Air Shows & Events

Ohio State University has received a gift of $10 million to support aviation education and research on campus, the school announced this week at EAA AirVenture. The gift from the Austin E. Knowlton Foundation will support construction of a new facility at Don Scott Field, with state-of-the-art flight simulators, research labs and classrooms. More than […]

Busy and Some Things With Legs This year marks my 27th or 28th Oshkosh tour—I can’t exactly remember which for sure. I would characterize the week as busy and moderately consequential. By consequential, I mean I saw things that made me believe they’ll have legs in the market and have some impact on sales and […]

The Commemorative Air Force continued its aggressive fundraising campaign to restore That’s All, Brother, the C-47 that led the D-Day invasion. The historic aircraft, on display this week at AirVenture, drew continuous crowds of visitors who wanted the chance to take a peek inside and learn more about its history. view on YouTube

At AirVenture, the Military Aviation Museum of Virginia Beach brought a real treat: a superbly restored de Havilland Mosquito. In this exclusive AVweb AirVenture video, Paul Bertorelli took a cockpit tour with pilot Mike Spalding and interviewed Warren Denholm on the restoration. view on YouTube

Many vintage and even newer BendixKing autopilots require the pricey vacuum-driven mechanical KI-256 attitude gyro, which can be real money to overhaul or replace. BendixKing has a modern alternative with the KI-300 solid-state, MEMS-based digital attitude display. In this video, Aviation Consumereditor Larry Anglisano takes a look at the instrument with BendixKing’s Roger Dykeman while […]

In this video, AVweb intern Ashley Anglisano shows you some of the excitement she captured while wandering the grounds at AirVenture 2015 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. view on YouTube

In tightly knit pilot communities, an accident often has profound effects on the group because most people in it know the accident pilot. That was definitely the case with the Larry Glazer TBM accident in 2014, in which the pilot became unresponsive, apparently due to hypoxia, and overflew his destination, crashing at sea near Jamaica. […]

As the world’s largest democracy and free market, India may become a fertile place to expand general aviation. And according to S. P. Shukla, head of Mahindra’s aerospace division, it’s already happening. In this AVweb podcast, Shukla said Mahindra’s acquisition of Airvan will allow the company to expand GA both to the personally owned aircraft […]

Zenair is now offering a two-week factory-assist program for its CH 750 Cruzer kit aircraft, the company announced this week at EAA AirVenture. Participants in the program will work at the Zenair factory in Ontario, Canada, and by the end of the two weeks, they’ll have partially completed the airframe; attached the wings and tail; […]