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On This Day in Aviation History: January 4th

A day of firsts: The Brooklyn Dodgers become the first baseball team to buy a plane, Pan Am launches the first all-cargo transatlantic service, a pope flies on a plane for the first time, Sputnik 1, the first satellite, falls o...
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Final Call
A UPS Airbus A300 (N166UP) delivering Christmas cheer to Des Moines

Final Call: Man Tries to Smuggle 247 Live Animals Onto Plane, Major Southwest and AirTran Unions Agree to Seniority Pacts

Pilots and flight attendants at the newly merged Southwest and AirTran have agreed to combine their seniority lists, travel sites are pissed at Google, more claims of dangerous radiation from TSA scanners, and more...
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Enthusiast News

FAA Clears Santa’s New NextGen-Equipped Sleigh for Flights

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety inspectors have given the thumbs-up for the reindeer-powered sleigh known as Santa One to fly on Christmas Eve so Santa Claus can deliver presents to children around the world. The ...
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Aviation News
The first South Carolina-built 787 moves to Final Assembly Position 3 early in the morning of Dec. 18, shortly after achieving weight on wheels for the first time

That Was Fast: Boeing’s First South Carolina-Built 787 Rolls Down Assembly Line

Barely two years after construction began on a second Boeing 787 production facility in South Carolina, the first Dreamliner to be built there has reached its "weight on wheels" milestone.
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Aviation News

Final Call: Virgin America Flight Attendants Remain Union-Free, Dirtiest Parts of the Plane Revealed

Virgin America's flight attendants vote against unionization, two Muslim men are suing Delta for kicking them off a plane, AirTran will soon dump its XM satellite radio systems, and more...
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