Private Jet Owners
For aircraft owners. Part 91K, Part 135, and what ownership actually costs.
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Aviation
Flying Starts Grading Pilot Gifts Before the Holiday Scramble
Flying has set up a judged roundup of presents for people who fly, called The FLYING Gift List. Submissions go to the magazine's editors, who rate the…
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Aviation
The Voice on Frequency Is Being Told to Flag What It Sees
A new column in Flying, written from the controller's side of the radio, argues that the people working your clearances should treat raising a concern…
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Aviation
The Army Takes Delivery of Garmin's 1,000th King Air Glass Panel
Garmin has now put its G1000 into the panel of a thousandth King Air, and the aircraft that carried the count over the line was not a corporate turbop…
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Aviation
Tillamook Air Museum Sets Oct. 29 Reopening After a One-Dollar Change of Hands
The blimp hangar on the Oregon coast that houses the Tillamook Air Museum has passed to new owners, and the price on the deed was a single dollar. The…
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Aviation
Oshkosh 2026: A Jet-Powered WACO Gets the Frame
AVweb has chosen a jet-powered WACO biplane, captured at Oshkosh 2026, for its daily photograph. The pairing of a radial-era airframe with turbine thr…
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Aviation
FlyJets Puts a Software Agent on Charter Search
FlyJets has added an artificial-intelligence tool it calls JetGPT to its website and phone app, built to track down charter lift on a customer's behal…
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Aviation
The Launch Decision Begins at the Weather Briefing
Flying has published guidance for student pilots on reading the hourly surface observations and the terminal forecasts that cover their departure and …
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Aviation
Indianapolis Keeps Its Heliport
Rotor operators with business in Indianapolis will keep a place to land. The FAA has pulled back the sign-off it had earlier given for shutting down t…
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Aviation
The Owner-Flown Twin With Seven Seats and Single-Lever Engines
A 2017 Diamond DA62 has come onto the market, and Flying has singled it out as a top pick among its current listings. The airplane is a composite-airf…
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Aviation
Virginia Tech Takes Its Airspace Research Into Busier Skies
Virginia Tech is moving its "Smart Airspace" program into a new phase. The university will run trials of advanced aircraft procedures in airspace that…
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Aviation
Flying Issues Its August Shortlist of Gear and Services Worth an Owner's Attention
Flying magazine has published its August roundup of aviation products and services the editors consider deserving of a second look. The wire item does…
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Aviation
FAA Puts $2.9 Million Behind Heart Aerospace's ES-36 Turbogenerator
The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded Heart Aerospace a $2.9 million grant aimed at the powerplant side of its ES-36 program. The money is e…
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Aviation
Flight Training Scholarship Window Opens, and Applicants Have Homework to Do
Owners with a family member headed for a certificate, or a line pilot looking to add a rating, should note that aviation scholarship applications are …
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Aviation
Sikorsky Fits a Four-Aircraft Fleet Into One Shipping Box
Sikorsky has shown a new setup that puts four self-flying vertical-takeoff aircraft, plus the gear needed to run them, inside a standard 20-foot box. …
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Aviation
Texas From a Comanche Window Is AVweb's Picture of the Day
AVweb's Oct. 12 photo feature is a Texas landscape shot through the side glass of a Piper Comanche. The airplane is a piston single, so the frame is t…
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Aviation
West Palm Beach Owners Get a Bigger NetJets Building
NetJets intends to build a set of new terminals reserved for its own customers, and the one it already runs in West Palm Beach is on the list for a la…
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Aviation
NetJets to Grow Its Owners-Only Lounge at West Palm Beach
NetJets intends to build a set of new terminals reserved for the people who fly with it, and West Palm Beach is on the list for a second look rather t…
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Aviation
The Airplane That Still Sets the Standard Is a Trainer
Flying has opened its Hangar Files on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk and asks why the most familiar trainer in aviation keeps winning over pilots. That questi…
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Aviation
A 1990 Trinidad, With Its Avionics Brought Forward
A 1990 SOCATA TB-20 Trinidad is on the market, and its panel has been converted to glass displays, so the instruments are much newer than the airframe…
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Aviation
Hangar Candidate: A Replica of the First Wright Airplane Built in Quantity
A replica of the 1911 Wright Model B is for sale, and Flying has named it a standout among current AircraftForSale listings. The original was the firs…
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Aviation
Hangar Note: A Wright Model B Replica Makes the AircraftForSale Shortlist
AircraftForSale has picked a replica of the 1911 Wright Model B as one of its top listings. The Model B was the first Wright design built in series, t…
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Aviation
When the Lesson Isn't on the Syllabus
A flight instructor recently had to deal with something no checkride standard covers: a student who was afraid and hadn't realized it, and who was sti…
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Aviation
A Wright Model B Replica Is on the Market, for the Owner Whose Hangar Has Room for One More
A reproduction of the 1911 Wright Model B has been listed for sale, and Flying has singled it out as a top pick among the aircraft it tracks. The Mode…
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Aviation
Powrachute Asks the FAA for a Bridge While MOSAIC's Standards Catch Up
The powered-parachute builder Powrachute has filed a petition asking for short-term relief on certification until a revised ASTM consensus standard cl…
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Aviation
The Panel Is Doing More of the Work for the Newest Pilots
Flying reports that the current generation of cockpit design, with glass instrumentation and controls meant to be understood at a glance, is lowering …
