An emergency locator transmitter (ELT) is a battery-powered device required to be carried aboard most general aviation aircraft. Senior Vice President of Media and Communications Senior Vice President ...

The FAA ordered the sudden prohibition of touch-and-goes, restrictions on parallel departures, and limitations on pattern work at Centennial Airport, near Denver, around the first weekend of October.

Joby Aviation Inc. has claimed a new milestone in aviation history after completing a fully autonomous transcontinental flight across the United States. The flight utilized a retrofitted Cessna 208 ...

AOPA members unanimously approved bylaw changes that represent the most significant update to the organization’s governance since its founding. Director of Public and Media Relations Director of ...

André Baumgartner remembers standing in front of a Civil Air Patrol airplane beside their father when they were six or seven years old, just after an orientation flight. It would be another two ...

Editor's note: This story was updated to reflect correct NBAA-BACE dates and location. AOPA regrets the error. The numbers reveal a workforce challenge that's far ...

After at least six years of repeated efforts to close Boulder Municipal Airport, the city of Boulder, Colorado, is now moving to pursue new grant funds to maintain the airport—all but ensuring it will ...

The FAA released the first major update of its Transition Plan to Unleaded Aviation Gasoline on July 30, revising with additional detail the roadmap for eliminating the use of tetraethyllead (TEL) in ...

Voters in Collier County, Florida, will select the five members of the Naples Airport Authority for the first time after a state law passed earlier this year stripped the city of the power to appoint ...

AOPA created the event to strengthen and expand the aviation workforce. Individuals stand to discover current and future job opportunities at the AOPA Aviation Career Expo, and employers across the ...

The FAA has released a new program that enables general aviation pilots to request, receive, and cancel instrument flight rules clearances directly in ForeFlight and Garmin Pilot—with no radio or ...

A legal fight unfolding in Colorado stands to either make it easier or more difficult for FBOs around the country to charge egregious hangar rents in apparent defiance of FAA policy, and Denver pilots ...