SeaMax USA is celebrating a milestone this year: The 10th anniversary of AirMax, the parent company that manufactures the SeaMax M22 amphibious Light Sport Aircraft. This year, the 98th SeaMax rolled off the assembly line, according to company officials. The SeaMax has been certified in several countries and was the first S-LSA amphibious aircraft in […]
Aircraft
First SkyCatcher to be delivered this year
Cessna will deliver the first Model 162 Skycatcher Light Sport Aircraft to the first customer of the model later this year. The customer, Rose Pelton, wife of the company’s chairman, president and CEO, will use the LSA to pursue her private pilot’s license. “When I first saw the Skycatcher mockup at Oshkosh in 2007, I […]
Grand Forks Herald: Cirrus lays of 32 in Grand Forks
A story posted at the Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald reports that Cirrus is laying off 32 employee from its Grand Forks plant, and another 26 at its Duluth headquarters. From the story: “We had been staffed to a level higher than current demand and (Wednesday’s) changes are not a reflection of reduced demand,” Todd Simmons, […]
Cessna nears 300th Mustang delivery
Cessna Aircraft Company is nearing delivery of its 300th Citation Mustang. “The Citation Mustang order book has remained fairly resilient during the past year,” said Roger Whyte, senior vice president, sales and marketing. “It has found success in air taxi and charter operations, in flight departments, in training organizations, as well as with owner-operators.” The […]
50th anniversary Baron model unveiled
Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (HBC) is marking the 50th anniversary of its high performance piston twin, the Beechcraft Baron by offering a limited edition model. More than 6,700 aircraft have been produced since the first Baron-55 was introduced in 1960. “The success of the Baron is a testament to its exceptional design, innovation and value-enhancing improvements […]
Farnborough’s Kestrel in-flight video
Farnborough Aircraft has posted a nearly six minute video of the Kestrel single-engine turboprop in flight. The plane will look familiar as it shares design lineage with Epic Aircraft’s LT. The legal battle with Epic ended in 2006. Under new ownership since the beginning of 2009, Farnborough Aircraft is collaborating with Liberty Aerospace of Melbourne, […]
Remos GX is 2010 AOPA sweeps aircraft
AOPA at the Aviation Summit announced the 2010 sweepstakes airplane will be a 2009 Remos GX. The planes winner will be announced at the 2010 Aviation Summit in Long Beach, November 11-13.
LSA stars in Neiman Marcus Christmas Book
Featured in this year’s Neiman Marcus Christmas Book is a “His & Hers Gift Package” that includes an ICON A5 amphibious Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) with custom trailer and Sport Pilot license training for two. Now in development, the ICON A5 is from a team of engineers and designers who helped create the Virgin Global […]
Texas Raiders returns to the air
Completing the restoration of a vintage aircraft to airworthy status is always a cause for celebration, especially when the plane is one of only a handful of B-17s in the world. No one knows this better than the members of the Gulf Coast Wing of the Commemorative Air Force, who have been laboring on the […]