Rob Chartrand

[FL360aero @fl360aero]

NTSB COMPLETES MOST ON-SCENE INVESTIGATION WORK IN DEADLY LEARJET 60 CRASH – MAJOR AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS RECOVERED

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has completed most of its on-scene investigative activities following the November 1 crash of a Learjet 60 near Greenacres, Palm Beach County, Florida, which claimed the lives of all nine people aboard.

In its November 8 update, the NTSB confirmed that investigators have recovered and identified significant portions of the aircraft, including:

✈️ Components from both wings
✈️ Parts of both engines
✈️ The flight deck (cockpit)
✈️ Vertical and horizontal stabilizers
✈️ The left elevator
✈️ Sections of the ailerons
✈️ Multiple flap-track assemblies

Some of the recovered components have been transported to the NTSB laboratories in Washington, D.C., for detailed technical examination.

FIVE AREAS CLEARED BY INVESTIGATORS

The agency has completed its on-scene investigative activities in five surrounding locations:

- Green Acres Mobile Home Community
-Reading Truck
-Silver Oaks Plaza
-Value Store It Self Storage
-John I. Leonard High School

However, the investigation at the main impact site is far from over. Excavation of the impact area remains underway as investigators continue searching for and recovering additional aircraft wreckage.

NTSB ISSUES WARNING TO THE PUBLIC

Investigators have urged residents who discover aircraft debris not to keep, move, alter or dispose of it.

Anyone who has found possible wreckage is requested to contact the NTSB at [email protected], preferably with photographs, so the agency can arrange its recovery.

The Learjet 60, operated by Aurora Aviation doing business as Upper Jet, was flying from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas to North Eleuthera Airport in the Bahamas when it crashed near Greenacres.

The investigation remains ongoing, and the recovered components could provide important evidence in reconstructing the aircraft's final moments and determining what led to the disaster.

The wreckage recovery continues. The search for answers is far from over.

#NTSB #Learjet60 #AviationAccident #Greenacres #Florida #AviationSafety #AircraftInvestigation

[Aviation Reporter @TripppleSeven7]

No Nose Gear. Strong Crosswinds. One Incredible Landing!
Imagine this: strong crosswinds, visibility dropping, and your PC-12’s nose gear won’t come down. That means a precise approach, fighting gusts the whole way down, keeping the nose high for as long as possible, and then a gentle touchdown on the main gear. The crew stayed calm, flew a precise approach, and landed it safely on the mains, using every bit of their training. No drama on the ground, just professionals doing their job. Hats off! 🛩️

[Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum @CWHM]

These aircraft are an important part of our history that remember those who served, the sacrifices they made, and the importance of the freedoms we enjoy today.
We invite you to join us or watch our live broadcast as we take a moment together to remember.
Lest we forget. 🇨🇦🌹3/3

[Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum @CWHM]

Weather permitting, some of our historic aircraft, including our Avro Lancaster, will take to the sky for a Remembrance Day flypast. For many, hearing these aircraft is a moving reminder of the Canadians who flew them during WW2, and of those who never returned home. 2/3

[Aviation Reporter @TripppleSeven7]

Spin training is about four seconds of chaos followed by a lesson you never forget. The nose drops, the world rotates, you pull the power, stop the yaw with opposite rudder, and push forward. Then the horizon comes back and you realize the airplane was never out to get you.🛩️🛩️

[Aviation Reporter @TripppleSeven7]

Learjet 60 high-speed rejected takeoff✈️
Watch the rollout: both thrust reversers come out while the jet is still moving fast, and you can see the blue surfaces of the clamshell doors on each PW305A engine. The numbers matter here. At typical weights, the Lear 60’s V1 sits somewhere in the low-to-mid 120s kt, with Vr a few knots above it. Weight, flaps, temperature and runway length all move those figures. Below about 80 kt, you can reject for almost any abnormal. Between 80 kt and V1, the bar is much higher: engine failure, fire, loss of directional control, or something that makes the aircraft unsafe to fly. Past V1, the decision is already made, and you fly the airplane.

[Cecilia @cecilia_hl1584]

Lockheed P-38 Lightning...
©️Kasumi Rose

[Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum @CWHM]

Join us on November 11 at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum for our special Indoor Remembrance Day Service as we gather to honour and remember the brave Canadians who served and sacrificed for our freedom.
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[Druid Works @Druid_Works]

Enhanced, Colorized, Sound Design WWII footage: On 9 April 1944, P-47 pilot William W. May of the 78th FG attacks an Fw 190. An explosion in its left wing blows the wing off, possibly caused by detonating ammunition.

