., Feb.

Bombardier CL-600 Challenger, Aspen, Colo., Feb.

Cessna 208B Caravan, Vilanculos, Mozambique, June 30, 2006–The Caravan charter was approaching Vilankulo Airport at night when it crashed abo

Cessna Citation 560, Cresco, Iowa, July 19, 2006–The pilot and copilot of Citation N636SE, registered to Tomco of Nashville, Tenn., were killed on l

Pilatus PC-12, Big Timber, Mont., June 25, 2006–PC-12 N768H crashed shortly after takeoff from Big Timber Airport (6S0) and the two people on board were ki

Cessna 560 Citation Ultra, Hamilton, Mont., July 10, 2006–According to the FAA report, Citation Ultra N50CV was landing at Ravalli County Airport wh

Bell 206L-3 LongRanger, Taos, N.M., July 12, 2006–An NBC Channel 4 Eyewitness News helicopter, operated by AeroWest Helicopters of Albuquerque, N.M.

Landmark Aviation completed a $300,000 upgrade of its Dulles International Airport FBO interior in June, marking another in the FBO chain’s series of new f

Bombardier Learjet 55, Van Nuys, Calif., July 15, 2006–Learjet N554CL, operated by Clay Lacy Aviation, suffered an in-flight fire while on approach

Mercury Air Centers opened its new FBO terminal at Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport (PHF) on June 7, with new general manager Mike Agee at t

Bell 206B JetRanger II, Walford, Iowa, June 30, 2006–A cameraman was killed during the shooting of a movie when the JetRanger used for the filming h

• The dog days of August descended on the Capitol right on schedule, and Congressional lawmakers escaped the doldrums as they usually do–by recessing for t

In mid-June, longtime Houston Hobby FBO Enterprise Jet Center opened a new 300,000-sq-ft FBO facility fronted by a 10,000-sq-ft canopy large enough to fit

Self-described as “America’s Fuel Stop,” Flower Aviation at Salina Municipal Airport in Kansas held a grand opening for its new customer service center on

Reductions to NASA’s aeronautics budgets are undermining critical research for the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS), according to Dr.