Cockpit Horizontal Stabilizer Rudder 
Aerotime
MARCH 28, 2025
The trim on the horizontal stabilizer – the rear wing of the aircraft – was not working. The two thumps that signalled the beginning of the end of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 At 16:08, the cockpit voice recorder heard Captain Thompson saying, “I’m going to click it off. You got it?
Aerotime
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Parts that have been salvaged in the last 48 hours include the right wing, center fuselage, part of the left wing and left fuselage, significant portions of the forward cabin and cockpit, vertical and horizontal stabilizers, tail cone, rudder, elevators, TCAS computer and quick access recorder.
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Flying Magazine
MAY 2, 2025
The horizontal stabilizer structure adjacent to the elevator position where the counterweight plug would have been installed displayed dents and paint scrapes consistent with contact with the counterweight plug. The rudder was intact, although the bottom of the control was crushed. The elevator was intact and remained attached.
Vintage Aviation News
MARCH 19, 2025
(image via AirCorps Aviation) The larger, freshly painted parts shown here include the brake cylinders (lower left center), brake pedals above them, the vertical stabilizer fairing on the near right center, and the horizontal stabilizers center tube on the far right. The landing gear components were test-fitted before painting.
Vintage Aviation News
MAY 19, 2025
One of the largest remaining components, the aircrafts horizontal stabilizer, is currently undergoing a meticulous finishing process in the museums paint shop. Fabric-covered and treated with layers of Butyrate aircraft dope, the stabilizer will receive a protective silver dope coat followed by its final black paint.
Vintage Aviation News
JANUARY 30, 2025
A short 18 months later, on August 13, 1937, the XPB2Y-1 took to the skies for the first time, revealing plenty of room for improvement lateral instability was a major problem for the deep-hulled boat, so the single tail fin was augmented by two smaller fins on the horizontal stabilizers. Note the radome above the cockpit.
Pilot Institute
JUNE 4, 2025
A tailless aircraft is a fixed-wing airplane without a horizontal stabilizing surface. With this type of aircraft, the functions of longitudinal stability and control are incorporated into the main wing. A tailless aircraft may still have a fuselage and a vertical tail (fin and rudder). How does the tail do this?
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