On This Day in Aviation History: December 18th
Happy birthday to Airbus! Also, the first ever international airplane flight, a FedEx MD-10 crashes in Memphis, and more...
Airbus Successfully Completes First A350 Flight
In the early morning hours of Friday, Airbus A350 “MSN1” climbed into the skies over Toulouse for the very first time. The first flight, just days before the 50th Paris Air Show, is a huge milestone in the A350 prog...
September 15th in Aviation History
The F-86 Sabre sets a world speed record, Wilbur Wright makes the first turn in an airplane, Nikita Khrushchev and a Tu-114 land at Andrews Air Force Base and more...
United Airlines Fined Nearly $600K Over Flawed Drug Test Procedures
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Friday proposed to assess a civil penalty of more than half a million dollars against United Airlines for allegedly violating FAA and DOT regulations for random drug and alcohol testi...
Northern Canada Float Plane Crash Kills 5
Five people were killed when a DHC-2 Beaver float plane used by a hunting lodge to transport guests crashed into a lake in northern Saskatchewan on Thursday.