Air Shows & Events

Cessna’s new CEO is promising a “renewed focus on our propeller [aircraft] business” following a major restructuring of senior management. In his first public outing as CEO since taking over four months ago following the sudden retirement of Jack Pelton, Scott Ernest gave a generally upbeat overview of the company operations and future. In an […]

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Click here for all our news stories from AirVenture – both for 2011 and previous years. And our AVwebAudio newsletter has the complete run-down of this year’s multimedia coverage: Want to get AVwebAudio in your inbox every Friday? Just log in to AVweb (or create a free account in the upper right corner of this […]

The annual gathering of the aviation world at EAA AirVenture features not only thousands of airplanes, but tens of thousands of people. Mary Grady’s gallery shows us some of the planes and a few of the personalities, too. This image gallery requires JavaScript. Among the many Burt Rutan designs on display at Conoco-Phillips Plaza was […]

Aerostar Aircraft Corporation has taken two Pratt & Whitney 615 FADEC engines and slung them under the wings of an Aerostar to create what Aerostar’s Jim Christy says will be a jet capable of 400-plus knots. Christy flew the jet to AirVenture Oshkosh for the jet’s first major public debut and says he’s testing the […]

As AirVenture 2011 begins to wind down, we look back over a week of airplanes, camaraderie, and new product roll-outs that appeal to the gadget geek lurking inside every pilot. Our AirVenture intern Adam is already home by now, but he left behind this exciting batch of photos centered on the afternoon air shows to […]

Redbird Flight Simulations makes tabletop and full-motion flight simulators for flight schools all over the world and this November will open a simulator-centric flight school. The company is opening what it’s calling an aviation laboratory in San Marcos, Texas to study the effectiveness of simulation in flight training. Jerry Gergoire, president of Redbird, says that […]

As EAA AirVenture heads into the weekend, we asked Adam to grab some photos of some of this year’s big attractions. Just like the folks on-site here at Oshkosh, you folks at home are free to look, but please don’t touch. (Unless you’re on an iPad.) This image gallery requires JavaScript. An old Stearman with […]

Several hundred teachers from around the country — many of them pilots — gathered at the EAA Museum on Tuesday for Build A Plane’s annual Teachers Day event. Jeff Skiles, the first officer on “Miracle on the Hudson” Flight 1549, was among the speakers, who also included guests from EAA, AOPA, the Smithsonian National Air […]

Anyone who thinks that electric aircraft are just for dreamers and tinkerers might think twice after seeing the lineup of speakers at EAA’s Electric Aircraft World Symposium, held on Friday and Saturday during AirVenture. The event, sponsored by GE Aviation, brought in experts from the U.S. Air Force, NASA Langley, Sikorsky Aircraft, Argonne National Labs, […]