Pia Bergqvist

The 55th annual Stihl National Championship Air Races, set to take place at the Reno-Stead Airport outside Reno, Nevada, on September 12 through 16, is giving aviation enthusiasts many reasons to attend other than just to watch ultra fast airplanes of various types battling it out around the pylon courses. The Reno Air Race Association […]

Vintage airplane lovers have something to look forward to at the end of the month as the 2018 AAA/APM Invitational Fly-In at the Antique Airfield (IA27) runs from August 29 through September 3 near Blakesburg, Iowa. Also named “BTB Days, Back-to-Blakesburg and Back-to-Basics,” the event features stellar vintage airplanes alongside a beautiful 2,350-foot turf runway. […]

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association released its second quarter aircraft sales report, which showed mostly positive trends for the general aviation industry. The greatest growth was seen in the training market, a result of the apparent pilot shortage that is spurring a need for new airplanes for flight schools. This positive trend should continue for […]

Avidyne is helping customers who are using the mandated transition to ADS-B to also make upgrades their instrument panels. The company announced last week a promotional program that gives customers a $2,500 rebate when combining Avidyne’s IFD550 navigator with L-3’s NGT-9000 Lynx complete ADS-B package. L-3 is also including a free Lynx ADS-B Traffic Advisory […]

Clean sheet FAA certification programs have become known to take around a decade to complete. And the highly anticipated EPS Graflight V8 engine is no exception. The company formed in 2006 and began building the proof of concept high performance engine, which is expected to put out between 320 hp and 450 hp, in 2011. […]

More than four years after the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the Malaysian ICAO Annex 13 Safety Investigation Team for MH370 has released a 495-page report of its findings. At an August 30 press conference at the Ministry of Transport headquarters in Putrajaya, Malaysia, the team explained that despite years involved in the […]

Celebrating 70 years of airplane manufacturing, Kerrville, Texas-based Mooney International has launched several programs to help ease the path to ownership for the fastest single-engine piston airplane on the market. To help make ownership more predictable, the company introduced a promotion called “Fill and Fly,” essentially promising its M20U Ovation Ultra and M20V Acclaim Ultra […]

A group of four C-47s and DC-3s are flying as part of the airshow at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, this week in preparation for the big Daks Over Normandy reenactment of D-Day that will take place on June 2 through 6 of next year. The restoration of the airplane that led the massive group […]

Epic Aircraft announced it has completed the structural testing program for the Epic E1000 single-engine turboprop. The company has been flying two test airplanes, FT1 with more than 525 flight hours and the fully conforming FT2, which started flying in January, with more than 100 flight hours. Flight testing with designated FAA test pilots has […]

Lancair International, which recently relocated to Uvalde, Texas, under new ownership, announced a two-seat airplane kit at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Keeping with the ocean theme of nomenclature, Lancair named the airplane Barracuda. Lancair also produces the four-seat Mako. “The Barracuda is a 2/2/2 proposition – two seats and 200 knot cruise for only […]