Air Shows & Events

Piper will be delivering the first copy of its own PiperSport light sport aircraft at Sun ‘n Fun on Tuesday afternoon. The airplane has been tweaked a bit from the SportCruiser model by Czech Sport Aircraft that the company adopted. Besides the fresh paint job, Piper’s version of the LSA includes a beefed-up nosegear, a […]

Spot, a handheld satellite GPS messaging unit, is now shipping in its latest version, distribution manager Greg Wilkinson told AVweb on Monday. The new version is smaller than the original unit, weighing in at only 5.2 ounces, with added features. The Spot taps in to the company’s own global satellite network, which covers most of […]

For the next week, Lakeland, Fla., will be the center of the aviation universe, as the little airport becomes the busiest field in the world, with more than 40,000 takeoffs and landings expected during Sun ‘n Fun. Tuesday, the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will thunder in, and they will fly again Thursday through Sunday. Each […]

AVweb was on-hand for the 2010 Aircraft Electronics Association show in Orlando, Florida. Here’s an overview of our video coverage (with individual links), and you can click here for an index of our complete 2010 coverage in one place. Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click […]

Moving map displays for the cabin have come a long way since they were introduced and Flight Data Systems has come up with a plug-and-play upgrade for some of the pioneering systems still installed on business aircraft. The new gear fits pin-for-pin into the racks holding Rockwell Airshow 100, 200 and 400 series units but […]

As any traditional Internet service provider will attest, flexibility is key in the competitive marketplace, and that movement has hit the relatively new field of airborne broadband for business aircraft. At the Aircraft Electronics Association convention in Orlando, Aircell announced that it will introduce a pay-as-you-go program for its Internet system. Existing programs only offer […]

The FAA Administrator took the occasion this morning at the Aircraft Electronics Association annual meeting in Orlando to describe some of the advantages of NextGen, the highly touted and much anticipated future of America’s aviation system. “5.6 percent of the nation’s GDP is represented by the aviation industry,” Babbitt told the group, “and aviation impacts […]

PS Engineering announced Thursday at the Aircraft Electronics Association convention in Orlando a new, FAA-certified, Bluetooth-enabled audio panel, the PMA8000BT, that it expects to ship by the end of Q2. The technology allows pilots and passengers to wirelessly connect smart phones to the audio panel, which can then distribute the phone’s music, cellular telephone access, […]

From the latest wonderboxes to the tools that highly-trained specialists use to troubleshoot and fix them, chances are that if it has a circuit board it’s at the Aircraft Electronics Association annual meeting in Orlando. The show opened Thursday and AVweb‘s Editorial Director Paul Bertorelli is on the convention floor. Hundreds of exhibitors and thousands […]

The air show season opened on a high note for 2010 with a healthy turnout of both exhibitors and patrons at the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Fla. The four-day show wrapped up Sunday and AVweb‘s Paul Bertorelli and Jeb Burnside were there to capture the highlights on video. The first five videos are […]