AirVenture

With the new aircraft market seemingly in semi-permanent stasis, Cessna surprised us at AirVenture with the announcement of a diesel-powered Skyhawk, the Turbo Skyhawk JT-A. The new model presumably complements the 182 JT-A thats been struggling through certification for more than two years. Cessna says the Skylane is close to completing the final hoops, something […]

Well, it’s not entirely new to Oshkosh, but the Italian company Groppo is launching a new marketing effort for its two-seat tandem Groppo Trail at an eye-catching price. The Trail will be available as an E-LSA, an LSA, and an amateur-built kit, according to Steve Bassinger, who’s representing Groppo in the U.S. Think of it […]

Safe Flight Instrument Corporation, the creator of the stall warning system, introduces the new SCx low-cost angle-of-attack system at AirVenture 2014. Using a leading-edge wing sensor, the two-piece system is budget-priced and aimed initially at experimental aircraft. In this video, Aviation Consumer’s Larry Anglisano takes a look at the system in flight. view on YouTube

This week, you’re attending AirVenture – but where can you fly next week? No matter where you’re based, the SocialFlight app has an answer, from $100 hamburgers to airports where you can see some of the world’s most interesting airplanes. Lead developer and CEO Jeff Simon gives us the inside track on SocialFlight’s September Parade […]

As it promised it would, Continental Motors on Tuesday pulled the wraps off its new 300-hp aerodiesel, giving the company the largest range of Jet-A fueled piston engines in the industry. The company has also rejiggered the branding of the engines, dropping the Centurion nameplate in favor of three model families, the CD 100, 200 […]

Quest Aircraft is showing its Kodiak utility turboprop at EAA AirVenture this week for the 10th year in a row, and new this year, the airplane can be ordered with the Garmin GFC 700 autopilot system. The altitude-based system integrates with the Kodiak’s standard G1000 avionics to provide maximum stability and control for the airplane, […]

Today at AirVenture 2014, Blackhawk Modifications Inc. announced the completion of its 500th new engine upgrade on a customer airplane as well as a new engine upgrade option for the Cessna 208A Caravan and 208B Grand Caravan. A new set of Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-52 engines was installed as part of an overall upgrade […]

Icon flew its first production prototype of the A5 amphibian, ESN-1, for the first time on July 5, and this week, the company brought the airplane to EAA AirVenture. ESN-1 is one of three copies that will be used for flight testing, with the goal of attaining LSA approval for the design by May 2015. […]

In a press conference at AirVenture today, Hartzell Engine Technologies (HET) (sister company to Hartzell Propellers-both owned by Tailwind Technologies) announced that it had acquired the Plane-Power line of aircraft alternators. When the opportunity came to acquire the Plane-Power line we saw it as having tremendous potential, not only to complement Hartzells family of alternators, […]