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Morning fog gradually gave way to sunny skies and pleasant temperatures near 80 degrees as the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo opened its doors to the LSA community yesterday at the Sebring Regional Airport in central Florida. It was a marked difference from last year’s show, when wind and rain put a damper on the five-day […]

Torrance, California-based Robinson Helicopter recently reached a significant milestone, rolling out its 12,000th helicopter. With international sales being a major percentage of Robinson’s business, it should come as no surprise that the commemorative helicopter, an R66, will be delivered overseas to Hover Dynamics, a Robinson dealer in South Africa. The R66 will eventually enter into […]

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. has once again announced a delay in delivering Japan’s first new commercial passenger plane in over half a century, this time by about two years. The Japanese manufacturer says it’s pushing back delivery of the first Mitsubishi Regional Jet from mid-2018 to mid-2020 “due to revisions of certain systems and electrical configurations […]

Gulfstream Aerospace and the Swiss Fédération Aéronautique Internationale confirmed last week the Savannah, Georgia, aircraft builder’s G280 super-midsize business jet set another FAI-sanctioned world speed record, this one between McClellan-Palomar Airport (CRQ) in Carlsbad, California, and Kona International Airport (HKO) in Kalaoa on the far west edge of the big island of Hawaii. The G280 […]

More than two dozen aircraft models across a wide range of aircraft builders, including Beechcraft, Grumman, Maule and Mooney, are now eligible to install Dynon flight displays, thanks to the supplemental type certificate created by the Experimental Aircraft Association in partnership with Dynon and the FAA. The number of Cessna and Piper aircraft eligible for […]

Whenever Donald Trump visits Mar-a-Lago, his 126-room, 110,000-square-foot estate in Palm Beach, Florida, a presidential TFR will ring the property for a radius of 30 nautical miles to an altitude of 17,999 feet, a restriction that will impact pilots, corporate aircraft operators and countless aviation businesses in South Florida. Details of the government’s TFR plan […]

The schedule for the 2017 Red Bull Air Race season has been released, and this year’s tour stops feature a brand-new venue in Russia as well as an old U.S. favorite. The eight-race season kicks off February 10 in Abu Dhabi, which has hosted the season opener for the past nine seasons. Next, on April […]

Japanese travelers will soon have another Star Wars-themed airliner to fly on as Japan’s largest airline, All Nippon Airlines (ANA), is about to launch a Boeing 777-200 painted to represent C-3PO – the humanoid robot character that made its debut in the very first Star Wars movie released in the late 1970s. The C-3PO airplane […]

Action cameras, such as Garmin’s Virb Ultra 30, are all the rage today, when flight plans often include recording some of the in-flight action. Garmin hopes a new bundle of accessories specially designed for aviators will make shooting stunning HD footage easier than with earlier-generation cameras. The aviation package includes a stereo headset audio cable […]

The National Transportation Safety Board last week published its preliminary report — essentially a list of the facts gathered to this point — about the December 29, 2016, crash into Lake Erie of a Cessna Citation CJ4. The Part 91-operated jet disappeared into the dark waters of the lake about a minute after departing Cleveland’s […]