WASHINGTON, D.C. — The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) released the industry’s shipment and billings figures for the first quarter today, showing a mixed performance across the different segments of general aviation. In the first three months of 2012, total worldwide general aviation airplane shipments fell 2.1%, from 377 in 2011 to 369 this year. […]
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Aviation Appreciation Month in New York
A resolution initiated by the New York Aviation Management Association asking Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim May 2012 as Aviation Appreciation Month in the State of New York recently passed both the New York State Senate and the Assembly. The resolution was sponsored by Senator William Larkin and Assemblymember Donna Lupardo, Co-Chairs of the […]
Aviation artifacts to be auctioned
RR Auction’s Space and Aviation Autograph and Artifact Auction, scheduled to take place from May 17 to May 23, includes a selection of early aviation items, including an exceedingly rare, handwritten letter by Wilbur Wright from 1910 to a student pilot discussing their “new machines” which “are much steadier in strong winds and easier to […]
PilotMall.com opens retail store at LAL
PilotMall.com now has a retail store open every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the SUN ‘n FUN Campus on the Lakeland-Linder Regional Airport (LAL) in Lakeland, Fla. The store has more than 1,000 aviation-related items in stock. The shop held its grand opening April 27, and is open on Saturdays only, featuring […]
International Learn to Fly Day May 19
On Saturday, May 19, dozens of local events will turn dreams of flight into reality during the third annual International Learn to Fly Day, a general aviation community-wide effort to help people of all ages take that first step to discover flight. Find a local International Learn to Fly Day event near you at LearnToFly.org. […]
Wheels up and around the world
Three Cessna Mustang jets, one Embraer Phenom 100, two Daher-Socata TBM turboprops and 16 people departed Quebec City, Canada, toward Greenland May 9 for the first leg of an 11-week trip to circumnavigate the world. The group of general aviation pilots will visit 27 countries and fly their planes 25,000 nautical miles before returning to […]
Free general aviation pilot safety seminars slated
The North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Division of Aviation is sponsoring a series of free pilot safety seminars across the state on May 12, 14-16. The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Air Safety Institute will present the two-hour safety seminars at four locations across North Carolina. The presentation, titled “Wanted Alive,” discusses trends in general […]
Garmin’s 100 million milestone
Garmin officials are celebrating the company’s latest milestone: It has sold more than 100 million of its products to pilots, motorists, boaters, runners, cyclists, golfers, hikers, hunters, and geocachers — who all depend on Garmin to help show the way. “This is a tremendous milestone for Garmin. In just 23 years, we’ve gone from a […]
Volunteer pilots fly to help whooping cranes
As if being raised by humans in bird suits and taught to migrate by an ultralight aircraft wasn’t challenging enough, a reintroduced flock of endangered whooping cranes now faces a new challenge: Mastering nesting and rearing chicks. But crane biologists and general aviation pilots are banding together to use flights in small airplanes to see […]