Pia Bergqvist

The National Transportation Safety Board released its final report regarding the Icon A5 accident in May, which claimed the lives of two Icon employees, Jon Karkow and Cagri Sever. The accident took place on the shores of Lake Berryessa, the lake that Icon uses for training flights from its headquarters and training facility at the […]

With the agreement the City of Santa Monica made with the FAA earlier this year to shorten the runway at SMO and ultimately close the airport in 2028, the city is working quickly to shut out business jets from the embattled airport as soon as possible. This week, the city council approved a contract with […]

After only a little more than a decade in the business, turbine aircraft sales firm jetAVIVA continues to expand its breadth in the used aircraft market. Just about a year after the company acquired Kansas Aircraft Corporation, which focused on piston and turboprop sales, jetAVIVA has taken over Jet Quest – a Georgetown, Texas-based company […]

This month, a research program called SonicBAT II (short for Sonic Booms in Atmospheric Turbulence), is set to begin to help understand sonic booms and how to reduce the noise associated with supersonic flight. The program is a partnership between NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, Langley Research Center […]

I’m sitting on a remote dry lake bed in Utah, having a fabulous catered lunch consisting of a variety of scrumptious fresh berries, sandwiches and cookies. It’s as far from the hustle and bustle as you can get. The faintest wind gust is audible, and each step I take on the fine-grained sediment creates a […]

With the growing pilot shortage, there is an urgent need for flight instructors. One way King Schools and the National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI) are addressing the problem is through a generous scholarship to allow a flight instructor to further his or her education. “NAFI and King Schools understand that flight instructors are the […]

One of many announcements made at Garmin in the past week is that of two portable units that provide a new way to display data in the cockpit through SiriusXM and the ADS-B network. The GDL 52 combines the two networks to provide weather, traffic and audio to a portable tablet or other mobile device, […]

The new owners of Lancair International, father and son team Mark and Conrad Huffstutler, brought their first offering to Oshkosh to put on display at EAA’s AirVenture. The four-seat composite Mako is an experimental alternative to the Cirrus SR22 or Cessna TTx. While the main gear is fixed, the Mako incorporates an optional retractable nose-gear […]

Garmin has introduced a low-cost ADS-B Out unit designed to help light airplane owners comply with the mandate that is coming up in January of 2020. The GDL 82 incorporates with most existing Mode C transponders, mounting in between the transponder unit and the antenna for a quick and cost effective installation. The GDL 82 […]

Superior Air Parts is celebrating its 50th anniversary as an aviation parts supplier this year. One of the company’s main missions is to make flying more affordable, said Superior Air Parts’ CEO, Keith Chatten, and it has done that through forums and seminars at air shows such as EAA AirVenture, among other things. Chatten said […]