Aviation News

Airplane owners can now install Garmin’s G5 electronic flight instrument as a replacement directional gyro (DG) or horizontal situation indicator (HSI) in type-certified models, expanding an approval received last year to add the formerly experimental-only display to the panel as an artificial horizon EFIS. When paired with certain Garmin navcom radios and GPS navigators, the […]

The Flight Safety Foundation says 54 percent of all accidents could potentially be avoided if the flying pilot had executed a timely go-around, simply bringing up the power and returning for another attempt at landing, often because the first approach was in some way unstable. The FSF recently learned that 83 percent of runway excursions […]

This week Remos AG, the German light airplane manufacturer, delivered its first GXiS. The two-seat airplane, which is designed to ease the pilot’s workload, went to UTC Flugschule at the Schoenberg Airport (EDPK) in southeastern Germany, a flight school and Remos dealer that has been in operation for more than 40 years. “The GXiS, with […]

The race to bring flying cars into our lives has heated up in recent months, as Airbus wowed the aviation wolrd with its Pop.Up and Dutch developer PAL-V aims to begin delivery of its Liberty by the end of 2018. Ever the Shangri-La for technological trail blazing, Dubai is even promising a fleet of single-passenger […]

Somehow, in and amongst his duties as a Boeing 777 captain for a major U.S. airline, an aviation analyst on CNN and a regular columnist for Flying magazine, Les Abend has found the time to write a crime thriller. His debut novel, Paper Wings, takes readers on a heart-pounding ride in the cockpit of a […]

This week, Mooney Aircraft received the highly anticipated sign-off from the FAA for its new Ultra versions of the Ovation and Acclaim, the M20U and M20V – the fastest piston single-engine airplane on the market. The new airplanes come with a laundry list of improvements. The most significant modification is the addition of a door […]

In a significant move that points to sky-high confidence in the market for piston aero engines, Continental Motors said it will build a state-of-the-art factory in Mobile, Alabama, as part of a three-year global investment plan that is intended to take the storied company’s “manufacturing, customer service and engineering infrastructure to the next level.” Continental […]

Sun ‘n Fun International Fly-In and Expo kicks off next week, April 4–9, at the Lakeland Linder Airport in Lakeland, Florida. The 43-year-old airshow boasts activities for all ages, featuring hands-on workshops, forums, exhibits, camping and daily airshows. Top-tier performances include the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, Breitling Jet Team, Patrouille de France, Matt Chapman, Mike […]

Gulfstream announced that one of its latest luxury bizjet offerings, the G500, is making good progress toward certification. The Savannah, Georgia-based company said the certification effort for the twinjet is on schedule, with the coveted FAA signoff and first deliveries expected later this year. For the G500 certification effort Gulfstream has been using five test […]

Crash investigators are beginning to piece together reports from people on the ground and information gleaned from a flight data recorder recovered from a Cessna Citation I that slammed into an unoccupied home in an Atlanta suburb Friday night. The twinjet crashed about 15 miles north of its destination, Atlanta’s Fulton County Airport, at about […]