Diamond Aircraft Completes First Flight of Its Electric-Powered eDA40
Company expects aircraft to be the first electric model to receive FAA Part 23 certification.
Company expects aircraft to be the first electric model to receive FAA Part 23 certification.
The first DA50 was delivered at EAA AirVenture on Tuesday.
Under the agency’s new proposed guidelines officially published Monday, most of the current regulatory limitations on light sport aircraft would be removed.
Soon, helicopters and powered-lift aircraft may be certificated as light sport aircraft, and pilots, instructors, and repairmen may gain new privileges.
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Agency is considering allowing heavier and faster aircraft into popular classification.
Deploying a DER repair can be the ultimate upcycling in aviation maintenance, sometimes becoming the difference between saving or scrapping a part.
If the NPRM transitions to an official rule, several of the aircraft that currently make up the training fleet could be legally flown with a sport pilot certificate.
The legislation struck language that would allow simulator time to count toward the 1,500-hour training requirement for aspiring pilots.
The FAA has released a preview to the ASTM committee, F37, on LSA, publicly available in the Federal Register ahead of the planned NPRM publication of the MOSAIC.