Even the youngest flying aces can get their official pilot’s license at this year’s Noon Year’s Eve celebration at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, Calif., which will include live stage entertainment, bounce houses, face painting, crafts and access to full-sized aircraft. And, kids can get a photo personalized pilot ID card. “The kids […]
FlightBOX app launches
iApps has released FlightBOX, a free all-in-one flight bag app created for iPhone and iPad that features a customizable logbook for flight data entry. “We found a gap in this niche market; there was a need for an mobile application for pilots that would be useful from training and continue with them through their career,” […]
Soloy expands filter distribution
Soloy Aviation Solutions and Aerospace Filtration Systems, Inc. (now branded as Donaldson), recently agreed to expand Soloy’s distributor agreement to include Donaldson Inlet Barrier Filter (IBF) products. This product line distributor expansion allows Soloy to offer inlet barrier filters to operators of aircraft currently approved with Donaldson IBF products. “Now Soloy can offer its support […]
Lear’s last airplane focus of test pilot’s lecture
On Jan. 1 at The Museum of Flight in Seattle, test pilot Dennis Newton will lecture about the development of entrepreneur Bill Lear’s last project — the radical, Lear Fan 2100 Futura. Newton is the former Chief Test Pilot of Lear Fan Corp., and was at the controls of the Lear Fan prototype during its […]
Wilson to build new FBO at CHA
Wilson Air Centers will partner with the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport Authority to manage a new FBO in Chattanooga. The facilities will include a fueling center; a 9,000-square-foot general aviation terminal, including an office complex for pilot accommodations and business resources; and a 12,000-square-foot state-of-the-art hangar facility, with room for expansion as needed, company officials said. […]
Greenwich AeroGroup forms MRO Product Management team
Greenwich AeroGroup has formed a Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) Product Management team. The new team is made up of prominent aviation specialists with diverse backgrounds, whose cumulative aviation experience is more than 70 years. Team members include: Mark Fischer, Director MRO Avionics Products, who has more than 25 years of avionics experience, with companies […]
Diamond Aircraft survives tough times
To say it has been a challenging few years for Diamond Aircraft Industries Inc. would be an understatement, begins a feature story on the company in The Montreal Gazette. It continues: Since the market for piston-propelled aircraft went into a freefall, the small, London, Ont.,-based plane maker has witnessed its engine supplier go belly up, […]
Tips to maintain your aircraft’s value
Maintaining your aircraft is a process, not an event, says David Wyndham of Conklin & De Decker, in a blog post at GlobalAir.com. “A well-maintained aircraft will always have a higher residual value than one that is not,” he states, noting that, “Well-maintained in this case refers to an aircraft that is maintained beyond what […]
1,000 RV-7s
Terry Small, of Prescott, Ariz., has become the 1,000th customer to complete and fly an RV-7. His first flight brought the total number of RVs complete and flown to 7,088. About 10 years of off/on construction were interrupted by a year in Afghanistan and five moves. But Small stuck with it and on Dec. 5 […]