Flying on September 11, an Air Force C-37 pilot recalls the moment America’s airspace shut down and the extraordinary days that followed at MacDill.

Turboprop airliners are not an uncommon sight at America’s airports. But the first turboprop transport to operate in the United States was a modern marvel, the Vickers Viscount. It bridged the gap ...

Thirty-one years have passed since the harrowing crash of USAir Flight 427 on the evening of 8 September 1994. I remember that evening with piercing clarity. It was a Thursday, one of those golden ...

Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 was flown by two cockpit crew members and attended to by two cabin attendants. Of the former, Captain James E. Reeves, 49, held type ratings on the Convair 240, 340, and ...

Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturing company in the 20th century. At one point, it was the world’s largest aircraft manufacturer. After 86 years, it ceased operations. How did one of the world’s ...

Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg used his appearance at the Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference in New York on 27 May 2026 to lay out what may be one of the clearest snapshots yet of Boeing’s near-term ...

Have you ever wondered how aircraft manufacturers deliver new smaller aircraft over long distances? What about ferrying them to the mainland for heavy maintenance checks? Generally speaking, aircraft ...

Although ‘the miracle on the levee’ doesn’t stick the same as ‘Sully’s Miracle on the Hudson’, TACA flight 110 was truly a miracle. On May 24, 1988, a brand new TACA Boeing 737-300 departed from ...

National Airlines got its start in 1934 when Ted Baker and his associate, Don Franklin, successfully bid for AM (Air Mail) Route 31 between St. Petersburg and Daytona Beach, Florida, via Tampa, ...

Was the proposed MD-12 Jumbo way ahead of its time or just a ‘Hail Mary’ attempt to keep airlines interested in an ailing company? Avgeekery explores the ‘why’ behind the failed MD-12 program.

F-4 Phantom fighter pilot ACE, Randy “Duke” Cunningham, has died at age 83. His decorated Navy career in the Vietnam war became the stuff of legend, after shooting down 5 enemy MiGs – and being shot ...

It Was the Golden Age of Air Travel when the brand new, shiny Boeing 707 Astrojet took to the skies for American Airlines.