Posted: 10:17 AM American Airlines says passenger seats on a third flight came loose during flight and it's continuing to inspect other jets with similar seating.

Posted: 11:53 AM 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.

Updated: 7:10 PM At a speech Thursday, Tom Buffenbarger gave high praise to one aviation company while voicing concern for another.

Updated: 10:30 AM Setup almost complete at Wings Over McConnell.

Updated: 7:13 PM 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.

Posted: 8:31 AM 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.

Posted: 6:44 AM The trade body is looking for $12 billion in sanctions, saying Boeing received illegal subsidies.

Updated: 2:06 PM 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.

Updated: 12:20 PM 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.

Posted: 8:41 AM 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.

Posted: 2:44 PM The plane employs more than 265 bombs and rockets, and firing 3,000 rounds from the AT-6's 50-caliber guns.

Posted: 11:02 AM The government says the number of long delays in July involving planes stuck on airport tarmacs was more than the previous eight months combined.

Posted: 11:34 AM The Chicago Department of Aviation is looking for a few good goats.

Posted: 1:24 PM 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.

Posted: 9:25 AM 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.

Posted: 11:18 PM New drawings are released to the Wichita City Council showing new features of the proposed improvements at Mid-Continent Airport.

Posted: 8:05 PM A SpiritAerosystems employee has died one day after an accident at the Wichita plane manufacturing company.

Posted: 12:45 PM American Airlines and Southwest Airlines say customers encountered problems booking flights today because of a glitch in their reservations systems.

Updated: 11:11 AM Hospital officials tell KAKE News the patient remains in critical condition.

Posted: 9:47 AM Idaho authorities say the pilot of an airplane flying over a Republican party gathering had been dropping rolls of toilet paper before it crashed.

Posted: 12:41 PM The executives from such companies as Lockheed Martin Corp., Raytheon Co., Boeing Co., and Northrop Grumman Corp., said the looming cuts had not affected current contracts.

Posted: 1:54 PM A love triangle may have led to the hoax threat that prompted authorities to turn around a US Airways flight that was on its way from Philadelphia to Dallas yesterday.

Posted: 11:53 AM Hawker Beechcraft has asked the bankruptcy court for permission to sell a strip of highway frontage to the city of Wichita for $2.9 million.

Posted: 11:21 AM In an interview with Flightglobal that took place Wednesday, company Chairman Bill Bositure said the purchase agreement “is going to happen in the next few days.”

Updated: 1:24 PM Bankruptcy lawyers for Hawker Beechcraft are seeking nearly $1.7 million in fees and expenses for their work in July.