The first Sport Pilot Tour, designed to ignite interest in the new category of flying, takes off in June. First stop is Marysville, Calif., as part of the Golden West Regional Fly-In June 3-4. It’s then on to St. Louis... Continue Reading →
TV news helicopters come under fire
Posted on March 25th, 2005 by Meg Godlewski
This just in: Noise complaints at the Hayward Executive Airport (HWD) in the San Francisco Bay Area are now focusing on one segment of general aviation: helicopters used by news gathering organizations. Continue Reading →
The Texas Fly-In to set down in Hondo in May
Posted on March 25th, 2005 by GAN Staff
The Southwest Regional EAA Fly-In, known as the Texas Fly-In, is billing itself as a Texas-sized celebration of a little-known American privilege: the freedom to build your very own airplane. A wide variety of airplanes from homebuilts to warbirds will... Continue Reading →
St. Helens roars to life (again)
Posted on March 25th, 2005 by GAN Staff
Pilots flying over southern Washington State and northern Oregon had to alter their flight plans on Tuesday, March 8, when Mt. St. Helens erupted for the second time in five months. Continue Reading →
FAA issues Challenger ice directive
Posted on March 25th, 2005 by GAN Staff
The FAA has directed operators of Canadair Challenger 600-series business jets to inspect their planes’ wings carefully for ice and frost before takeoff. The directive came in the wake of two recent accidents involving Challengers, where wing ice was a... Continue Reading →
Four more AWOS units installed in Colorado mountains
Posted on March 25th, 2005 by GAN Staff
Flying in the mountains of Colorado is now a little safer, thanks to the installation of four more Automated Weather Observing Systems by the Vaisala Group. Continue Reading →
What’s next for the Global Flyer?
Posted on March 25th, 2005 by Janice Wood
What’s next for the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer and its millionaire pilot Steve Fossett? Continue Reading →
Sun ‘n Fun to be site of early LSA delivery
Posted on March 25th, 2005 by GAN Staff
This year’s Sun ‘n Fun, slated for next month in Lakeland, Fla., will be the location of one of the first Light Sport Aircraft deliveries under the new Sport Pilot rules. That’s when Atlanta-based Hansen AirGroup LLC delivers the first... Continue Reading →
SJ30-2 bizjet receives critical FAA approvals ahead of schedule
Posted on March 25th, 2005 by GAN Staff
Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corp. recently achieved two milestones towards certification of its SJ30-2 business jet. Continue Reading →
Tortoise on final
Posted on March 25th, 2005 by Janice Wood
When the staff at the Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma, Wash., was looking for names for the zoo’s Radiated Tortoises, they wanted something that referenced speed — which tortoises do not possess — as sort of a joke. Since the... Continue Reading →
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