Aircraft

Dassault Aviation successfully completed the first flight of its new flagship model, the ultra-long-range Falcon 8X business jet, which the company recently rolled out of its Mérignac, France-based factory near Bordeaux. The 1 hour 45 minute flight took the trijet as high as FL 400 and to speeds as great as Mach 0.80. Test pilots […]

Flying reader David Lewis recently captured this incredible footage of a Super Cub on floats taking off from Louisiana’s Pineville Airport with a little help from some friends in their pickup truck. If you’ve never witnessed a dry floatplane takeoff like this, it’s a must-see. Get exclusive online content like this delivered straight to your […]

Quest Aircraft delivered 30 Kodiak turboprop singles last year, posting its strongest year since certifying the utility airplane in 2007. Last year also saw the Sandpoint, Idaho, start-up manufacturer achieve several milestones, including the certification of a new interior, new avionics, FAA approval for a TKS Tank installation in the Kodiak’s cargo pod, and an […]

Bizjet rivals Gulfstream and Embraer are squaring off for aviation’s most coveted prize: the Collier Trophy, which recognizes the greatest annual achievement in aerospace in America. The 2014 award pits the Gulfstream G650 against the Embraer Legacy 500, two of the latest fly-by-wire jets to enter the market. The G650 was a Collier Trophy finalist […]

Cessna rolled out the first production Citation Latitude at its Wichita, Kansas, factory last Thursday, bringing the midsize twinjet an important step closer to its market introduction three years after launching the program. The Latitude certification program, which already includes four prototype aircraft, has accumulated 500 flights and 1,200 hours to date. Cessna expects to […]

With the Embraer Legacy 500 skirting the line between traditional midsize jets and super-midsize models, our look at the Legacy 500’s competitors focuses on those larger airplanes, with a peek at one traditional midsize model too. Indeed, when you look at the cabin size of the 500, its safety technologies, its cabin amenities and its […]

What’s the coolest airplane in the world, at least that a civilian could buy? There are some impressive contenders for that unofficial title, including a couple I’ve had the chance to fly in the past year, such as the Gulfstream G650 and the Cessna Citation X+. We recently got the chance to fly yet another […]

A few weeks ago I flew the Cessna 180 to a nearby grass strip to give a sport pilot practical in a man’s ­Pietenpol Air Camper. Coincidentally, somebody else had just sent me an old Antique Airplane Association magazine. The “Our Lady Antiquer” section in this January-February 1968 issue featured “brand new AAA Member 9010, […]

From the moment Sporty’s revealed details of a barebones refurbished Cessna 172 trainer at Sporty’s Academy in Batavia, Ohio, renting for $99 an hour including fuel, owners of other flight schools around the country took notice. In calls and emails they all had the same questions: Do you plan to sell similar refurbed airplanes and, […]

Piper Aircraft has launched a new airplane in its single-engine M-class series called the M500. An upgraded Meridian turboprop model, the M500 brings Garmin G1000 avionics along with other new technologies to the six-seat airplane, which was first introduced in the early 1980s. In addition to the well-known benefits of the G1000 system, such as […]