Federal Aviation Administration News

Construction bids for Hammond Northshore Regional Airport's control tower project came in more than $500,000 over budget, giving officials just 30 days either to come up with the additional funding or go back to the drawing board on the design.

A small plane headed toward Rome crashed near the Adirondacks on Friday evening.

Helicopters. They're certainly not going away anytime soon. But this week, with summer officially looming, East Hampton Airport manager Jim Brundige announced the airport would take some welcome and decisive steps to try and ease the burden of helicopter noise, if not eliminated, at least spread out in a more equitable fashion.

At least two people were killed in a plane crash off Route 29 near the Royal Mountain Campsites Friday, authorities said.

A small airplane operating as an Angel Flight has crashed in upstate New York, killing two passengers as investigators search for the pilot, who is missing.

After a possible UFO crash, mystery craft searches for the downed object in Massachusetts,in May 2013, as reported by UFO Sightings Daily.

University of Colorado research support member James Mach works on his laptop next to an unmanned aircraft system at CU s Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles in February.

All Nippon Airways, Japan's largest airline, will resume flying the Boeing 787 Dreamliner this weekend, a few days earlier than expected.

Many of us have heard about privacy issues with Websites and in general with the Internet.

A California-based company that hoped to land a federal contract for Carlsbad's subsidized air service is protesting the government's awarding of the contract to New Mexico Air.

A bill introduced on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, would tighten a voluntary flight curfew at Bob Hope Airport, seen in this file photo.

Branson, in remarks last week during a trip to Dubai, said the first public Virgin Galactic flight would happen Dec.

A plan devised by a task force to "spread the pain" of helicopter noise over three routes into and out of East Hampton Airport was supported by a majority of the East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday, although officials acknowledged it would make no one happy.

Federal authorities are investigating after a Boeing 747 on approach to Atlanta's airport lost parts from its right wing that landed on a woman's house in Clayton County.

The use of electronic devices by airline travelers in the United States has been surging over the past four years and grew again in the first several months of 2013, according to a new study from DePaul University's Chaddick Institute of Metropolitan Planning.

The slopes of Alaska's Gastineau Channel framed the single-engine Cessna 172RG Cutlass on descent into Juneau on the clear afternoon of May 30, 1998.

John Kirrane can't vote in East Hampton Town, but he believes his quality of life and potentially the value of his Noyac home have been so damaged by the East Hampton Airport that he can no longer stay silent.

A Hilton Head Island planning committee recommended Wednesday that Town Council deny a developer's plan to rezone a failed, 8.56-acre housing development off Beach City Road near the airport runway.

Nate Bernard is heading home to Fort Myers, Florida. He says when it comes to flying, safety comes first, but he also doesn't want to be delayed.

"It's kind of a sliver of the golf course, but it's an important sliver that requires some holes to move around to accommodate it," Dakota Golf Management's Tom Jansa said.