Bearhawk Aircraft recently made the first customer deliveries of the Quick Build kit for the Patrol. Four Quick Build kits were recently delivered to customers in Texas, Colorado, and Nevada. Designed by Bob Barrows, the Patrol is a two-place tandem, tailwheel STOL plane featuring a steel tube fuselage with all aluminum, flush riveted wings. Capable […]
New CEO at Remos
REMOS Aircraft GmbH has appointed Theo Paeffgen CEO. Paeffgen has been managing cross-border business for more than 15 years. For the past two years he has been working with Remos and has “developed a deep understanding of the company and knowledge of the market,” company official said. Founded in 1994, Remos is an aerospace manufacturing […]
Aviation ‘Who’s Who’ to share their adventures
A Who’s Who of aviation’s finest will be on hand June 24th to deliver a presentation to young people at the Caldwell Industrial Airport (EUL) in the first Idaho Mission: Aerospace event. Astronaut Barbara Morgan will headline a panel of space and aviation heroes, including A-10 West demonstration pilot Joe “Rifle” Shetterly, Idaho airshow pilot […]
Smyrna Air Center completes first Power 90 upgrade
Smyrna Air Center has completed its first Power 90 Upgrade conversion for AeroMetric, a company that does aerial mapping. GE Aviation’s M601E-11A engines are now powering AeroMetric’s King Air E-90 aircraft for its site in Anchorage, Alaska. The Power 90 Upgrade Program is a conversion program for owners of King Air 90 aircraft, in which […]
Lambert joins Aero Law Group
Paul Lambert has joined Aero Law Group, an aviation transactions law firm based in Bellevue, Wash. Lambert will be responsible for representing clients in sales, leasing, financing and the exchange of business and commercial aircraft as well as a variety of other aircraft support transactions. Lambert brings more than 23 years of experience as an […]
Avidyne Traffic Advisory System get FAA nod
Avidyne Corp. has received an Approved Model List Supplemental Type Certificate (AML STC) from the FAA for the installation of the of ADS-B-upgradeable TAS600 Series of Traffic Advisory Systems in more than 700 aircraft makes and models. “As with many avionics installations, dealers installing our TAS600 systems have referenced a single-aircraft STC, a process which […]
Dynon Avionics slates Open House
Dynon Avionics will host an Open House Saturday, July 9, concurrent with the annual Arlington Fly-In at Washington’s Arlington Municipal Airport (AWO). Buses will transport people from the fly-in site to the company’s factory in Woodinville, Wash., and back, leaving Arlington at 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., and 1 p.m.. The bus ride and tour will […]
Pilot flies to 50 airports to celebrate 50th birthday
Pilot James Oliphant celebrated his 50th birthday recently by flying to 50 airports in Kansas, as close to his May 19 birthday as possible, according to a story in the Wichita Eagle, which noted Oliphant also raised about $5,000 for the American Cancer Society. Oliphant, who works for an aircraft insurance agency, flew more than […]
Test confirm LightSquared network will interfere with GPS
Speaking today at an event in Washington, D.C., a spokesman for the Coalition to Save Our GPS said the test data “make clear that there is substantial interference to GPS is LightSquared turns on high-powered terrestrial facilities in the spectrum next door to GPS.” “The data confirm what the industry told the FCC before it […]