Monterey Jet Center at California’s Monterey Peninsula Airport (MRY) will once again play host to Gordon McCall’s Motorworks Revival, the private kick-off party for Monterey Auto Week beginning Aug. 17. This is the 12th year that McCall has held the exclusive event at the Monterey Jet Center facility. Hosted by McCall Events, Inc., a marketing […]
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L-3 sells 15,000th Collision Avoidance System
L-3 Avionics Systems has hit a milestone, with sales of its collision avoidance systems surpassing 15,000 units. The SkyWatch collision avoidance system was the first active traffic detection system certified for general aviation and is used in light aircraft, helicopters and business jets. Midland Instruments, an L-3 Avionics Systems dealer since September 2008, purchased the […]
‘Ultimate Performance Package’ approved
BLR Aerospace has earned FAA certification for its new Ultimate Performance Package (UPP) for the King Air 200GT twin turboprop aircraft. The Ultimate Performance Package was developed in partnership with Hawker Beechcraft Corp. and includes the BLR Winglet System, Hartzell’s latest 4-blade composite propeller, and the Raisbeck Ram Air Recovery System. Each individual system has […]
Rocky Mountain Airshow slated
The 32nd Annual Rocky Mountain Airshow takes off the weekend of Aug. 26-28. The show, at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (BJC) in Broomfield, Colo., will be comprised of aerobatics, afterburners and pyrotechnics, including an appearance by the B2 Stealth Bomber. The show also will feature a “Walk Through Time” in the air and on the […]
Winner Aviation named 208 conversion center
Winner Aviation in Vienna, Ohio, has signed an agreement with Aero Twin of Anchorage to become the world’s first authorized conversion center for Aero Twin’s modification STC that converts Cessna 208 aircraft to Honeywell powered TPE-331 engines at either 850 or 950 shaft horsepower. Known as the 850 Caravan, or 950 Grand Caravan, the firewall […]
Taste of Flight Gala slated
The 5th annual Taste of Flight Gala at Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, Calif., is slated for Oct. 22. Guest of honor will be Louis Zamperini: Olympic Hero, WWII B-24 Bombardier, B-24 crash survivor, and POWm who despite all this went on to build a successful life in postwar America. Zamperini went from […]
BXM adds AWOS
Belfort Instrument Co. has installed its DigiWxTM Automated Weather Observation System (AWOS) at the Brunswick Executive Airport (BXM)) in Brunswick, Maine. The AWOS AV provides real-time wind speed, wind direction, temperature, relative humidity, dewpoint and altimeter setting, visibility, and cloud height information on a graphical display at the FBO office, over the airport’s Unicom radio, […]
Sheltair completes hangar at ORL
Sheltair has completed a new hangar and office complex at the Orlando Executive Airport (ORL). Located north of the Sheltair Orlando FBO on the main ramp of ORL, the new complex consists of a 19,800 square foot hangar with 2,400 square feet of adjacent office space. Sheltair is a privately owned, aviation development company offering […]
Fuel price app debuts
Globalair.com has released FBO Fuel Prices, its first iPhone application designed specifically for locating FBOs with the most competitive fuel prices. Developed for both iPhone and iPad, “This application is appropriately named because it puts pertinent FBO location and fuel pricing information at pilots’ fingertips and provides easy access to real-time information. Even the most […]