It will be a busy summer maintenance season for members of the Gulf Coast Wing of the Commemorative Air Force. The group is the proud owner of a B-17G, “Texas Raider,” which it has spent the past several years restoring with the intent of getting it back into the air. The work was interrupted last […]
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Back by popular demand: Lockwood Aircraftto re-introduce Air-Cam at Oshkosh
The Air-Cam returns to the big show this year with a new owner. Lockwood Aircraft, a new company formed by Phil Lockwood, owner of Lockwood Aviation Supply, will exhibit the Air-Cam and the Drifter light aircraft during this year’s AirVenture, later this month. Lockwood Aircraft will display both land and amphibious versions of the twin-engine […]
Flying into Colorado’s mountain airports soon will be easier: New system uses ADS-B to help during busy ski season
The Colorado Department of Transportation soon will provide radar-like surveillance to mountain airports in the Centennial State. The project, formally called the Colorado Air Traffic Control Beacon Interrogator (CO-ATCBI) Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) System, was undertaken because of the increase in air traffic at Colorado’s mountain airports during the ski season. During periods of inclement […]
Auction raises $500,000 for The Sporty’s Foundation
The auction for Sporty’s Cessna Citation Mustang (serial #13) successfully ended at 1:15 pm on June 8 with the winning bidder paying $3,117,000 for the aircraft. It was anticipated that the winning bidder, who has requested anonymity, would take delivery of his brand-new Cessna Citation Mustang in Independence, Kansas, by the end of June. Training […]
Greg Turton found a way to beat the heat – and started a new company: Artic Air takes off as poilots clamor for poratble air conditioners
Necessity is the mother of invention. Just ask Greg Turton, an Atlanta businessman who owns a Cirrus. Often spending 30 minutes or more waiting to take off in the crowded Atlanta airspace, he realized he needed air conditioning, but at $25,000 to $30,000, it was just too expensive. “I wouldn’t pay that much for it,” […]
FAA R&D bills moves through Congress
While other major FAA programs are bogged down in Congressional controversy, reauthorization of the agency’s research and development projects appears to be sailing through the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics. Subcommittee Chairman Mark Udall (D-Colo.) introduced the Federal Aviation Research and Development Reauthorization Act of 2007 late in June. It reauthorizes some existing projects, […]
Do-it-yourself publishing: Have a burning pasion to tell a story of flight?
Publication of aviation books has been something of a “cottage industry” almost from the beginning of manned flight. No less a figure than Benjamin Franklin self-published one of the first accounts of manned balloon flights, which he witnessed from the streets of Philadelphia. While not exactly a book – pamphlet might come closer – it […]
Beechcraft celebrates Bonanza’s 60th year: Company to commemorate75th anniversary at Oshkosh
Hawker Beechcraft Corp. will celebrate two milestones at this year’s AirVenture in Oshkosh: The 60th anniversary of the Beechcraft Bonanza and the 75th anniversary of Beechcraft. The celebrations begin with the Bonanzas to Oshkosh arrival on Saturday, July 21. More than 100 Bonanzas and Barons of all models will make the annual trek from Rockford, […]
Doctors pressured to ‘go along’ on Horace Williams closure: University continues push to shut down the North Carolina airport
Doctors at the University of North Carolina’s Area Health Education Center (AHEC) say they have been pressured to go along with the university’s controversial plan to close Horace Williams Airport (IGX) in Chapel Hill. The on-campus field allows doctors to fly to far-flung areas of the state quickly and efficiently. The university wants to close […]