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Pilatus Business Aircraft broke ground on its new North and South American headquarters last week in Jefferson County, Colorado. Officials from Pilatus, Tectonic Management Group, Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport and Jefferson County gathered to celebrate the company’s new center for aircraft completions and support. Since 1996, Pilatus has completed more than 1,000 PC-12 aircraft at […]

The Airbus E-Fan 1.2, a new version of the aerospace giant’s vision for the future of general aviation flight, will make its U.S. debut next week at EAA AirVenture, highlighting a brand-new hybrid-electric propulsion system pioneered for the project with partner Siemens. This latest version of E-Fan features a gasoline engine that greatly extends the […]

Visitors to Oshkosh this year will have the chance to relive history 75 years after the defining moment that propelled the United States into the second World War. Redbird, A2A Flight Simulations and Flying magazine will commemorate the attack on Pearl Harbor with a unique simulator that puts attendees in the cockpit of a P-40 […]

Ross McCurdy is at it again. The Rhode Island-based high school teacher who last year completed the first coast-to-coast trip in a biofuel-powered small aircraft has completed a record-setting fuel-efficiency flight. In a Cessna 182 with an SMA diesel engine, McCurdy and a fellow pilot rounded off an 848-mile course on just 56 gallons of […]

The Pilot Proficiency Center (PPC) will be back at Oshkosh, but even bigger and better than last year. Because pilots learn best through scenario-based training, the PPC offers any AirVenture pilot, or pilot wannabe, an opportunity to experience the dynamic world of flight through one of 14 Redbird simulators stationed in a new 8,000-square-foot facility. […]

The Perlan 2 atmospheric glider departed the U.S. this week, on a container ship no less, headed to El Calafate, Argentina, following six months of intensive flight testing in Minden, Nevada. Once it arrives in the Andes region, the aircraft will be reassembled to begin its high-altitude climate research mission. Lacking an engine that could […]

A team made up of Epic Aircraft owners and staff this month embarked on an aerial journey that truly lives up to the manufacturer’s name. On July 7, six Epic airplanes took off from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, beginning the Epic Odyssey World Tour, a 21-day round-the-world trip that will take the team 15,000 nm through 20 […]

For the first time in 60 years, the B-29 Superfortress named Doc, which has been in restoration in Wichita, Kansas, for many years, took flight once again. There were emotional tears in the crowds of Doc’s Friends volunteers and supporters who watched the massive, shiny all-aluminum World War II bomber lift off from McConnell Air […]

The next avionics breakthrough from Garmin has arrived. It looks like a typical SD card that you might use to upload navigation data to your GPS receiver, but it’s oh so much more than that. The Flight Stream 510 MultiMediaCard (MMC) provides wireless connectivity between the Garmin Pilot app and GTN 650/750 touchscreen navigators with […]

Piper Aircraft delivered the first M600 single-engine turboprop yesterday, handing over the keys to the airplane to its new owners a day after Flying had a chance to put the model through its paces, which was closely followed by the FAA’s final validation flight before signing off on the production certificate. The first M600, painted […]