Discover the story of the Learjet 23's first flight in 1963 and how William P. Lear's groundbreaking design helped create the ...

Discover the Shin Meiwa US-1A's origins with the first flight of the PX-S on October 5, 1967. Learn how this remarkable ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In yet another tragic aviation accident, Flydubai, agovernment owned low cost UAE based airline, crashed enroute from Dubai ...

The sixties saw a number of aviation records, with A Royal Air Force Avro Vulcan making the first non-stop flight from England to Australia on June 21, 1961. Boeing rolled out its first Boeing 727 ...

The historic Wichita Municipal Airport terminal, completed in 1935 with New Deal funds, was once the nation's fourth busiest airport and a significant hub for early aviation pioneers. After ceasing ...

Aviation stunts have a long and storied history, predating social media and regulatory bodies like the FAA, consistently performed for publicity and entertainment. Early aviation stunts included ...

Some two decades after the first U.S. Army helicopter units arrived in Vietnam, Army Aviation became a branch on April 12, 1983. As the Army celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Aviation Branch this ...

As late as the 1970s, the most common type of fatal aviation accident happened when a pilot in full control of the aircraft, but flying in poor visibility conditions or at night, lost awareness of the ...

She was a groundbreaking aviator who learned to fly after hearing tall tales from a pilot who’d crash-landed on her grandfather’s golf course in Warren Township, New Jersey. Later, she was one of the ...