KEYE Eagle Creek Airpark (315 acres) Indianapolis, IN Four Nearby Instrument Airports: [KIND] 7 S ; [8A4] 8 SE ; [2R2] 10 SW ; [KTYQ] 12 N ;(ave. distance: 9 nm) Total Based Aircraft: 127 (100 single-props, 20 multi-props) (5 … Continue reading
A recent pair of articles by Dominic Gates, at the Seattle Times, draws attention once again to the collaborated fraud known as ‘Greener Skies’. Fraud is not too strong a word. Both FAA and Port of Seattle (POS) knew that … Continue reading
The following table presents a chronology for the first quarter of 2016, showing all known ‘fatal’ U.S. civil aviation accidents, as well as a few selected non-fatal accidents and incidents. Data shows date (weekends are underlined), location, number of fatalities, … Continue reading
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KIND Indianapolis International Airport (7,700 acres) Indianapolis, IN Four Nearby Instrument Airports: [8A4] 7 NE ; [KEYE] 7 N ; [2R2] 9 W ; [KHFY] 11 SE ;(ave. distance: 9 nm) Total Based Aircraft: 49 (9 single-props, 12 multi-props) (25 … Continue reading
1958 was a very important year in U.S. aviation, when today’s FAA really took form, as the sole federal authority regulating U.S. civil aviation. That was 56 years ago. Now, as happens too often, this ‘agency’ has evolved into an over-matured bureaucracy: … Continue reading
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OPS11IA401On March 23, 2011, between approximately 0004 and 0028 Eastern daylight time, an air traffic control service interruption occurred at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) when two air carrier aircraft, a helicopter, an airport operations vehicle and controllers … Continue reading
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FAA History (main page) Monday, January 9, 1961:The Federal Aviation Agency released a report on the commercial supersonic transport (SST), prepared by FAA with the assistance of DOD and NASA. The report concluded that a Mach 3 (2,000 m.p.h.) transport … Continue reading