At 12:12:23 UTC today, Action Aviation Chairman Hamish Harding, Astronaut Terry Virts and crew made history by beating the world record for any aircraft flying over the North and South poles in a Qatar Executive Gulfstream G650ER aircraft.

A Qatar Executive Gulfstream G650ER is on schedule to create history later today when it lands at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Textron Aviation, through subsidiary Able Aerospace Services, said it has entered the Boeing 737NG landing gear aftermarket business.

The strategic tie-up was anticipated by many observers as Spirit is seen as the most well-off Tier 1 or Tier 2 aerostructures provider and about the only buyer.

Aviation Week pilot gets first-hand experience of the first emergency Autoland system for general aviation.

Thrush Aircraft, based in Albany, Georgia, has completed a 10-week restructuring and has new ownership and leadership.

Officials of the town of Dover Foxcroft, Maine, are considering whether to close the Charles A. Chase Jr. Memorial Airfield and use the site for a solar generating plant.

Interceptor Aircraft Co. has placed for sale the FAA type certificate, drawings, jigs, tooling and blueprints of the Interceptor 400, a pressurized single-engine turboprop, as well as the shared type certificate and tooling for the Meyers 200 piston-powered version.