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Sonex Testing Market for Jet-powered Sportplane
July 28, 2009
Sonex Aircraft brought what might be the only new jet-powered aircraft to EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis.–a research-and-development project intended to evaluate market reception for a small jet airplane kit. The aerobatic “Subsonex” will be powered by a 200-pound-thrust turbine engine, according to Sonex’s Mark Schaible, and should offer one hour of...
moreTSA Names Acting GM for General Aviation
July 16, 2009
Brian Delauter, most recently the federal security director at Savannah (Ga.) International Airport, has been selected to serve as the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) acting general manager for the General Aviation Branch. According to the TSA, he has an extensive general aviation background and currently holds multiple FAA licenses,...
moreIn the works:Dornier Seaplane-Seastar
July 01, 2009
Dornier Seaplane exhibited its all-composite Seastar amphibian at the Canadian Business Aviation Association show in Montreal in late May, showing off fresh paint and an upgraded interior. The Seastar program “is gaining momentum,” according to Joe Walker, CEO of the Punta Gorda, Fla.-based company, which has taken orders for 25 of the twin-turboprop...
moreViking Air soars with large order from ME firm
June 17, 2009
Canada’s Viking Air has sold 10 of its Twin Otter Series 400 turboprops to Global Aerospace Logistics of Abu Dhabi. The agreement, which represents the largest order to date, calls for delivery of six landplane-configured DHC-6 Series 400s and four Guardian Twin Otter floatplanes, slated for use throughout the United Arab Emirates in both government and...
morePiccard team set to unveil Solar Impulse this month
June 17, 2009
The HB-SIA solar-powered aircraft, the first prototype of the Solar Impulse project, is to be unveiled next week on June 26 at Dübendorf air base, near Zurich, Switzerland. Those who attend will discover some design changes since the last images were released, company CEO André Borschberg told AIN, adding that a first flight is planned for later this...
moreAOPA, EAA Teaming To Protect General Aviation
June 11, 2009
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) and Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) said last week that they will be collaborating on issues and programs that protect, support and foster general aviation. This effort stems from a meeting last Wednesday between EAA chairman and president Tom Poberezny and AOPA president and CEO Craig Fuller, as...
morePilot Pax Lands King Air after Pilot Dies
May 01, 2009
The FAA is hailing three South Florida air traffic controllers for assisting Doug White, a fixed-wing single-engine-rated private pilot and passenger, in safely landing King Air B200 N559DW on April 12 after pilot Joe Cabuk Jr. became incapacitated minutes after takeoff from Marco Island (Fla.) Executive Airport. After Cabuk became unconscious, a Miami...
moreAOPA Launches GA Campaign
May 01, 2009
Long-time AOPA member, pilot and actor Harrison Ford has teamed with AOPA to promote general aviation. Dubbed “General Aviation Serves America,” the campaign will showcase Ford and “other real people” to help explain what “general aviation means to their communities and to their businesses.” AOPA has committed an initial $1.5 million to the campaign, which...
moreP&WC engine for Columbus shares GTF core
May 01, 2009
The in-development geared turbofan (GTF) has been attracting most of the headlines at engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney lately, and it does indeed promise to make a large leap in powerplant efficiency and environmental friendliness when it enters airline service in 2013. The GTF achieves its gains in large part from the integral gearbox that allows...
morePiper CEO: World Is Out To Ground General Aviation
April 23, 2009
While he believes the recession will end soon, Piper Aircraft president and CEO James Bass said the effect of the U.S. government’s “assault” on general aviation will linger much longer. His remarks, made Tuesday at the Sun ’n’ Fun Fly-In in Lakeland, Fla., were a biting criticism of government officials and media outlets that are spreading the off-base...
moreLongstanding Light Jet Speed Record Falls
April 16, 2009
Twenty-six-year-old New Jersey businessman Jared Isaacman, along with copilot Doug Demko, yesterday shattered the world record for an eastbound global circumnavigation in a light business jet, with a time of 61 hours, 51 minutes and 15 seconds, lopping 21 hours off the previous record set in 1991 by a UK pilot in a Cessna Citation II. Last year, Isaacman...
moreSpirits high at WAI’s annual networking event
April 01, 2009
Although the dismal economy cast a pall over this year’s Women in Aviation conference–the association’s 20th–there were plenty of networking opportunities available to attendees. As it has in the past, the conference brought its members–who hail from all sectors of aviation (commercial, corporate, private and military)–together to share their passion for...
moreCAP: ‘Don’t trash the beacon’
April 01, 2009
In an effort to cut down on the more than 2,000 false distress signals it receives each year from emergency locator transmitters (ELT) and emergency position indicating radio beacons, the Civil Air Patrol has launched its “Don’t Trash the Beacon” public awareness campaign. “The false-alarm rate is between 90- and 95-percent now,” said John Demarais, CAP’s...
moreIn the Works: Antilles Seaplanes
March 01, 2009
Decades after the last Grumman Goose rolled off the famed manufacturer’s assembly line, the G-21 Goose is nearly ready to come back to life. A company called Antilles Seaplanes, headquartered in Gibsonville, N.C., is resurrecting the Goose and will sell the amphibian as newly manufactured airframes powered by 680-shp (flat-rated) Pratt & Whitney Canada...
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