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Blackhawk Modifications is far and away Pratt & Whitney Canada’s best non-OEM customer, having taken delivery of 1,000 PT6A engines over a 16-year collaboration. Senior executives from Blackhawk and Pratt & Whitney Canada commemorated the milestone engine at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. P&WC executives including company president John Saabas congratulated Blackhawk president and CEO Jim Allmon […]

There is hope for third-class medical reform and it may become a reality soon. A bipartisan amendment to the Senate highway bill was filed this week by Senators Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) and John Boozman (R-Arkansas), adding language to support third-class medical reform. The language introduced in the highway bill mirrors suggested medical rules included […]

South African kit airplane maker The Airplane Factory (TAF) announced a program to help customers get into Sling 4 ownership without having to assemble the kit in its entirety. TAF has partnered with experimental aircraft builder Synergy Air, based in Eugene, Oregon, to assist customers with building the four-seat experimental airplane. The first airplane in […]

Quest Aircraft is wasting no time planning for the future after being acquired earlier this year by Japan’s Setouchi Holdings. The manufacturer is nearly doubling the size of its Kodiak production facility in Sandpoint, Idaho, where it has been building the rugged utility single-engine turboprops for nearly a decade. Construction of the new factory is […]

SocialFlight, which, just like it sounds, is a website/application for finding social opportunities in the flying world, has added a new spin to its services that lets pilots find cool new places to fly into. These new SocialFlight destinations, called Hotspots, include both famous and little known sites to flight plan to, along with member […]

Flight Design gave an update on its anticipated C4 certified airplane at EAA AirVenture this week. The proof of concept prototype of the four-seat high-wing model made its first flight this spring, but the first of three conforming prototypes has not yet been completed. Flight Design said its EASA certification target has been pushed to […]

Lancair continues to make improvements to its single-engine Evolution turboprop, modifying the engine inlet and adding a BRS parachute. The modifications will be included as standard equipment in the experimental airplane kit starting with Serial Number 70, the build of which will begin at the Lancair factory in the end of August, Lancair’s sales and […]

BRP announced at EAA AirVenture its intent to produce a more powerful version of its immensely popular Rotax 912/914 series of engines. The turbocharged four-cylinder Rotax 915 iS is designed to produce up to 135 horsepower continuously as high as 15,000 feet and continue to climb to a service ceiling of 23,000 feet. The 915 […]

A Piper Malibu with five aboard crashed next to the runway at Wittman Regional Airport at around 8 o’clock local time this morning, sending up a plume of black smoke and closing the airspace over Oshkosh for about three hours. Four of those on board were able to get out of the airplane on their […]

Aspen Avionics and L-3 Avionics Systems have teamed up to connect ADS-B capabilities with primary flight and multifunction displays. L3’s new Lynx NGT-9000 multifunction transponder with LCD touch screen will integrate with Aspen’s Evolution line of PFDs and MFDs. As a Mode S extended squitter transponder with ADS-B In and Out capabilities and an integrated […]