Air Shows & Events

Cessna is showing off a bright purple mockup of its SkyCatcher LSA front and center at its exhibit, and the company reiterated this week that it intends to continue with the program despite the crashes of two test aircraft during spin testing. In the coming weeks, Cessna said, it will gather additional wind tunnel data, […]

The clouds have parted, the threat of rain seems to be past and the forecast for the rest of the week is for blue skies and sunshine here in Lakeland, Fla. The show site is busy, with the usual mix of turboprops and sport planes, jets and ultralights, kit aircraft, and long lines of homebuilts […]

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The air show season “officially” starts on April 21 as Sun ‘n Fun kicks off in Lakeland, Fla. for five days of showcasing the best in general aviation. If you’re a company with something new to introduce at the show, we’d like to hear from you. We’ll gladly accept your news releases in advance, on […]

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Original, Exclusive Videos from AVweb |Reader-Submitted & Viral Videos In case you missed any of our videos from the 2008 NBAA Convention & Trade Show in Orlando, Florida, you can watch all eight of them (plus two shorts you may find interesting) right here. Just use the arrows at the right and left sides of […]

Attendance at the National Business Aviation Association’s 61st convention in Orlando this week was down marginally according to early attendance figures released Wednesday. NBAA spokesman Dan Hubbard said 30,164 people attended the show, down about 600 from last year. “It’s 2 percent,” NBAA President Ed Bolen told AVweb. “This was a solid show.” There was […]

While the crowds at this week’s NBAA Convention in Orlando, Fla., are busy out on the convention floor and on the flight line checking out all the latest and greatest technology, a lot is also going on in the meeting rooms, as movers and shakers get together to discuss issues of importance to the industry. […]

NBAA is one of the shows where major sales announcements are made, but there haven’t been that many at this year’s show. Hawker Beechcraft stepped out of that mold today with a $200 million announcement. Brazilian-based Lder Signatures S.A. has ordered 23 aircraft, covering the cross-section of jet products from the Wichita company. The major […]

In its element (and that’s pretty varied) there is no more highly-respected aircraft than the deHavilland DHC-6 Twin Otter. Made famous by the Antarctic rescue of a sick scientist in -75 temperatures, the high-wing twin has toiled for almost 40 years in some of the harshest (and most idyllic) environments on Earth. But the fleet […]