Air Shows & Events

Piper Aircraft has sold 35 single-engine and twin-engine training aircraft to CAE, which will add the airplanes to the Oxford Aviation Academy fleets in Phoenix, Ariz., and Oxford, U.K., the companies announced Tuesday at Sun ‘n Fun. The agreement includes firm orders for 22 single-engine Archer TX training airplanes and 13 twin-engine trainers, as well […]

Sagetech, a company little known among general aviation pilots, has introduced a new portable ADS-B box at Sun ‘n Fun that combines weather, traffic and a compact, sophisticated AHRS with synthetic vision. If it sounds like this gadget can turn your iPad into a basic EFIS, that’s exactly what it does, according to Sagetech. Measuring […]

As yet more portable ADS-B products hit the market, Sporty’s Pilot Shop is out today with a second generation of its hot-selling Stratus. The new device is being produced in a partnership between Sporty’s, ForeFlight and Appareo, which developed the hardware. Like the Clarity, it will feature dual-band traffic and an AHRS to be displayed […]

Every airshow, no matter where or when, has its share of challenges, and hopefully its share of good luck, too, and this year’s edition of Sun ‘n Fun, in Lakeland, Fla., seems to have plenty of both. No military jet team will appear to split the sky with a pure booming roar, thanks to the […]

The president of the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association says the industry has been underreporting the impact of the LSA sector on aviation as a whole and is remedying that with new numbers. Dan Johnson told AVweb at Sun ‘n Fun in Lakeland, Fla., that his group took a conservative approach to reporting LSA numbers by […]

Well, it’s not entirely new, but it’s the first time this no-nonsense pickup truck of an airplane has appeared at Sun ‘n Fun and in the U.S. The Discovery 201 is an offshoot of a Russian design called the Akord 201, which found some service in Russia as a heavy-hauling utility airplane. The aircraft has […]

The FAA’s decision to delay its tower shutdowns until June was a save for Sun ‘n Fun, but the federal government still has declined to pay all the expenses of sending 50 extra controllers and 20 technicians to cope with the traffic, so the bill — an estimated $285,000 — is going to the Sun […]

MyGoFlight, which sells cases, mounts, bags and other accessories for iPads, is offering a “Mastering the iPad” seminar at Sun ‘n Fun 2013. The company says the seminars will help pilots choose the best apps for their needs and identify strategies for optimizing use of the tablets in both preflight and in-flight scenarios. Specific topics […]

The Aircraft Electronics Association opened its 56th convention and trade show in Las Vegas Tuesday with an eye-opening number: $6.3 billion. That’s the current size of the avionics industry — including new installation and retrofits, but not repairs — according to a recently compiled economic study done by the association based on 2012 sales. The […]

Twenty seven years after the fact, Dick Rutan says he’s somewhat astonished that he and Jeana Yeager made it around the world in the Burt Rutan-designed Voyager, given the rudimentary avionics of the day and the fact that the airplane had so little surplus load factor that moderate turbulence would have torn it apart. As […]