AUSTIN, Texas – Bearhawk Aircraft has completed the delivery of two Bearhawk LSA aircraft kits to South Africa and New Zealand. The Bearhawk LSA, available as a Quick-Build kit, is a two-place tandem seated aircraft resembling the Piper Super Cub and other high-wing aircraft used for sport, recreation and utility. It differs by its single-strut-braced, all aluminum wings […]
Experimental Aircraft
FAA audits Sonex models
OSHKOSH, Wis. — Sonex Aircraft recently hosted the FAA’s National Kit Evaluation Team (NKET), as it audited the new Sonex and Waiex B-Model kits, and the new Xenos Motorglider Quick Build Kit. NKET evaluation is used to establish a kit’s compliance with Experimental Amateur Built aircraft “major portion” or “51%” rules. FAA NKET Amateur-Built Fabrication and Assembly Checklists for the new Sonex […]
Sun Flyer prototype unveiled
DENVER, Colorado – Aero Electric Aircraft Corp. (AEAC), which is developing the high-tech, solar-electric Sun Flyer general aviation flight trainer, hosted a rollout event of its proof of concept (POC) Sun Flyer May 11 at Centennial Airport. The airplane unveiled publicly for the first time is a two-seat POC prototype version of Sun Flyer. Performance data […]
Turbine Venom to be powered by GE Aviation engine
CINCINNATI, Ohio – Turbine Air Corporation has selected GE Aviation’s H75 turboprop engine to power its new Turbine Venom aircraft. The Turbine Venom is an aircraft manufactured on an approved FAA kit build status. The Turbine Venom is the next-generation version of the Turbine Legend, which began production in 1998. Produced entirely of carbon fiber and […]
V24 debuts at SUN ‘n FUN
Making its debut at SUN ‘n FUN was the V24 from Softex Aero, a four-seat, low-wing, composite, twin-engine, T-tail, experimental. The wing is constructed as a single piece. According to Softex Aero’s Dara Voss, the composite fuselage then sits atop the wing. “This plane was shipped to the U.S., from the Ukraine, two weeks ago […]
XTI seeks $2 million more for TriFan 600 prototype
DENVER, Colo. — Officials with XTI Aircraft Company (XTI) say they are accelerating the development program for the TriFan 600 vertical takeoff airplane, and are “redoubling efforts to translate excitement about the aircraft into $3 million in actual investments.” The $3 million milestone is essential to fund important next steps in an accelerated development program that includes flying […]
Luminati Aerospace debuts solar-powered electric plane at SUN ‘n FUN
With a goal of “perpetual flight,” Daniel Preston and a small group of engineers and professors are working to design an unmanned, autonomous, solar-powered electric airplane that can achieve that milestone of staying aloft around the clock … even during the longest, darkest night of the year. And why, you might ask, would you need […]
First Lycoming-powered Lancair Evolution flying
Lancair has sold 76 Evolution kits; 61 are currently flying. So what makes one particular model unique? Its powerplant. Rather than use a Pratt & Whitney PT-6, this Evolution holds a 350-horsepower, electronically controlled Lycoming iE2 engine.“Climb up to 17,500-feet, set the power to burn 12 gph and cruise along at 205 knots in pressurized […]
Flight Design deliveries imminent, adds ADS-B solution
Flight Design USA reported its first shipment of CTLS and CTLSi aircraft from AeroJones Aviation will arrive at Airtime Aviation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, late this week or early next. AeroJones Aviation, from Taichung, Taiwan, will produce and distribute, under license, the CT-series of aircraft for Flight Design of Germany. AeroJones will also manufacture spare parts as […]