Flying News

Velocity Air Inc. was awarded a five-year contract to become a so-called "fixed base operator" at Ryan, 9698 W. Ajo Highway, which is managed by the Airport Authority along with Tucson International Airport.

While other five-year-olds around the world fold paper planes and toss them up in the air, this boy has just become the youngest person ever to fly a plane.

Shell recently became the first major oil company to develop a lead-free replacement for Aviation Gasoline , which will now begin a strict regulatory approvals process.

A central player in the nation's successful navigation of the global financial crisis, the soft-spoken 55-year-old admits he once faced a crossroads, wondering if guitar - not economics - was his true calling.

A young Kiwi is set to embark on an overland hot air ballooning journey through more than 100 countries.

Monmouth Executive Airport is under new management, after being sold to a group of aviation enthusiasts who want to make it a modern, upscale general aviation facility more attractive to corporate travellers.

Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Airlines empire, knows how to lose money: "I've always said the easiest way to become a millionaire is to start out as a billionaire and then go into the airline business."

A friend of mine built his own personal airplane. It was as beautiful as any plane I had ever seen.

It took some tugging for pilot Bob DeLong of San Clemente to pull one hairy passenger aboard a flight from Van Nuys to Bellingham, Wash.

Comparing the land mass of Solberg-Hunterdon Airport to LaGuardia Airport in New York City is obviously intended to create the false impression that runways the length of LaGuardia's can fit on the Solberg's property.

Plateau State Governor, Jonah Jang, Friday, renamed the State University after the late Chief Solomon Lar, who is regarded as the founding father of the old Plateau state.

FAA issue is simply keeping them from crossing airfield with control towers . The general aviation airfields is just another problem to work through.

Background: In the C-141 at the time, there was a three-position switch on the right side of the yoke.

The acquisition of the Hangar 10 aviation services facility increases the size of the Atlantic Aviation network to 63 fixed base operations throughout the US.

Teamwork might seem like a complicated subject, but to some creatures it comes naturally as a way to survive and to expend the least amount of energy.

However, the vast majority of potential passengers living in the airport's catchment area travel to Edinburgh or Glasgow for flights.

One of the JetBlue flights scheduled to leave Worcester Regional Airport Friday is among 12 that have been canceled because of dreary weather or mechanical problems since the airline began service here just a month ago.

Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport Commissioner Beth Pfingsten wrapped up six years of service Thursday with her final meeting as a commissioner.

That has cleared the way for deliveries of the new single-engine, all-composite general aviation aircraft in Brazil, deliveries that Cessna said began last month.

Shell has developed a lead-free replacement for aviation gasoline ; the replacement fuel will now begin a strict regulatory approvals process.