aeronautics

A plane was reportedly diverted from Bradford Regional Airport to Erie International Airport on Monday evening, according to a report from Erie News N...

MOUNT ALTON — The United States Department of Transportation has re-selected Southern Air Express to provide Essential Air Service at the Bradford Reg...

Chief Pilot Dennis Crandall, right, and pilot Jim Havens of Mercy Flight of Western New York, brought one of the company’s new aircraft, a Bell 429 wi...

AIR DAY : We promised readers some more observations from Bradford’s “air day,” the day commercial flight service began at the Bradford-McKean Airport...

PLATINUM : The 70th anniversary is traditionally platinum, but in this case, we’re calling it an “air” anniversary. That’s because Sept. 8, 1948 was t...

SMETHPORT — U. S. Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson, R-Pa., has announced a federal grant that will help Bradford Regional Airport make equipment upgrades and ...

MOUNT ALTON — Southern Airways Express continues to make its presence known in the area with such public activities as the "Customer Appreciation Part...

PLANE FACTS: The business of flight was such big news in Bradford that The Era at one time had a section dedicated to sharing tidbits of the industry,...

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Super... nevermind, it actually is a plane. Amidst the vast acreage of foliage in McKean County lies what some conside...

ONE TRILLION: Larry Fay of Anchorage, Alaska, wrote back to let us know he read Denny Ordiway’s response to his oil industry suggestion. “He, his twin...

AIR RAID SIRENS UNDERGO TESTS: 76 years and 4 days ago, with the calamity of brutal fighting in World War II taking place, The Bradford Era reported a...

Work is underway on a large, technologically advanced McKean County state police barracks at the Bradford Regional Airport. Employees of Duffy Inc. of...

MOUNT ALTON — After considerable discussion Wednesday, members of the Bradford Regional Airport endorsed Southern Air Express, the low-fare carrier, t...

A helicopter being used in construction of new power lines hit a wooden power line support structure when it crashed and killed two workers April 8 ne...

MOUNT ALTON — The Bradford Regional Airport Authority accepted the bid Wednesday from Bob Cummins Construction of Bradford for the rehabilitation of t...

The pilot of the helicopter involved in Sunday’s crash has been identified as Chase Olsen, a resident of the State of Utah. A GoFundMe circulating on ...

The Investigation is continuing into a helicopter crash that killed two people and injured another man Sunday near Smethport. The Federal Aviation Adm...

McKean County Coroner Mike Cahill released the names of the men killed in a helicopter crash Sunday afternoon in a remote area of Keating Township, no...

Two people were killed and a third injured in a helicopter crash Sunday afternoon in a remote area of Keating Township, north of Smethport. Reports fr...

MOUNT ALTON — An official of Southern Airways Express, the low-cost airline that serves Bradford Regional Airport with daily non-stop flights to Pitts...