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In an era when the state-of-the-art aircraft have to be baked in an oven after being laid up in plastic sheets squished together in vacuum bags, it’s hard to imagine that a wood and fabric wonder like the Bellanca Viking still exists. But it does. And although there aren’t great squadrons of them around, the […]

AVweb’s regular perusal of SocialFlight found enough excitement for any aviation junkie this weekend-from the Reno Air Races through Wings and Wheels events to a breakfast tradition that has been going on since 1938. The National Championship Air Races-the world’s fastest motorsport, bar none-have already started at Reno Stead Airport, Nevada, and will run through […]

AVweb has confirmed that Kevin Gould is no longer the president of BendixKing. Staff members were told Gould had “moved on to other opportunities” at a meeting Monday, according to an employee AVweb spoke with briefly who was at the meeting. Exact circumstances of Gould’s departure could not be confirmed by our deadline on Tuesday. […]

Silent Falcon UAS Technologies Selected to Present at the 11th Annual Great Plains Capital Conference Albuquerque, NM – September 3, 2014: Silent Falcon UAS Technologies is pleased to announce it has been selected, for the second year in a row, as a presenter at the Annual Great Plains Capital Conference to be held in Wichita, […]

AVweb’s weekly review of developments in aviation revealed news that Cessna delivered its 10,000th single-engine airplane from its Independence, Kansas, facility, Bell Helicopter broke ground on a new manufacturing facility, Cutter Aviation received a safety award, and the FAA authorized transition training in Bearhawk amateur-built aircraft. Textron Aviation Inc. announced that Cessna Aircraft Company delivered […]

Mexico, MO – Zenith Aircraft will host its 23rd Annual Hangar Day Fly-In and Open House on Saturday, September 20th. The event will run from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and is expected to attract hundreds of builders who have completed, are building, or expect to purchase an all metal Zenith Aircraft kit. Activities actually […]

Mexico, MO – Zenith Aircraft Company is making available their unique blind rivets through Aircraft Spruce and Specialty. Blind (or pulled) rivets are a common type of fastener used in metal kit aircraft construction. They are available in 1/8″ and 5/32″ diameters. What makes the Zenair rivet distinctive is that as the rivet is pulled, […]

Pilots who live in Florida, and especially on the west coast of Florida, have this problem. Its called the Gulf of Mexico. Nice beaches and all, and warm for nine months a year, but if youre going anywhere west of about 85 degrees longitude, youll have the argument with yourself about cutting the corner across […]

It’s not the first time this trick has been done … Kirby Chambliss, for one, did it in Mexico a few years ago … but pilot Skip Stewart is making the airplane-flies-under-jumping-motorcycle stunt part of his routine on the airshow circuit this summer, and this week his online videos went viral. Stewart, who last year […]

Marignane, France, 5 June 2014 – The worldwide fleet of EC225s that perform heli-lift duties for oil and gas operators increased by three today with Airbus Helicopters’ triple delivery of workhorse rotorcraft acquired by Milestone Aviation Group and leased to SonAir – an African operator – which will utilize them in Angola. The handover ceremony […]