Richard Hrezo submitted this photo and note: “My 8-year-old grandson John has racked up 45 flights in my RV-7A and doesn’t hesitate to earn his keep with a screwdriver and youthful flexibility. He loves everything airplane and aviation and is a ‘good stick.’ This allows ‘Pop’ to sip coffee while those access panels come off.”
Maintenance
Fargo Jet Center undergoing $22 million expansion
The new complex includes a 27,000-square-foot maintenance hangar, a 23,000-square-foot hangar dedicated to aircraft special mission modifications, as well as maintenance and avionics support offices, technical workspace, and rooms for composite fabrication, paint, and sheet metal fabrication.
Aviation Mechanic textbook updated
The fifth edition features updated content reflecting new regulations and changes affecting aviation mechanic certification. Recent innovations in batteries and alternative fuels are also included, according to officials with Aviation Supplies & Academics (ASA).
FAA moving AD databases Aug. 16
Emergency Airworthiness Directives and Airworthiness Directives (AD) will now be available on the agency’s new Dynamic Regulatory System.
ASA adds Aviation Mechanic Airman Certification Standards to library
ASA has included references for each subject, so applicants, instructors, and evaluators will know which FAA publication to look to for additional guidance on the subject, including the scope and depth of the expected knowledge and skill.
Duncan Aviation’s Leo Sawatzki receives Charles Taylor Master Mechanic Award
Leo Sawatzki spent 32 years of his 50-year career in aviation maintenance at Duncan Aviation.
ASA releases fourth edition of Airframe Systems
Originally written by Dale Crane in 1994, the textbook has been updated by an editorial team consisting of aviation mechanics, inspection authorization holders, university professors, aircraft owners, and aviation maintenance journalists.
In search of ‘school-worthy’ parts
A brilliant idea. No doubt many of us have collected random parts in the hopes of returning them to airworthy status. Now, they could be something even better: “School-worthy.”
New online maintenance courses introduced
Curriculum of Part 147 schools training students to become aviation maintenance technicians.