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  • Senate panel OKs initial tanker funding

    BY ERIC ROSENBERG, Hearst Newspapers

    An Airbus consortium cleared a key legislative hurdle this week when lawmakers announced that the Senate Armed Services Committee has approved start-up funding for a new fleet of Air Force tankers.

  • Garmin to open support office at Mid-Continent Airport

    BY MOLLY MCMILLIN, The Wichita Eagle

    Avionics manufacturer Garmin International is opening a support office at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport. The office will support Wichita aircraft manufacturers that use Garmin products and will help support future new business, the Olathe company said.

  • Mo. Senate OKs Bombardier lure

    Eagle staff and news services

    The Missouri Senate on Thursday approved a $240 million tax-credit program that state officials hope will lure Bombardier Aerospace to build an assembly plant in Kansas City.

  • FAA certification for training goes to WATC

    BY PHYLLIS JACOBS GRIEKSPOOR, The Wichita Eagle

    Wichita Area Technical College has taken over from Cowley College as the providing institution for aircraft maintenance technology in Wichita.

  • Bombardier looks at Mo. for plant

    BY KEVIN COLLISON, Kansas City Star

    The top executive of Bombardier Aerospace was in Kansas City, Mo., on Wednesday to scout a site for his company's potential aircraft assembly plant, while Missouri lawmakers continued to wrangle over incentives.

  • 70 tech scholarships await seniors

    BY PHYLLIS JACOBS GRIEKSPOOR, The Wichita Eagle

    Wichita Area Technical College will offer full-tuition scholarships to 70 Sedgwick County high school seniors, officials announced Tuesday.

  • Boeing's 787 delays scarcely affect Spirit

    BY JERRY SIEBENMARK, The Wichita Eagle

    Boeing's problems with the 787 did not have a big effect on Spirit AeroSystems' first quarter in 2008, as the Wichita-based manufacturer turned in higher-than-expected financial results Tuesday.

  • United, US Airways flirt with merger

    BY DAVE CARPENTER, Associated Press

    Moving quickly after being left at the altar by Continental Airlines, United Airlines stepped up talks with US Airways and was moving toward an agreement Monday on joining forces to create what could be the world's largest carrier.

  • Dirt-cheap fares cool as airlines restructure

    BY JULIE JOHNSSON, Chicago Tribune

    Kiss good-bye the era of $34 airfares to the East Coast from Chicago, and $200 fares to Europe. The U.S. airline industry is undergoing a radical makeover and the first casualty, observers say, is the ultralow pricing that has sent Americans to the skies in record numbers but left carriers struggling to stay in business.

  • Senate says no user fees for general aviation

    Associated Press

    In a victory for the small aircraft industry, Senate lawmakers on Friday agreed not to include user fees on general aviation in a bill to upgrade the nation's air traffic control system.

  • FAA falsely classified many errors

    BY DAVE MONTGOMERY, McClatchy Newspapers

    The Federal Aviation Administration, already under fire from Congress for its handling of airline safety, faced more controversy Thursday following disclosures that FAA officials in Texas were involved in the intentional misclassification of errors by flight controllers at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.

  • Sebelius signs bill for Cessna factory funding

    BY MOLLY MCMILLIN, The Wichita Eagle

    Calling it one of the best examples of a public-private partnership in her six years as governor, Kathleen Sebelius signed a bill Wednesday authorizing economic development assistance for Cessna Aircraft Co.

  • Boeing reports jump in earnings

    BY ASHLEY M. HEHER, Associated Press

    Boeing Co. reported a better-than-expected 38 percent jump in its first-quarter earnings, as it improved efficiency and recorded more orders for its aircraft.

  • Kansans in Germany to focus on networking

    BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle

    Several Wichita-area business and government officials will take part next week in a development trip to Germany that will end with a session with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

  • AirTran blames fuel costs for loss

    Eagle staff and news services

    AirTran Holdings Inc., which operates flights between Wichita and Atlanta, reported a first-quarter loss of $34.8 million after fuel costs rose to a record.

  • LEADERS BACK GLOBAL, NOT REGIONAL, PLAN

    BY FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press

    Aviation chiefs pledged Tuesday to address the industry's impact on climate change, but shied away from setting concrete targets for reducing emissions of global-warming gases.

  • Sebelius to sign Cessna bond bill

    BY MOLLY MCMILLIN, The Wichita Eagle

    Gov. Kathleen Sebelius will sign a bill Wednesday that will authorize economic development assistance for Cessna Aircraft. Sebelius will sign House Bill 2006 at an 11 a.m. ceremony at Cessna. The Legislature passed the bill earlier this month, giving Cessna a bond package of up to $33 million to build a plant in Wichita for its new Citation Columbus business jet.

  • GAO attorney is key in Boeing protest case

    BY ERIC ROSENBERG, Hearst Newspapers

    Boeing Co.' s push to overturn the Air Force decision to award an Airbus consortium the lucrative aerial tankers contract rests on convincing Guy Pietrovito.

  • Bombardier names a new leader for its aerospace division

    Bloomberg News Service

    Bombardier Inc. hired Guy Hachey from auto-parts supplier Delphi Corp. to lead its aerospace unit, company officials said Friday. He replaces Pierre Beaudoin, who takes over as head of the company in June.

  • Air Force wants Boeing protest tossed

    BY MOLLY MCMILLIN, The Wichita Eagle

    The U.S. Air Force is asking the Government Accountability Office to deny Boeing's protest of the Air Force's decision to buy refueling tankers from Northrop Grumman.