Jack Pelton, recently retired president and CEO at Cessna, has won the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association’s (LAMA) President’s Award. More than 600 industry experts were polled, with Pelton receiving the most votes, according to LAMA officials. Pelton helped bring the Skycatcher — Cessna’s LSA — to market, which has already gathered 1,000 orders, the largest […]
#OSH11: Virginia couple win Phillips 66 Leadership Award
He’s flown 1,025 kids. She’s kept youth scholarships funded and created a private pilot grant program for budding aviators. Together, they’ve run Young Eagles chapters in two states, coordinated hundreds of events, endured countless forms and paperwork, and relentlessly recruited ground volunteers, pilots and donors. Yet, Ginny and Richard Largent are far from finished in […]
#OSH11: Cessna to host ‘Flying Wild Alaska’ cast
Cessna is bringing four personalities from Discovery Channel’s “Flying Wild Alaska” to AirVenture. Ariel Tweto, Luke Hickerson, John Ponts and Doug Stewart will be at Cessna’s display from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 to 5 p.m. on Friday, July 29, and Saturday, July 30. They will sign autographs and talk about the show, […]
#OSH11: Centurion touts ‘motor of the future’
Centurion Aircraft Engines AG & Co. KG is showing off its diesel aircraft engines this week at AirVenture. Officials with the German company report the amount of cumulative flight time logged by the fleet has risen by half a million hours, to reach 2.7 million hours. “Around 1.36 million of the flight hours account for […]
SEF takes over LSA Expo
Florida’s Sebring Regional Airport (SEF) has taken the reins of the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo from Bob Wood, who has been the driving force behind the LSA Expo for the past seven years. Sebring’s board of directors recently gave staff permission to draft a document to transfer the Expo to the airport. The deal should […]
#OSH11: Jeppesen’s Mobile TC app hits 125,000 downloads
There have been more than 125,000 downloads of Jeppesen’s Mobile TC app, company officials said today at Oshkosh. The Mobile TC app for iPad is just one of the platforms for Jeppesen’s Express JeppView digital charting services. Others include multi-function display (MFD) avionics systems such as Garmin, Avidyne and EuroAvionics and portable devices from Garmin […]
#OSH11: Swift partners with Electroair
Swift Enterprises and Electroair have signed a testing agreement, in which Swift’s Cessna 150 will be fitted with an Electroair Direct Fire Ignition System as the company continues development on its alternative for 100LL. For the last five years, Swift has been developing 100SF, a high-octane unleaded replacement for 100LL that meets Grade UL102 of […]
#OSH11: Oregon Aero ships 1,500th seat for RV-10
Oregon Aero has reached a milestone that underscores its cooperative relationship with Van’s Aircraft: The company recently shipped out the 1,500th seat for builders of the RV-10 kit plane. In fact, due to the popularity of the RV-10, Oregon Aero officials estimate they will have shipped nearly 2,000 seats by the end of Oshkosh. Oregon […]
#OSH11: A.E.R.O. releases catalog
To celebrate its 35th year in business. A.E.R.O. has released its first printed catalog. The 190-page, full-color catalog features not only all the parts carried by the company — “we’ve got everything firewall forward,” says A.E.R.O’s Roy Scott — it also includes application charts, data charts, and other information critical to mechanics and homebuilders. “We’ve […]