Also: Las Cruces Airport Mgr Steps Down, Helicopter Crews Rescue 4, Jet It BK, San Francisco Runway Repair Van’s Aircraft checked off a major milestone just before the holidays hit, shipping the first two RV-15 wing kits to customers on December 23. Wing kit production will be blazing on through the end of the year, followed by a ramp-up in deliveries in January. The first kit went to Kevin Eldredge: a well-known Reno racer who was first in line to place a deposit when RV-15 wing kit sales opened at EAA AirVenture 2025. Cessna announced that a Citation Ascend was accepted by the first retail customer for the aircraft, marking the entry into service of Textron Aviation’s newest private jet on December 30, 2025. The aircraft was just recently granted its type certificate by the FAA on November 5. The first production Cessna Citation Ascend rolled off the line at the Textron factory in Wichita, Kansas in September 2025. Recent reports of NASA tossing decades of research materials into the trash have gotten a reality check in the form of multiple frustrated social media posts from agency administrator Jared Isaacman. Initial triggers were sparked by the controversial closure of the iconic Goddard Space Flight Center Library. All this — and MORE in today’s episode of Airborne-Unlimited!!!
