by Isabel Goyer

Cessna’s Citation Special Olympics Airlift is set to take off this weekend, the latest in a long series of such airlifts started by Cessna back in 1987. This year the big change is that many of the athletes will be flying in airplanes built by Beechcraft, Cessna’s new sister company under the Textron Aviation banner. […]

The FAA’s network of ADS-B transmitters is growing fast. In the past 18 months the number has mushroomed, and by the end of the year there should be at least 800 sites up and working. ADS-B, which the FAA officially mandated in 2010 for full adoption by 2020, is the NextGen surveillance technology, though sadly […]

Arizona’s Chandler Municipal Airport was hit by a freak storm on Tuesday night that damaged or destroyed an estimated 30 airplanes. Local meteorologists blamed the damage on microbursts they estimated at peak speeds of around 60 mph, though the extent of the damage to some of the airplanes would suggest even stronger winds were to […]

SocialFlight, which, just like it sounds, is a website/application for finding social opportunities in the flying world, has added a new spin to its services that lets pilots find cool new places to fly into. These new SocialFlight destinations, called Hotspots, include both famous and little known sites to flight plan to, along with member […]

For owners of legacy airplanes with older electromechanical attitude indicators, the need to repair or replace one of these units can be an expensive and uncertain proposition, one that sometimes sadly only resets the clock for a while before more repairs are needed. On Monday at AirVenture in Oshkosh, BendixKing announced it was closing in […]

On Sunday evening Redbird launched a brand new kind of aviation product called Sidekick. This notebook-computer-sized product rides along in a small airplane and collects, records and transmits all kinds of flight data completely wirelessly, save a portable antenna that gets suction cupped to a side window. Just put Sidekick into the back pocket of […]

Aspen Avionics is now shipping its new ATX100 ADS-B transceivers. The units seem a great solution to owners who have the Aspen Evolution primary flight display with the Garmin GNS 430W or 530W in the panel too. The ATX100 can use the position feed from a WAAS capable Garmin navigator, eliminating the need for owners […]

On Sunday unknown cyber attackers breached the flight planning computers of Polish carrier LOT at Warsaw’s Chopin International Airport, prompting LOT to cancel 10 flights. At this time, it seems as though the attack targeted the ground-based computers of LOT, including dispatch computers, rendering them temporarily unusable. LOT reports that its computers are once again […]

For the past five years the members of the Victoria Flying Club in Victoria, B.C., Canada, have been using a Redbird FMX full motion flight simulator for their landplane training needs. The club recently added an option that chief pilot Graham Palmer says is the first of its kind in the world: a full motion […]

When the economic downturn of 2007 struck, there were several bizjet segments that took a hit. Surprisingly, the largest cabin jets seemed not only immune to the crisis but to thrive on the turmoil. The sales of most light jets got knocked for a loop, but it was the midsize segment that spun out of […]