This summer, the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Mich., will offer flights -courtesy of Waldo Wright’s Flying Service – in a rare 1929 New Standard D-25 biplane and a PT-17 Boeing Stearman (pictured). Advance gift certificates for these flights, which will be flown from June 11 through Sept. 8, are now available for purchase. The New […]
Pillar Point Electronics acquires Pillar Point Avionics
Pillar Point Electronics (PPE) of Sarasota, Florida, has acquired the assets of Pillar Point Avionics (PPAv), and is now offering PPAv’s low fuel sensing products for sale to builders of experimental aircraft and to other customers needing liquid level detection solutions. Planemakers, a composite aircraft completion assistance center owned by Chris Dougherty and John Januszewski, […]
TCP Fuel Treatment now at Aircraft Spruce
Get the lead out with Alcor’s TCP Fuel Treatment, which is now available for purchase from Aircraft Spruce. When added to the fuel tank of the aircraft, TCP acts as a lead scavenger, reducing spark plug fouling and other harmful effects of 100LL, according to company officials, who add TCP has been found to be […]
Freeflight unveils RAD-40
FreeFlight Systems has introduced a new radar altimeter display, the RAD-40. The panel-mount digital display provides a pilot with a precise readout of the aircraft’s height above ground level on an LED readout. The new display includes a pilot-selectable Decision Height (DH) and five additional trip points (from 100-1,000 feet), all with discrete outputs designed […]
Supplemental lift offered
CitationShares recently unveiled a new program called Supplemental Lift that will be offered to corporations and their flight departments seeking to reduce costs and overhead. Corporations can have access to CitationShares’ fleet of Cessna Citation aircraft to supplement their in-house flight capabilities. Supplemental Lift does not require a company to purchase jet shares or make […]
TSA appoints liaison to GA
The Transportation Security Administration has responded to calls from aviation advocacy groups to listen to industry input and has established a “stakeholder liaison position” dedicated to addressing concerns about recent security measures. Several recent TSA initiatives, including the Large Aircraft Security Program, a security directive that would require additional screenings for general aviation pilots at […]
Riley renews research contract with Notre Dame
Research that is expected to provide insight for speed-of-light, free-space communications occurring between aircraft, aircraft-to-ground, aircraft-to-aircraft and aircraft-to-satellites will continue forward as officials from Notre Dame’s Center for Flow Physics/Controls Aero-Optics and Riley Aviation signed a renewal agreement last week. “We are progressing nicely toward actual flight operations later this year,” said Airborne Aero-Optics’ manager […]
NBAA commends Sen. Brownback’s support of Bizav
National Business Aviation Association president and CEO Ed Bolen last week commended Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) for pointedly explaining the value of business aviation during remarks he made on the Senate floor. “Some federal officials have recently been making the use of business aviation a matter of derision,” the senator told his colleagues. “Well, there […]
Reid Middleton names new director of airport engineering
Reid Middleton, Inc., an Everett, Wash.-based company that provides civil and structural engineering, planning, and surveying services to the aviation industry, has promoted Kurt Addicott, PE, to director of airport engineering. Addicott, an airport engineer with Reid Middleton for seven years, replaces Reinhart Jung, PE, who has served as director for the past 18 years. […]