#WWII #P47 #Fw190

[Polish Heritage Flight @FlightPolish]

@PharmaManX Our dream was for one day, Poland to have a permanent ‘Memorial Flight’ - In a way like the Royal Air Force have the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at RAF Coningsby. A flying living memorial.

[Druid Works @Druid_Works]

RAF Spitfires strafe enemy shipping during WWII.

Gun-camera footage captures low-level attacks against vessels, offering a pilot's-eye view of the action.

Colourized, enhanced and given custom sound design by Druid Works.

#WWII #Spitfire #RAF #GunCamera

[EAA @EAA]

Sometimes the variant becomes the favorite. 👀

That was certainly the case for the Highlander. Developed from the Escapade, it quickly gained a dedicated following. By 2013, Just Aircraft reported that the Highlander was outselling the Escapade 10 to 1!

📸 Connor Madison

#Aviation #Avgeeks #AviationLovers #Aviation4u

[Polish Heritage Flight @FlightPolish]

We are delighted to announce that the Polish Heritage Flight has donated a superb 1:48 scale model of an Avro Lancaster to the Polish Bomber Squadrons Centre at RAF Ingham.

Built with skill and care by members of the West Midlands Police Scale Model Club, this detailed model has been presented to the museum to help tell the remarkable story of 300 (Masovian) Squadron – the only Polish squadron to operate the Avro Lancaster.

While RAF Ingham itself never operated Lancasters, 300 Squadron did serve there, flying Vickers Wellingtons on bombing and mine-laying missions between 1942 and 1944 before converting to Lancasters at RAF Faldingworth in March 1944. The model therefore creates a powerful link between the squadron’s time at Ingham and its later Lancaster operations. 300 Squadron were the first Polish Squadron to be formed in July 1940 and served right through until January 1947.

Volunteers from the RAF Ingham Heritage Centre recently restored the memorial at the former RAF Faldingworth, further honouring the crews who flew from there. It was rededicated in May 2026.

You will find the new 1:48 scale Lancaster model on display inside the full-scale Lancaster nose section – an extraordinary creation by artist Suhail Shaikh, made entirely from card. Photographs of the model in its new home were kindly taken by Ingham volunteer Simon Massey.

The Polish Bomber Squadrons Centre at the RAF Ingham Heritage Centre in Fillingham, Lincolnshire, is the world’s first museum dedicated exclusively to the Polish Air Force bomber squadrons that served alongside the RAF during the Second World War. Housed in the restored wartime airmen’s mess of the former RAF Ingham (later Cammeringham) airfield, the centre was created over 14 years by local volunteers and officially opened in April 2024 by 104-year-old veteran Mieczysław Frąckiewicz (John Franklin). It features bilingual exhibitions of rare photographs, personal artefacts, a reconstructed post-war Polish Resettlement Nissen hut, a full-scale Lancaster cockpit model, and memorials honouring the aircrew who served and those who were lost.

A huge thank you to the West Midlands Police Scale Model Club for their outstanding craftsmanship and generosity, to Suhail Shaikh for his remarkable card sculpture, and to the team at RAF Ingham for continuing to preserve and share this important history.

Plan a visit to the Polish Bomber Squadrons Centre – it is a fitting and moving tribute.

Remember. Inspire. Unity.

@RAFIngham
@PolishEmbassyUK
@polandww2
@britishpoles

🇵🇱🇬🇧 #PolishHeritageFlight #RAFIngham #300Squadron #AvroLancaster #PolishBomberSquadrons #LestWeForget

[Just A Plane Person 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇦🇺🇬🇧 @CF101B]

Montreal was briefly possessed by Demons!
RCAF 407 SQN CP-140

Credit: In photo

[Ron Eisele @ron_eisele]

Produced in November 1941, AA963 'Borough of Southgate' was one of the first examples of Spitfire Mk. Vc produced by the Supermarine factory. It first flew 8 November 1941.

[Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum @CWHM]

At 11:00 am on November 11, Canadians across the country pause to remember those who served and sacrificed for our freedom.
At the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, we also mark that moment with a special airborne tribute. 1/3

[Just A Plane Person 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇦🇺🇬🇧 @CF101B]

From another site:

A remarkable piece of Canadian aviation history at YYC this evening!

De Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou, serial number 002, arriving from Rexburg, Idaho, ahead of a De Havilland Canada employee event at De Havilland Field near Strathmore, Alberta, tomorrow.

[Aero vance @Aerovances]

This is cockpit belong to what aircraft.