Aircraft

It has been a year-and-a-half since Mooney Aircraft’s first Ovation Ultra took flight from the company’s headquarters in Kerrville, Texas, and it hasn’t all been good news for the manufacturer since then. But Mooney is closing out 2017 on a strong note, as it recently celebrated the delivery of the first Ovation Ultra, before bringing […]

Four new Cessna Grand Caravan EX aircraft equipped with Wipline 8750A seaplane floats are expected to join the fleet in 2018 at Tropic Ocean Airways in Fort Lauderdale. Already the world’s largest operator of the Grand Caravan EX seaplane, this order will increase the size of the airline’s fleet to 15 aircraft. The order for […]

Following in the contrails of Cessna 172 and 182 models, Lancair International announced this week that the latest option to be offered for the newly-designed Mako four-seater is the BRS Aerospace whole aircraft parachute system. The single-engine piston-powered aircraft’s design features will “easily accommodate” the BRS parachute, BRS announced in a release. “We are very […]

“With the CJ3, Cessna got it right.” So I was told when I embarked on a life of flying this attractive airplane. Some 1,200 hours of CJ3 flying later, I can tell you that the airplane is more than attractive. It is amazing. If you put a gun to my head, I wouldn’t have been […]

There are times when breaking a promise isn’t as bad as it sounds at first, like when a company delivers a product or service that outperforms expectations. Gulfstream’s been on the road the past few weeks telling people the new G500/G600 series of airplanes will fly further and faster than the company than originally planned, […]

Dr. Leo and Dr. Fairfax Windecker, working closely with Dow Chemical Company, in 1969 brought the first all composite aircraft, the Eagle I, to FAA certification. According to the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, the four-place, low-wing monoplane received FAA certification, “only after building in a 20 percent over-designed airframe to make up for […]

Some of the 1,800 pilots and potential pilots who have put in their deposits to hold a position for an Icon A5 amphibious LSA may have had their dreams shattered this week as the company announced a dramatic price increase. The price went up by nearly 30 percent over the last quoted base price, from […]

For a few days last week, San Antonio International airport became home to more TBM aircraft than any other place on Earth when the TBM Owners and Pilots Association opened its 2017 convention. The TBMOPA said 117 aircraft of all the versions produced, including the TBM 700, TBM 850 and TBM 900-series, were counted, more […]

Building on the success of its appearance at the 2017 Paris Air Show, XTI Aircraft brought its revolutionary TriFan 600 prototype to Las Vegas for this year’s NBAA-BACE. According to the company, hundreds of visitors made their way to the XTI booth at the exhibition, resulting in new pre-orders for “the world’s first vertical takeoff […]

With Icon Aircraft ramping up deliveries of its amphibious A5 LSA, the Vacaville, California-based company it putting a focus on educating its owners and company pilots about low level flying. The Icon Low-Altitude Guidelines was developed because this type of flying is “the essence of sport flying and the very reason the A5 was created […]