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A new Light Sport Aircraft parachute system from Ballistic Recovery Systems, Inc. (BRS) will be standard on all Flight Design CT Light Sport Aircraft delivered in the United States. The whole-airplane parachute systems are standard on many aircraft, including all those manufactured by Cirrus. BRS has sold more than 20,000 of the emergency parachute systems […]

Did you know what career you wanted when you were 14 years old? Students at Aviation High School in New York know. By the time they are sophomores, most are well on their way to FAA certification as airframe and powerplant technicians. At the same time, they are earning their high school diplomas. “Some even […]

Quest Aircraft has selected the Garmin 1000 integrated avionics suite as standard equipment for its Kodiak aircraft. The Kodiak, a 10-place utility airplane powered by the Pratt & Whitney PT6A-34 engine, is on track for certification in early 2006. Base price is $1.1 million.

When you were in high school, were you one of those kids who preferred to draw airplanes rather than read a textbook? Although you may have earned detention for that, students at the newly created Wathen Aviation High School in Riverside, Calif., may be encouraged to do it. The school opened Sept. 6 with an […]

Western Michigan University’s College of Aviation, located in Battle Creek, Mich., will replace its entire fleet of Cessna 172s with SR20s and SR22s from Cirrus Design Corp. As part of a 10-year lease agreement, WMU will eventually take delivery of at least 130 Cirrus aircraft, with the first 30 introduced during a phase-in process beginning […]

Diamond Aircraft has delivered its 1000th North American built airplane, a DA40-180 Diamond Star, to Premier Aircraft Sales of Florida. The company has delivered 261 DA20s and DA40s so far this year. With deliveries of the recently certified DA42 TwinStar ramping up in Europe and coming to North America soon, the company expects a significant […]

Seawind, Inc. had record sales at this year’s EAA Oshkosh. The 16 airplanes sold bring the total of soon-to-be certified production aircraft orders to 46, with first deliveries scheduled for the first quarter of 2006. Seawind has been moving steadily toward certification over the past few years. Initial orientation flights are being conducted in the […]

Four airports in Texas and Louisiana that were damaged by Hurricanes Rita and Katrina will receive more than $16 million as the first installment of federal funds to pay for repairs, according to Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta. Louisiana’s Lake Charles Regional Airport will receive almost $8 million to fund repairs to the terminal […]

Lockheed Martin assumed operation of 58 Automated Flight Service Stations (AFSS) Oct. 4, following an eight-month phase-in period that began Feb. 1, when the company was awarded a $1.7 billion contract. More than 1,750 former FAA employees now work for Lockheed Martin.