West Star Aviation has acquired Dallas Aeronautical Services (DAS), a composite, structures and assembly repair shop located in Cedar Hill, Texas. Founded in 2004 as an engineering and design company to help repair stations find new ways to repair composite components, DAS is a FAA/EASA Part 145 Repair Station providing service and support for corporate and commercial […]
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Glasair Sportsman to be certified
If you plan to build a Glasair Sportsman 2+2 from a kit, you should probably place an order sometime within the next year or so, according to company officials, who recently advised the FAA of plans to apply for certification of the popular plane under Part 23. Once certification is achieved, the company expects to […]
Chinese aviators honor the Flying Tigers
During this year’s SUN ‘n FUN, a group of Chinese and Americans gathered beside the B-25J “Panchito,” an aircraft similar to the one used during the famous Doolittle Raid on Tokyo. The Chinese came to honor American airmen who fought with the Chinese against the Japanese in World War II. In particular, they commemorated the […]
South Carolina to launch aerospace curriculum in high schools
Beginning this fall, six high schools across South Carolina will offer aerospace engineering classes, including: Battery Creek High School in Beaufort. Edisto High School in Cordova. Emerald High School in Greenwood. Pickens County Career and Technology Center in Liberty (2018 – 2019 school year). RB Stall High School in Charleston. Sumter Career and Technology Center in Sumter. […]
Duncan Aviation’s Austin facility receives FAA certification
Duncan Aviation‘s Austin, Texas, workaway station is now a full-fledged, FAA-certified, Duncan Aviation Satellite Avionics Shop. Reginald Rutley, who has been a familiar face at the Duncan Aviation Satellite Shop in Dallas and at the workaway station at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport for the last 13 years, has accepted the position of Manager of the […]
‘No better bargain on the planet’
As the 2017 air show season shifts into high gear during the next few weeks, millions of families have discovered a secret: The memories that children and adults take away from air shows are more vivid, more dramatic, and more tangible than any major league sporting event, concert or theme park visit…at a small fraction of […]
FAA releases study on drone collision hazards
WASHINGTON, D.C. – What would happen if a drone hits a person on the ground? What’s the risk of serious injury? Although the FAA can’t yet definitively answer those questions, studies by a consortium of universities have made a start toward better understanding the risks of allowing small unmanned aircraft – or drones – to […]
KLA-100 debuts at Aero 2017
The new KLA-100 — quietly in development for two years — made its first flight a few days before AERO 2017 and was unveiled at the show. “The first flight was performed in Sumperk, Czech Republic, in late March with test pilot Richard Ponizil at the controls. Since that time the plane has made seven more flights and […]
118 women pilots set to compete in air race
The field is set for the 41st Air Race Classic (ARC), the annual all-women cross-country airplane race. Fifty-four teams, consisting of 118 women pilots from across the country and around the world, will take off Tuesday, June 20, 2017, from Frederick, Maryland, for a 2,648-mile sprint across the United States that ends Friday, June 23, […]