Aviation News

With the FAA’s ADS-B deadline looming 41 months from now, some aircraft operators are hoping the agency deadline will slip, offering everyone more breathing time to schedule the work. Contrary to the laws of supply and demand, many of those same operators are also hoping that equipment and installation costs will decline. A low-cost, easy-to-install […]

When Alan Klapmeier and his brother Dale certified the Cirrus SR-20 in 1998, it wasn’t long before customers began asking, “What’s next?” The answer in 2000 was the SR-22. Today, One Aviation CEO Alan Klapmeier announced the next evolutionary product in the Eclipse aircraft line, code named Project Canada, with speed, range and climb performance […]

Rans Aircraft has launched the latest of a growing number of Cub-like airplanes emerging on the market. Powered by a 180 hp Titan engine, the two-seat S-21 Outbound is expected to be a short-field capable two-seat experimental with impressive cruise speed. “This is exciting for us, building a big two-seater with a lot of power […]

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 […]