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Aviation
Teens With a Story to Tell Can Earn $500 and a Mentor in STEM Next's 2027 Flight Crew
STEM Next has opened the application window for its 2027 Flight Crew, the youth ambassador program that takes applicants between the ages of 13 and 18…
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Aviation
Fall Color on the Ramp at Albany
AVweb's photo for October 9 is a seasonal one: autumn foliage framing the airfield at Albany, New York. For owners positioning through the Capital Reg…
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Aviation
Jet A and 100LL Hit a Half-Year Peak, and the Fuel Line Shows It
Owners closing out September's operating statements will find the fuel entry heavier than it has been in half a year. Both Jet A and 100LL climbed las…
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Aviation
Autonomy Just Flew Itself: Northrop's Talon Blue Takes Off With No One Aboard
Northrop Grumman has put its Talon Blue in the air for the first time under its own control, with no pilot in the loop. The Air Force carries the airf…
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Aviation
Piper M-Series Owners Have a Rudder Cable Bulletin to Clear
Piper has issued a bulletin asking that the rudder cables be examined on certain airframes across its M-Class singles: the M350, the M500, the M600 an…
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Aviation
The FAA Builds Redundancy Into Marine One Departure Notices
The FAA has put a second, redundant method in place for flagging when Marine One is about to depart, so that a single missed call no longer leaves the…
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Aviation
A Catalina Amphibian on the Ramp at Oshkosh
AVweb's photo of the day for October 8 shows a Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The -5A suffix identifies the amphibious version of…
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Aviation
Behind Every Load of Freight, a Trained Hand
Flying has put out a guide to the air cargo specialist, the trade that keeps freight moving through the system. The role exists on both sides of the f…
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Aviation
A Skywagon With the Big-Ticket Mods Already Paid For
Flying has singled out a 1974 Cessna A185F Skywagon in its AircraftForSale listings, and what earns the nod is the equipment rather than the airframe'…
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Aviation
Sixth Year Running, San Martin Puts Its Ramp on Display
San Martin Airport is hosting its annual community gathering again, now in its sixth year, and the format stays close to what owners based there will …
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Aviation
Your Next Maintenance Hire May Be in a Kansas Classroom
Textron Aviation is starting apprenticeships for Kansas teenagers who are still in school, and the company will pay them while they learn. The work co…
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Aviation
Phoenix Will Trial Honeywell's SURF-A Alerting in Airport Service Vehicles
Phoenix's city aviation department and Honeywell Aerospace plan to study Honeywell's Surface Alert system, known as SURF-A, at three airports the city…
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Aviation
Three Engines, One Taxiway: A TAT Tri-Motor Heads for the Runway
AVweb's picture of the day is a TAT Tri-Motor rolling out under its own power. The photo shows a ground movement on the way to a takeoff, the routine …
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Aviation
Tecnam Pitches the P2008JC NG as a Part 23 Replacement for U.S. Training Fleets
Tecnam has a Part 23 trainer, the P2008JC NG, and it is selling the airplane to schools in the United States. The pitch is about economics as much as …
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Aviation
SLC's Smaller Hangars Get a New Rent Number. Fifty-Eight Owners Should Budget for It
Salt Lake City International is raising rents on its general aviation hangars. The change reaches 58 tenants, all of them in the airport's T-hangars a…
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Aviation
Rehearse the Bad Day Before It Comes: A Teacher's Case for Owner-Pilots
The piece centers on a highly credentialed flight instructor and the lesson they leave with students: a pilot should work through contingencies before…
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Aviation
The Classroom Before the Cockpit: Methods That Keep Young Students Attentive
Flying has put together a set of tested methods for holding the attention of younger aviation students during classroom instruction and helping the ma…
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Aviation
A 2003 Falcon 2000 With the Pro Line 21 Retrofit Already Done
A 2003 Dassault Falcon 2000 is on the market through AircraftForSale, where the listing service has picked it out as one of its featured jets for ocea…
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Aviation
September Fuel Line: Jet A and Avgas Both at Their Highest in Six Months
Turbine fuel and 100LL both reached their highest prices of the past six months in September. The rise hit both sides of the ramp, so owners of a jet …
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Aviation
Honda's HA-480 Goes to FL470, and the FAA Is Writing Rules for It
The FAA has put forward a proposal for special conditions covering the HA-480 from Honda Aircraft, a design meant to cruise as high as Flight Level 47…
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Aviation
ForeFlight's New AI Agents Show Their Work, and the Pilot Keeps the Final Say
Jeppesen has added AI agents to ForeFlight. The company says the system works only from certified aeronautical sources and that users can trace, step …
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Aviation
A Place to Send Your Weather-Station Squawk
The FAA wants to hear from pilots when an automated weather station at their field is down or reporting numbers that don't match what's out the windsh…
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Aviation
Northrop's YFQ-48A Flew a Complete Sortie on Its Own, Starting From the Taxiway
Northrop's Talon Blue, carrying the designation YFQ-48A, has made its first flight at Mojave, California, and it flew the entire sortie itself. It mov…
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Aviation
Hangar B Gets a Work Party and a $50,000 Match Before Tillamook Reopens
The Tillamook Air Museum is asking for two things before it reopens: people to work, and money that a donor will match. A volunteer work party is set …
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Aviation
AOPA Stays on X After Hearing From the People Who Pay Dues
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has decided against leaving X and will keep posting there. The group confirmed the change of course to Flyi…
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