The Wednesday, Aug. 8, Wichita Aero Club Luncheon will feature a general aviation industry expert on aviation fuel and the ongoing — and increasingly urgent — need to find a viable replacement for 100LL. A wide-ranging discussion will be lead by Walter Desrosier, vice president of engineering & maintenance for the General Aviation Manufacturers Association […]
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Bellingham Aviation Services joins Avfuel network
Bellingham Aviation Services at Bellingham International Airport (BLI) in Washington state has joined Avfuel’s network of branded FBOs. Flyers taking advantage of this northwestern-United States Port-of-Entry now have access to Avfuel Contract Fuel, AVTRIP rewards and more, officials note. Located 20 miles south of the Canadian border, 50 miles south of Vancouver, B.C., and 90 […]
GAMI’s search for an avgas alternative
Recently, my wife and I decided to take a road trip to Texas to visit friends and fill up on good Cajun and Tex-Mex food. On our return, I stopped to visit GAMI — General Aviation Modifications, Inc. — in Ada, Oklahoma. GAMI builds and sells a line of parts designed to improve performance for […]
Unleaded fuel solution showcased at Oshkosh
Air Plains Services is showcasing its newly branded unleaded fuel solution for flight, Inpulse, from July 23-29 at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis. Oshkosh attendees are invited to stop by booth #339 to talk with Air Plains founder Mike Kelley about Inpulse. Additionally, Kelley will participate on a panel discussion, “Autogas at […]
Lycoming expands list of engines approved to UL91 unleaded avgas
Lycoming Engines will release Service Instruction SI-1070S in the fall, which will add 20 engines to the list of models approved for use on UL 91 unleaded avgas and bringing the total number approved to 55. With the move, Lycoming officials continue to call for UL100 as a fleetwide solution to replacing 100LL. The new […]
California avgas lawsuit fuels surcharge
AVweb is reporting that some California FBOs are imposing a nickel-per-gallon surcharge on 100LL fuel sales to fund a legal defense against an environmental group that’s trying to restrict leaded avgas from the California market. The FBOs, which are part of the California Avgas Coalition, are countersuing the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) and the […]
Fly Unleaded to Oshkosh — U2OSH
The Aviation Fuel Club will hold the first-ever Unleaded to Oshkosh event — U2OSH — at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2012. U2OSH celebrates the 30th anniversary of the FAA’s first approval of lead-free autogas (aka mogas) as an aviation fuel. Any pilot who flies to Oshkosh in an airplane capable of operating on autogas will be […]
New study shows autogas can power 80% of piston aircraft
The Aviation Fuel Club has released initial results from a study that shows between 80% and 83% of the current fleet of piston engine aircraft could safely operate on autogas. First approved by the FAA as an aviation fuel in 1982, autogas (also known as mogas) is ethanol-free, lead-free automotive fuel. Either 87 or 91 […]
A roadmap to finding a new fuel
The transition to an unleaded aviation fuel is still years away, according to the final report from the FAA’s Unleaded Avgas Transition Aviation Rulemaking Committee (UAT ARC). And whether it is GAMI’s G100UL, Swift Fuels biofuel, or some other alternative, all candidate fuels require “significant assessment” by the FAA to ensure safety, according to the […]