Julie Boatman

As we collectively get back into the skies after a long spring, there’s still something missing for a lot of pilots: the promise of Oshkosh to anchor the summer’s aviation activities. But with lingering state and local restrictions pre-empting EAA AirVenture 2020, the association seeks to evoke the spirit of general aviation with a week […]

At its graduation ceremony for the Class of 2020 held on June 11, the Aerospace Center for Excellence at the Central Florida Aerospace Academy in Lakeland, Florida, announced the winners of a roster of scholarships intended to support the students’ continuing study in aviation and STEM fields. The eight scholarships granted totaled $110,000. The leading […]

Pilots who live in northwest Washington state know the airplanes that fly for Kenmore Air on sight—with their distinctive liveries, and the fact that a lot of them use the copious waterways and lakes in the region for takeoff and landing. Right now under the current restrictions, the company operates domestic flights only, with that […]

Though firmly rooted in aviation’s earliest days—it was founded in 1866—the Royal Aeronautical Society advances firmly into the future on a number of fronts. One of the most recent of these missions has been the opening of the society’s new National Aerospace Library Film Archive. Though the library itself—housed near the Farnborough airport in the […]

The Civil Air Patrol has inked a contract with Textron Aviation for 17 piston aircraft, including 11 172S Skyhawks, 5 182T Skylanes, and a T206HD Stationair. The aircraft join a fleet of nearly 550 Cessna aircraft on the CAP’s flightlines, and they were purchased using fiscal year 2020 funds. “From search and rescue, to disaster […]

Maybe you have a table made from an old piston and sheet of plastic gracing your hangar. Or the classic propeller making for excellent art on the wall of your office. I’ve personally kept the template of an instrument panel hanging up as a reminder of a restoration project’s blood, sweat, and tears. Aircraft parts […]

A proposed airworthiness directive stands to affect 6,586 Cessna 180, 182, and 185 models, driven by a report of cracks found in the tailcone and horizontal stabilizer attachment on a 185 that had displayed excessive play while undergoing maintenance. “After a detailed inspection, the tailcone reinforcement braces were found cracked on both sides of the […]

Superior Air Parts has responded to the FAA’s recent Notice of Proposed Rulemaking calling for an AD on its crankshafts for the SAP model O-360 and IO-360 piston engines, and certain Lycoming model AEIO-360, IO-360, and O-360 piston engines. The proposed AD would call for removal from service of affected crankshafts. The FAA initiated the […]

What’s one way to ease the pain of the enforced aircraft downtime prompted by stay-at-home orders or other current realities? If an aircraft owner had a panel upgrade planned for 2020, moving that installation up on the calendar clearly proves an effective use of time. At this time last year, the avionics industry was riding […]

The crewed SpaceX Dragon module positioned atop a Falcon 9 rocket at Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, successfully launched on May 30, at 3:22 pm EDT. The crew, NASA veterans Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, completed docking with the International Space Station on May 31 at 10:29 am EDT and […]