PilotSafety.org is touring Central and Northern California in the next week providing free FAA Wings Safety Classes and safety information from Camarillo to Eureka. The tour, which includes both Town Hall meetings and seminars, is being led by 5000-hour ATP, Master Instructor, FAA Lead Safety Team Rep Gary Reeves. The seminars, which qualify for FAA […]
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Cessna celebrates 100th Grand Caravan EX delivery
Cessna is celebrating the milestone delivery of the 100th Cessna Grand Caravan EX. The aircraft has been delivered to Hussain Ali Rashid Almoalla for use at his aviation club in the United Arab Emirates. Almoalla, who also owns a Cessna Skylane and Cessna Stationair, flew the Cessna Grand Caravan EX back to his home base […]
Take Flight 5K at GMU
The annual Take Flight 5K will take to the runway at the Greenville Downtown Airport (GMU) in South Carolina on May 24. The 5K is being held to help raise money to add playground equipment for children 5 to 12 years old to the aviation-themed community park at the airport. The race will depart from […]
Continental exports flight training model to Europe
After a year and half of testing its dual site flight training approach, Zulu Flight Training is exporting its model to Europe. A division of Continental Motors, Zulu Flight Training has established a new method of training private pilots and instrument rated pilots. Located in city centers, close to where student pilots work or study, Zulu […]
The importance of the preflight
By MICHAEL MAGNELL I have been following the story about the 15-year-old boy from San Jose who stowed away in the main landing gear wheel well of an Hawaiian Airlines B767 going to Honolulu. Here is one amazing aspect of this whole thing — and I am not talking about how the teenager survived the […]
Environmental groups file yet another anti-avgas petition
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three environmental groups filed a petition April 22 asking the Environmental Protection Agency to take action against the continued use of leaded aviation gasoline. Friends of the Earth, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Oregon Aviation Watch have called on the EPA to take the first step needed to begin to regulate lead […]
AirFest takes to the skies over Durant, Oklahoma
The Take to the Skies AirFest returned to Durant, Oklahoma, for its second year March 29. Airshow organizer Debby Standefer, President of D&D Marketing Concepts Inc. said, “The mission of our air shows is to encourage involvement in, and a love for, aviation particularly among our youth. In addition we try to have a unique […]
Super Legend launched in Lakeland
SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas – American Legend Aircraft Co. launched its Lycoming-powered Super Legend on the grounds of SUN ‘n FUN 2014, with the arrival of three new aircraft. The company also announced first customer deliveries of the Super Legend. The aircraft received its FAA approval last November. Currently, production is underway on an order book […]
Great War Flying Museum to bring aircraft to Oshkosh
EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wis. — Four replica aircraft from the Great War Flying Museum of Caledon, Ontario, Canada, will participate in EAA’s World War I aviation centennial activities at the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2014 fly-in, which will be held July 28-Aug. 3 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh. The four aircraft – Sopwith 1-1/2 […]