The first new-production DHC-6 Series 400 Twin Otter has taken its initial flight from Viking’s final assembly facility in Calgary, Alberta. The aircraft, manufacturers serial number (MSN) 845, Canadian registration C-FMJO, is the first new production Twin Otter since de Havilland Canada ended production in 1988 with the delivery of MSN 844. Sold to launch […]
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Managing and marketing GA airports
The Transportation Research Board of the National Academies will conduct a web briefing or “webinar” on Tuesday, April 6, from 2: p.m.–4 p.m. EDT that will explore managing and marketing small airports. The webinar is pegged off two new reports: Guidebook for Managing Small Airports, which is designed to act as a single source of […]
Historic DC-3 to be on display at GMU
The recently restored Flagship Detroit, a DC-3 delivered to American Airlines in 1937, will be on display at Greenville Downtown Airport (GMU) in South Carolina March 21 and 22. Owned and operated by a private volunteer foundation, the oldest flying DC-3 in the world has recently completed a major restoration to return the exterior and […]
Exhibitor count up for AERO
The team organizing this year’s AERO international aviation trade show in Friedrichshafen, Germany, promises this year’s event will be better than ever, with exhibitor numbers exceeding initial expectations. Project Manager Thomas Grunewald has expressed strong confidence in the trade show, to be held on the grounds of Messe Friedrichshafen from April 8-12. “We asked exhibitors […]
The Finer Points of Flying debuts Virtual Office Hours
The Finer Points of Flying has introduced Virtual Office Hours. Through one-on-one video chat or telephone appointments, Jason Miller, a CFI and the host of The Finer Points of Flying, elaborates on some of the finer points of particular courses of training in sessions that replicate dual ground training. Virtual Office Hours helps pilots of […]
Pratt & Whitney establishes Engineering Center of Excellence at UConn
Pratt & Whitney has established a Center of Excellence at the University of Connecticut (UConn) School of Engineering for research in the field of aviation propulsion systems. Pratt & Whitney will work with UConn on research initiatives that support the design and development of more efficient gas turbine engines. The university’s primary focus will be […]
PS Engineering celebrates silver anniversary
In 1985, as Ronald Reagan began his second term as president and pop stars recorded “We are the World” for famine relief, two young engineers went to work in a basement to solve a problem: Conversations in a small airplane cockpit are uncomfortable at best, impossible at worst. Eric Persson (Mr. P) and Mark Scheuer […]
Have lunch with the Tuskegee Airmen
Fantasy of Flight is expanding the first of its three-part Living History Series Symposiums by adding a luncheon with the Tuskegee Airmen. The Tuskegee Airmen symposium, called “They Dared to Fly,” takes place Thursday, Feb. 18 through Saturday, Feb. 20, and features several open-forum/question-and-answer sessions with three Tuskegee Airmen — Dr. Roscoe Brown, Lt. Col. […]
SuperFlite Practice Kits now available
Superflite Practice Kits are now available from Wicks Aircraft for learning how to work with Superflite finishing materials or for making small repairs to a fabric-covered aircraft. Any homebuilder or antique restorer with a project requiring fabric covering will find the step-by-step instructions easy to follow for practice or patching small areas, according to Wicks […]