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FK Lightplanes of Speyer, Germany, has appointed FK Lightplanes USA as its American agent. The Florida company will import the FK9 Mark IV high wing Light Sport Aircraft, which recently won approval as a Special LSA. FK Lightplanes also will introduce to the U.S. the German manufacturer’s other models, which are the folding bi-wing FK12 […]

For almost 50 years, the Commemorative (formerly Confederate) Air Force’s mission has been to preserve and fly World War II aircraft as a tribute to the men and women who flew, maintained or built them. Last October the membership voted to expand the organization to include combat aircraft flown by the U.S. military during any […]

The sale of Air Tractor label replacement batteries will now help fund college education for children of pilots who lost their lives in aerial application accidents involving Air Tractor aircraft. Located in Olney, Texas, Air Tractor and its dealers created the Student Outreach and Assistance Resource (SOAR) Fund to help students who might not otherwise […]

Two wrongful death lawsuits have been filed against Chalk’s Ocean Airways in the wake of a fatal crash Dec. 19. The first was filed on behalf of Kendrick Sherman of Bimini, whose wife and daughter were among the 20 people killed. Attorney John Ruiz says that it is a class action suit, “to insure that […]

Nathan “Bill” Morris, one of the world’s oldest active pilots, died Dec. 29 at the age of 98. He had renewed his medical last August and continued to fly until kidney failure grounded him. Morris developed Kentmorr Airpark (3W3) on Maryland’s Kent Island in 1945, laying out a grass airstrip from what had been a […]

It was a record year for Angel Flight Southeast (AFSE), a nonprofit group of more than 1,000 pilots who volunteer to transport thousands of people free, each year. AFSE coordinated 3,617 flights in 2005, up from 2,635 flights in 2004. Most flights are for medical and humanitarian reasons, and 2005’s increase was largely in response […]

Air show pilot Eric Beard was killed Jan. 6 when his Piper Seneca crashed in fog in Skagit County, Wash. Beard, 47, was flying for Airpac Airlines, a cargo company, at the time of the crash. The plane’s wreckage was found about 400 yards from the runway at Skagit Bayview Airport (BVS) near Mount Vernon. […]

Liberty Aerospace made history with its first customer delivery in December. That’s because the delivery of an XL2 to Thomas Sams, a retired airline captain in Texas, also marked the first retail delivery of a production aircraft in the U.S. equipped with Teledyne Continental Motors Inc. PowerLink Full Authority Digital Engine Control ( FADEC).

Also making a first delivery in late 2005 was Adam Aircraft, which delivered its first A500 centerline piston-engine twin aircraft to a customer during the NBAA convention. “Adam Aircraft has moved from a developmental startup company that makes experimental aircraft to an FAA-certified manufacturer that is delivering standard airworthiness aircraft,” said Rick Adam, chairman and […]