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Was the landing mishap that claimed the lives of both pilots of a Shorts cargo hauler bound to happen?

After having recently recalled more than 200 employees who were furloughed by the company in November, Mooney International has once again laid off the majority of its workforce and walked back promises of holiday pay, according to a Mooney employee in a story by the Kerrville Daily Times. Negotiations had been ongoing between a new […]

To pilots, airports are magical places. It’s where the dream of flight takes wing and becomes reality. Since 1903, the number of airports in the United States (and in the world) have grown steadily, though the exact number is hard to say. What constitutes an airport, anyways? Well, if you step outside the FAA’s airport […]

Plane & Pilot readers circled their tracks to look for their lost cell phone, and made an amazing discovery.

Learning to fly is a long process with a big price tag, but a great instructor can make all the difference.

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The crash of the tourist helicopter claimed the lives of seven people, including one who might have been a reluctant passenger.

The blast, which heavily damaged a Beechcraft development hangar, injured 11, one of whom remains hospitalized.

The decade from 2010 to 2019 for General Aviation was one of tremendous technological progress, from computer watches to autonomous flight control. Manufacturers also launched some amazing new planes, including a jet from Cirrus, the incredible globetrotting Gulfstream G650, a remarkable diesel twin, the DA-62, from Diamond, among others. At the same time we in […]

The story of civil aviation in the past decade has been one of almost limitless dreams, sometimes coming to life though sometimes, finding themselves face to face with very real limitations. Here, counting down to the number one story of the decade, are the top ten stories of the past decade.