Air Shows & Events

How often do you get to buy a piece of green aviation history? Randell Fishman’s ElectraFlyer-C-a heavily modified Moni homebuilt motorglider powered by an 18W electric motor and battery pack-is for sale to the highest bidder on eBay. “As far as I know, this is the first practical electric airplane ever,” said Fishman. “Someday that’ll […]

Arty Trost, 65, has been flying her “fat ultralight” MaxAir Drifter, which is now classified as an experimental LSA, for more than 19 years, and this year she flew it from her home in Oregon all the way to Sun ‘n Fun. Altogether, the seven-week round trip will cover about 7,500 miles, all of it […]

Business is booming at Build A Plane, President Lyn Freeman told AVweb at Sun ‘n Fun this week. The nonprofit group works to find old airplanes that need a new life, and pairs them up with schools that create projects to teach kids about science and technology. The donors get a tax write-off, the schools […]

Avemco Insurance has moved 13 Light Sport Aircraft models into its most preferred rate class and owners of those aircraft can expect premium reductions in the coming year. Avemco CEO Jim Lauerman told AVweb in a podcast interview that factors like company stability, parts availability and, of course, the claims record were all taken into […]

With the sun high in the sky and very few clouds in sight, staff photographer Mariano Rosales made his way over to “Paradise City” to check out the ultralights. CLICK FOR LARGER INDIVIDUAL IMAGES EACH IMAGE WILL OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW

Teledyne Continental, Hawker Beechcraft and Swift Fuels marked Earth Day Wednesday by announcing successful test flights of a Bonanza fueled with the Swift Fuel cellulose-based biofuel that is being touted as a replacement for 100LL. The maker of the fuel claims it can be made for half the cost of avgas and deliver more miles […]

Tuesday was the first day the show was officially open to the public, and we sent staff photographer Mariano Rosales off to check our the Sport Plane area. CLICK FOR LARGER INDIVIDUAL IMAGES EACH IMAGE WILL OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW

Cirrus said this week that it has suspended for now its work on bringing an LSA to market. “Our interest in the project hasn’t changed,” Patrick Waddick, Cirrus vp of operations, told AVweb on Wednesday. “We are still very interested in the LSA market, and we will keep coming back to re-evaluate that decision.” The […]

From now on kids who take a Young Eagles flight will leave the airport with more than a cherished memory. Sporty’s Pilot Shop has teamed up with EAA to ensure that all of the approximately 100,000 youth who take a Young Eagles flight with an EAA volunteer pilot get a logbook and access to Sporty’s […]

Rick Schrameck, CEO of Epic Aircraft, launched back-to-back news conferences this week — one on Tuesday and another on Wednesday — to show off a handful of new designs available to the experimental market. On Tuesday, he unveiled a scale model of a twin-engine turboprop named Elegance that he called a “next-generation King Air,” which […]