Allan McArtor, Airbus Americas Chairman, said Tuesday there are immediate plans to hire 60 engineers to work at the Old Town facility.

Boeing company leaders personally thanked Spirit employees for their tornado recovery efforts.

The company says it hopes to begin manufacturing components for the next generation of air tankers by fall.

Ken Stinson, Sr., is now among some of aviation's best-known names.

The list price is valued at $65 million.

The legal wrangling for a disputed $354 million contract to build a light air support plane to help security efforts in Afghanistan has returned to the courtroom.

Ten passengers are suing JetBlue over a flight during which a pilot had to be physically restrained after screaming about religion and terrorism. They claim the airline was "grossly negligent" in allowing him to fly.

Southwest Airlines Co. and its AirTran Airways subsidiary have launched a sale that includes fall flights starting at $99 per round trip.

Officials say a Southwest Airlines plane returned to Oakland International Airport just after takeoff after a smell was reported in the cabin and a flight attendant felt sick.

Cessna and Bombardier say they are part of the largest private aviation order in history .

The Airbus center had 27 employees when it first opened and now employs more than 350 people.

The Federal Aviation Administration says another small plane has been intercepted by the military for violating airspace restrictions during President Barack Obama's visit to the Los Angeles area.

Boeing officials have said moving its aircraft maintenance programs and jobs from others states to Oklahoma City would lower the company's operating costs.

A spokesman for Nigeria's aviation ministry says the country has "indefinitely suspended" the license of the air carrier involved in Sunday's crash in Lagos.

It's one of the largest disciplinary actions TSA has taken in the agency's 10-year history.

Emergency workers are using cadaver dogs and cranes to search for corpses at the site of an airplane crash in Nigeria's largest city.

Marvin Abbott has worked at Hawker for more than 61 years.

The National Transportation Safety Board hasn't yet determined the cause of the crash.

Officials say no one was hurt when the wing of a cargo plane taxiing at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport clipped the rudder of an American Eagle flight arriving from Missouri.

French investigators say the final report into the causes of the crash of Air France flight 447 will soon be published, three years after the jet went down in the mid-Atlantic killing all 228 people aboard.

A 3-year-old boy who refused to use his seatbelt never got off the ground when he and his father boarded an Alaska Airlines flight at an airport in Seattle.

Authorities say one person is dead and another injured after a collision between two agricultural airplanes in northeast Arkansas.

A Democratic-controlled Senate panel has approved a $2.50 increase in airline security fees that would double the per-passenger fee for those taking nonstop flights.

The union contends that Spirit should have negotiated with it before implementing a performance improvement process for employees whose evaluations decline.

The Federal Aviation Administration says it made "errors" by exempting cargo airlines from rules to prevent pilot fatigue and will revisit the issue.