Orders to U.S. factories fell in August, mostly because of a sharp drop in volatile aircraft orders. The decline offset an increase in orders that reflect corporate investment plans.
Former employees of a subcontractor of Hawker Beechcraft sued the company more than five years ago under the False Claims Act, which allows citizens to bring claims on behalf of the government.
An airport improvement project in Butler County is gaining altitude. The Augusta Airport is owned entirely by the city of Augusta, but city leaders there think it's time to form an airport authority and share the cost with Andover.
Sedgwick County commissioners have approved a $10,000 grant for this weekend's "Wings Over McConnell" air show but won't be using a special hospitality tent that was to come with the donation.
Spirit AeroSystems and the union representing its engineers are asking a federal court to dismiss the union's claims against the Wichita aircraft company over pension benefits.
The European Union has rejected the U.S. government's claim that it is complying with a World Trade Organization ruling against illegal U.S. subsidies to aerospace giant Boeing Co.
Investigators say a flight attendant forgot to take a gun out of her purse before leaving for work and the gun fired at Philadelphia International Airport as a police officer was trying to remove the bullets.
A new airline route helped the Garden City Regional Airport serve the number of passengers required to secure federal funding earlier than in the past.
A high-tech overhaul to the nation's air traffic control system is mostly on track to completion. But so far, it isn't producing the benefits that airlines and passengers expected.