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Sino Swearingen lost its chief test pilot, Carroll Beeler, Saturday morning when the SJ30-2 twinjet he was flying crashed in rugged terrain north of Del Rio, Texas. Beeler, 59, had taken off from San Antonio, and was alone in the airplane. A chase aircraft witnessed the crash and reported it. The jet was flying at 0.9 Mach when it crashed, according to the San Antonio News-Express. The SJ30-2 is being marketed as a high-performance, long-range, single-pilot-certified, seven-seat twinjet. The SJ30-2 will reportedly operate at altitudes up to 49,000 feet and maintain a “sea-level cabin” to 41,000 feet…

Orenda Recip, builder of a 600-hp turbocharged V-8 piston engine, has halted their program. Magellan Aerospace, the Canadian firms parent company, made the announcement amid struggles to win multiple STC approvals for the engine and a slumping economy…

Burt Rutan will offer two forums about flight in space at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh this summer….

AOPA invites all pilots to the grand opening of its new Pilot Facility at First Flight Airport, at the Wright Brothers National Memorial at Kill Devil Hills, N.C., on Saturday, May 10….

USPS awarded its first competitive contracts to airlines last week. Previously, all airlines got an equal share of the mail. Now the post office can choose the best price for the best service…

Airbus said Friday it sold 30 planes to Chinese airlines for about $1.7 billion.

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