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Rankin Field was established by Tex Rankin in 1940 when he signed a contract with the War Department to open a school to train United States Army Air Corps flight cadets. . The "Rankin Aeronautical Academy, Inc." was established and in February 1941, the school began basic (level 1) pilot training in February 1941 at Mefford Field, located about six miles west of the still under-construction ...
Chris Rushing of Thousand Oaks, California, and Nick Macy of Tulelake, California, died after competing against each other in T-6 Texans, planes that were used to train pilots in World War II and ...
The aircraft involved was a Learjet 55 operated by Jet Rescue Air Ambulance.It had the registration number XA-UCI and was manufactured in 1982. [10] According to a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the aircraft departed on runway 24 from Northeast Philadelphia Airport at 6:06 p.m., en route to Springfield–Branson National Airport in Springfield, Missouri.
A pilot died after two single-engine planes collided midair on Sunday in Southern California, officials said. The planes, a single-engine Nanchang CJ-6 and a single-engine Yakovlev Yak-52 ...
Scripps News spoke with aviation expert Kit Darby who explained why certain technologies may have been disabled before the deadly crash near Reagan National Airport on Wednesday.
The AT-802U Sky Warden was developed from the Air Tractor AT-802, for the Special Operations Command's Armed Overwatch trial.A version of the AT-802 has been used for years eradicating coca leaf crops (used in the production of illicit drugs) and as a result was already outfitted with lightweight composite ballistic armored engine compartment and cockpit, called a "bathtub."
The pilot of a small plane made an emergency landing at Haggin Oaks Golf Course on Sunday, Aug. 4, said the Sacramento Fire Department. It slid across a putting green to rest at the course Super Shop.
Photos show a US F-35B operating on Japan's newly converted destroyer-turned-aircraft carrier off the Californian coast.