Aviation News

Creighton King, the owner of Cassutt Aircraft, survived a traumatic incident on his way to AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. King had completed the AirVenture Cup race, a cross-country race of about 450 nm from Mitchell, South Dakota, to Wausau, Wisconsin, via Mankato, Minnesota, in his single-seat Cassutt and was on his way from Wausau to […]

Avidyne has received FAA certification of its long-awaited touchscreen IFD540 GPS navcom, allowing installations to begin in hundreds of aircraft types under an approved model list STC. The IFD540 flight management system is the flagship product of Avidyne’s previously announced family of panel-mounted avionics, which also includes the AMX240 audio panel and the AXP340 mode […]

S-Tec introduced a version of its HeliSAS helicopter stability augmentation system and autopilot for the Robinson R44 series, bringing big-helicopter capability to the piston rotorcraft market for the first time. The system’s two-axis autopilot provides heading and nav hold as well as vertical speed and altitude hold modes. HeliSAS provides attitude stabilization and force feel […]

L-3 Aviation Products is offering early details of a new family of ADS-B offerings that promise to provide a low-cost compliance path for the FAA’s upcoming equipment mandate, as well as a long list of optional additional features to fit a variety of wants and budgets. Lynx is described by L-3 as a single-box solution […]

Flying Magazine was among the first to try out the new Safe Flight SCx angle-of-attack indicator designed for the kit-built and experimental markets, putting the unit to the test in the company’s Cessna 172 right before Oshkosh. After our demo the only thing we disliked like about the system is that it’s not available for […]

On Monday at AirVenture 2014 BendixKing announced a new flat-panel retrofit avionics solution, AeroVue, for owners of turbine aircraft that are still of great value but that have outdated avionics. The system, BendixKing president Kevin Gould told Flying, would cost around $100,000 less than the competition, which presumably is the Garmin G1000 retrofit system. AeroVue […]

Look out Icon A5. A new light sport amphibian from a Minnesota startup company is transforming the idea of what an airplane can be with some impressive value-added features, like a foldout flat floor that turns the LSA into a bass boat and hardware allowing a hammock to be slung across the tail. The two-seat […]

A man and his daughter were killed when they were struck by a 1972 Piper Cherokee making an emergency landing on Caspersen Beach in Englewood, Florida. Witnesses say the Cherokee landed just feet from the water’s edge, with the wing potentially extending over the water, as the 36-year-old father and his 9-year-old daughter were walking […]

Two years after Cessna announced its intent to develop a diesel-powered Skylane 182, Textron Aviation announced today at the opening day of AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, a similar modification program to the most produced airplane in the world — the Cessna 172 Skyhawk. Besides being powered by jet-A fuel, which is generally more plentiful and […]

If you, like many pilots around the country, own a Cessna 172 Skyhawk with a run-out engine, you may soon have a new option when you reach TBO. Superior Air Parts has partnered with Christiansen Aviation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on a supplemental type certificate program for the new 180-horsepower Vantage Engine to be installed in […]