Air Shows & Events

Flying light airplanes can easily take you outside of cellphone range, especially for pilots who fly in backcountry environments. A forced landing, even if successful, could leave you out of touch and with no good way to call for assistance. That can be deadly if the pilot or a passenger is injured. As part of […]

Extra Aircraft’s recently promoted CEO Duncan Koerbel introduced the buyer of the first production Extra 330SX on Friday (July 28) at the International Aerobatics Club building during EAA AirVenture. Longtime Extra operator and Advanced/Unlimited USA Team pilot Bob Freeman sat in the front row of the press conference and later posed for photos with Marcus […]

Authorities have released the names of four people killed in two fatal accidents within three hours of each other at AirVenture 2023 Saturday. The first involved a T-6 Texan that went down in Lake Winnebago under unknown circumstances with two people on board. Dead are Devyn Reiley, 30, of New Braunfels, Texas, and her passenger […]

Continental Aerospace vice president for global sales and applications engineering Oliver Leber talked with AVweb at AirVenture 2023 about the FAA validated type certificate for the CD-300 engine, testing hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) on the CD-100 and some of the company’s sustainability initiatives.

If you haven’t shopped the aircraft battery market in a while, you’ll be overwhelmed by new tech, including lithium-ion options. True Blue Power—a division of Mid-Continent Instruments and Avionics—was showing off its new lithium-ion batteries (including a 12-volt option) at AirVenture 2023. Aviation Consumer Editor Larry Anglisano stopped by the True Blue Power booth for […]

Kitfox Aircraft showed not one but two Experimentals powered by the new 160-hp Rotax 916 at AirVenture 2023. We caught up with Kitfox’s Brandon Petersen, whose own Kitfox has pride of place at the corner of the company booth. Builder of the “no-compromises” airplane, he describes the performance and capability of Kitfox’s newest model. For more information: www.kitfoxaircraft.com […]

Pratt & Whitney Canada announced this week at AirVenture 2023 that it has now delivered over 400 PT6 E-Series engines. Since its launch in October 2019, the engine family has logged more than 100,000 flight hours worldwide. The latest in the company’s extensive line of PT6 engines, the E-Series powers the Pilatus PC-12 NGX and […]

Earlier this week, thousands of aircraft flew in to Wittman Regional Airport (OSH) in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, for AirVenture 2023. Mariano Rosales was onsite to check out some of the arrivals.