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The bankruptcy filing of flight training company Mazzei Flying Service at Fresno’s Yosemite International Airport at the end of March halted nearly all of the Part 141 school’s flight training activities. The shutdown affected about 60 fledgling pilots particularly hard — most of them Taiwanese students— because they’d paid for the entirety of their professional […]

The business aviation industry believes 17 years is too long between updates about practical issues such as crew duty days, rest periods and other fatigue-related topics. The National Business Aviation Association, in cooperation with the John D. Odegaard School of Aerospace at the University of North Dakota, has commissioned a new survey to better understand […]

A Sunday United Airlines flight from Chicago to Louisville has become a new source of controversy for the company that was barely done with PR fallout from March’s viral leggings incident. In multiple videos shared on social media, security officials can be seen forcibly removing and dragging a man from the United airplane while his […]

The Blue Angels are set to put on their one-of-a-kind show at Sun ‘n Fun 2017 around 4 PM on Saturday and again on Sunday, but even their practice performance cranked up the excitement for aviation enthusiasts. And like most visitors to Central Florida, the U.S. Navy’s legendary flight demonstration squadron couldn’t pass up the […]

SocialFlight, an aviation app that informs pilots of events and businesses, and connects like-minded aviators, has added more features to encourage aviation activity. With its sixth major upgrade, the company has introduced what it calls FLY2WIN challenges and rewards, giving pilots the opportunity to win products and badges of honor the more they fly. More […]

Embraer Executive Jets delivered the first Phenom 100EV to an undisclosed U.S. customer. Announced last year at EAA AirVenture, the new model is an upgraded Phenom 100 with Prodigy Touch avionics based in the Garmin G3000 system and more powerful Pratt & Whitney Canada PW617F1-E engines. The 100EV’s new engines, boasting 1,730 pounds of thrust […]

With Sun ‘n Fun taking place concurrently with the AERO Friedrichshafen show in Germany, Italian aircraft manufacturer Tecnam announced a range of upgrades to some of the airplanes in its wide range of models. The single-engine P2002 Sierra has undergone major improvements, starting with the powerplant. The Rotax 912 engine has been replaced with the […]

TKM Avionics announced another milestone at this week’s Sun n Fun with a new slide-in replacement for King KX155/165 navcoms. Vic Casebolt, TKM’s operations manager, said the new unit will replace every variation of the original King radio and can operate on either a 14- or 28-volt system and comes standard with VOR, glideslope and […]

One hurdle for many pilots, especially those flying IFR, is interpreting the hundreds of Metars, TAFs, Sigmets, Airmets, prog charts and other weather data sources available online today. All too often, pilots choose to simply check destination weather, winds aloft and perhaps a few Metars along the route. Downloading more data is not a solution, […]

Purdue Aviation is set to receive the first jet-A-burning diesel Cessna Turbo Skyhawk JT-A, which it plans to take delivery of as soon as the airplane receives its FAA certification, expected later this year. The Skyhawk JT-A is powered by a four-cylinder Continental CD-155 compression ignition engine mated to a three-blade MT Propeller composite prop. […]