Aviation News

The ** Aircraft Electronics Assocation**‘s 55th annual convention opened its doors yesterday to avionics dealers and manufacturers who said they are finally seeing concrete signs of a turnaround after a rough few years punctuated by the global economic crisis. There were fewer new product introductions at this year’s show compared with past years, but the […]

Falcon’s eagerly anticipated super-midsize business jet, the 2000S, has completed a year of flight testing and is on track for certification toward the end of this year. The jet, which is priced at right around $25 million, promises the cabin of large bizjet with the price and short-field performance of a super-midsize model. That Dassault […]

The people behind one of the great names in aviation, Bendix/King, have been busy of late coming up with a plan to re-create the brand. Once the dominant force in GA avionics with a broad and brilliant lineup of panel-mount avionics for every segment of the market, the company lost its lead in the 1990s […]

Airshow performer and air race pilot Howard Pardue died on Wednesday when his Grumman F8F Bearcat crashed shortly after takeoff from his home field of Stephens County Airport in Breckenridge, Texas, located about 100 miles west of Dallas. The Bearcat, one of only 15 or so airworthy F8Fs in the world, had just taken off […]

As Terrafugia looks to make headlines with the debut of its Transition roadable aircraft at the upcoming New York International Auto Show, a Dutch company with an intriguing flying car is making news of its own a continent away. Startup manufacturer PAL-V Europe flew its roadable gyrocopter for the first time last week, and in […]

Italian manufacturer Tecnam announced the addition of the new Rotax 912 iS fuel-injected engine across its light sport and ultralight product line. Due to enter mass production next month, the 100 hp 912 iS will fly in the Tecnam P92, P2002 and P2008 models. Selection of the newest Rotax engine by Tecnam continues a flurry […]

Diamond Aircraft has made the first flight of its new all-composite twin-engine model, the DA52. First flight, made by Diamond Chairman Christian Dries and Diamond test pilot Ingmar Mayerbuch, went off without a hitch. In fact, after the flight Dries said that the DA52 was “the best prototype aircraft I have ever made a maiden […]

Start up LSA manufacturer Terrafugia reached an important milestone the other week with the first flight of the production prototype version of its roadable airplane, called the Transition. The short sortie — it lasted but eight minutes and went only as high as 1,400 feet agl within the vicinity of the Plattsburg, New York, airport […]

Employees at one of GA’s largest airplane manufacturers recently put their collective might together for a good cause, raising $25,000 in a fundraising effort benefiting the Veterans Airlift Command, a non-profit that transports injured veterans and their families with the help of volunteer pilots and aircraft owners. Cessna made the donation on behalf of its […]

An 80-year-old woman with no pilot’s license or formal training was forced to take the controls and land a Cessna 414 on Monday evening after her 81-year-old pilot husband experienced a medical emergency and lost consciousness in the air. The woman declared an emergency around 5:30 p.m. local time while flying the twin-engine Cessna just […]