Aviation news and analysis with Tower. FAA policy changes, industry trends, safety data, and what the headlines mean for the pilots who fly every day.
An F-22 Raptor pilot earned the Air Force's highest flight safety award after executing a successful belly landing following loss of a main landing gear wheel.
FAA controller shortfalls are driving clear-weather ground delays at major facilities, G100UL distribution lags its approval, and the 737 MAX 10 remains uncertified.
A fly visual segment marks where published instrument guidance intentionally ends mid-approach - what every IFR pilot must understand before briefing one.
The Jeppesen 10-9 airport page consolidates takeoff minimums, alternate requirements, hot spots, and runway data that FAA chart users find spread across multiple documents.
Turkey's Baykar Akinci UCAV successfully fired the İHA-300 air-launched ballistic missile at a maritime target 250 kilometers away, marking a threshold moment in unmanned aviation.
Epic Flight Academy is adding A&P test prep courses in Florida and Kentucky, addressing a projected global shortage of 610,000 aviation maintenance technicians.
Frontier Airlines will launch three routes from Orlando to Colombia in December 2026, marking the carrier's first-ever South American service and signaling new fare competition.
Joby Aviation and BETA Technologies are flying eVTOL aircraft in federally supervised North Texas airspace integration tests - a milestone every pilot should track.
Malaysia grounds Flying Doctor Service helicopter operations in Sarawak following a crash that killed five people, raising broader questions about safety in humanitarian aviation.
A federal appeals court upheld a Department of Labor ruling that Nicholas Air retaliated against a captain-in-training who raised safety concerns, confirming AIR 21 protections for pilots.
Twenty-five years after September 11 reshaped aviation forever, a look at what the attacks cost, what they built, and where the next era of flight is headed.
A 1956 de Havilland Chipmunk - former Canadian military trainer with full aerobatic capability - is currently listed on Aircraft For Sale.
A third arrest in the FLYT Aviation investigation brings the total charges to 20 counts of theft and one RICO count - here's what student pilots need to know.
The Air Force has committed 131 T-7A Red Hawks to Sheppard AFB, Texas, beginning the end of the T-38 Talon's 65-year run as the primary advanced jet trainer.
Ukraine's drone strikes on western Siberia - over 1,500 miles from the launch point - mark a turning point for long-range autonomous aviation with direct implications for every pilot.
Bye Aerospace's eFlyer Two has received an FAA Special Airworthiness Certificate, clearing the way for flight testing of the first purpose-built electric trainer.
GPS jamming and spoofing disrupted over 46,000 flights in Europe in 2023, and researchers are now testing Earth's magnetic field as a signal-proof navigation backup.
Two Indian aviation companies have signed preliminary agreements for 85 Russian Il-114-300 turboprops, a deal that reveals growing fractures in the global aviation supply chain.
A single behavioral change - deliberate blinking before reading the eye chart - can be the difference between passing and failing your FAA vision test.
The DOT's new Space Transportation Integration Task Force must solve how 10,000 projected annual launches integrate with the NAS before commercial space crowds out GA access.