Even though the propfan engine design offered 60% fuel savings, airlines showed little interest in propfan-powered planes. The McDonnell Douglas MD-94X was a planned propfan-powered airliner.

The Lockheed L-188 Electra first flew in 1957, and was the first large turboprop airliner built in the United States . Today, ...

The company's aim with the MD-11 was an attempt to revitalize its commercial aircraft fleet. But, of course, actually ...

The only non-civilian aviation accident in the ASN's list of the ten deadliest aviation accidents is an Ilyushin Il-76 that ...

You might not think that a wing breaking off a plane would actually be a best-case scenario, but it turns out they might do ...

The Aviation Institute of Maintenance gives a look at how the industry is working together on hiring more mechanics.

He told Bennington his plan, and the two began to look for a plane. Bennington found a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 Spirit Airlines fuselage — a plane body without wings — for auction. It was an ...

a pilot flying McDonnell Douglas DC-10 widebody airliners converted into tanker planes for a New Mexico-based company called 10Tanker. The DC-10 is one of dozens of aircraft assisting in fighting ...

Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force scrambled fighter jets upon spotting China’s GJ-2 armed drone near Okinawa for the first time.

(Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP) In this July 22, 1989 file photo cranes lift the tail section of United Airlines ...