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Sporty’s customers have spoken. Nearly 10,000 votes were cast in an online poll choosing the Cessna 195 as the airplane to adorn Sporty’s 2005 limited edition Crystal Christmas Ornament. This was the first year customers chose the featured aircraft. They showed they were traditionalists by choosing the Cessna 195 over the Cirrus SR22, the Spruce […]

Precise Flight, Inc. has expanded its product line to include the sale of High Intensity Discharge (HID) Aviation Lighting. “Precise Flight is committed to the development of a family of products marketed as essentials for safer skies,” said Scott Philiben, vice president. “We are excited to provide our customers a product that greatly improves their […]

Aircraft Spruce & Specialty, which was a part of the Phantom Air Racer from the beginning as a source of parts and materials, has become an official on-going sponsor of the new and radical biplane. Tom Abele, who was part of the original design team, flew the aircraft in the 2003 Reno Air Races after […]

OK3AIR opened its new FBO facilities in Heber City, Utah, last month. The 6,500-square-foot expansion at Heber Valley Municipal Airport includes amenities for charter, line services, maintenance, sales and flight training. The company, which also operates FBOs in Salt Lake City and Ogden, also added a CJ1 to its aircraft management fleet, which also includes […]

Elliott Aviation has received an STC to install Honeywell’s Runway Awareness and Advisory System (RAAS) in the Beechjet 400A. RAAS offers a safety enhancement to Honeywell’s Mark V Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) and can be added to existing or new installations, providing improved situational awareness to help prevent runway incursions. The system utilizes […]

ECi has been awarded an STC by the FAA for improvements in the Titan replacement cylinders C75, C85, C90, C125, C145, 0-200, 0-300 and GO-300 series engines. “These improvements incorporate dramatically different changes from the original Type Certificate, therefore, a Supplemental Type Certificate had to be chosen as the approval mechanism instead of a Parts […]

Ranger Jet Center, at Kissimmee Gateway Airport (ISM) in Florida, is adding state-of-the-art corporate hangar facilities and an executive terminal. Ranger Jet Center is working to meet the increasing demand for aircraft storage in Central Florida with the addition of seven facilities comprising 166,000 square feet of hangar and office space. The hangars, which feature […]

Cessna Aircraft Co. has chosen L-3 Avionics Systems’ Electronic Standby Instrument System (ESIS) Model GH-3000 as standard equipment aboard the Citation CJ1+ and CJ2+ models. The L-3 system also is available on the CJ3, Bravo, Encore, XLS and Sovereign. Designed to replace conventional electro-mechanical standby attitude, airspeed and altitude instruments, the L-3 Electronic Standby System […]

The Vaisala Ceilometer CL31 is a compact and lightweight instrument for the measurement of cloud base height and vertical visibility. It is able to detect up to three cloud layers simultaneously. The CL31 employs pulse diode laser (LIDAR) technology. Measurement range is from zero to 25,000 feet. The CL31 uses second-generation enhanced single lens technology, […]