On This Day in Aviation History: January 7th
China resumes flights to and from the US in 1981, Hubert Latham sets a new altitude record, speed records in American coast-to-coast and Australia-New Zealand, the first flight over the English Channel takes place in a balloon ...
Virgin America Pops DCA’s Perimeter Rule, Launching Flights from San Francisco
Call it “Redwood 1”, “VRD 1” or “VX 1”, the number 1 in a flight number signifies a flagship flight, and this certainly is one of those. NYCAviation was very privileged to be on the inaugural flagship Virgin America...
Fat Guy On a Little Runway: Boeing 787 Dreamliner Lands at Reagan National
Boeing's 787 Dream Tour made its way to an improbable destination on Monday -- Washington's Reagan National Airport -- a field that will almost certainly never see scheduled 787 service due to its size constraints.
Afghanistan to Open Third International Airport in Early 2012
Mazar-e Sharif International Airport, located near the capital of Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan, will be the country's third international airport when completed in 2012.
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.