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Simplifying the aircraft building and buying process, Textron Aviation has launched a virtual design program that allows prospective owners of the Cessna TTx to create and order their aircraft online. The TTx configurator gives buyers a snapshot of the aircraft they’re purchasing with custom selections such as exterior striping schemes, colors, interior design, avionics and […]

Icon Aircraft has launched a “thorough review” of an A5 incident after one of the light sport amphibians suffered hull damage and partially sank during an “extremely hard” landing near Miami on April 1. The incident occurred during a flight of two A5s in Miami on Saturday, Icon confirmed to Flying. Both the pilot and […]

U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said yesterday there’s more work to be done to improve his 2012 Pilot’s Bill of Rights. The senior senator from Oklahoma, a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, the Senate General Aviation Caucus and a certified flight instructor, on Wednesday introduced S.755, the Fairness for Pilots Act, created […]

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 […]