Air Shows & Events

Cessna 350 and Cessna 400 models made their air show debut at Sun ‘n Fun last week and company officials say there’s been overwhelming response to the aircraft. Cessna was the winning bidder at a bankruptcy auction for the former Columbia Aircraft late last year and began building the speedy composite singles in Cessna colors […]

When Cirrus unveiled the G3 SR22 at last year’s Sun ‘n Fun, the reaction was positive and the response from customers was favorable. Lessons learned from the improvements of the flagship model were applied to the entry-level SR20 and it made its show debut at this year’s Sun ‘n Fun. Probably the biggest change (and […]

Modern technology has come to the rescue of a persistent problem, which, had it been addressed in its time, might have made Molt Taylor’s Aerocar more appealing in its day. The aircraft flew to Sun ‘n Fun (it’s the only flying example of five left) from its home away from home at a museum in […]

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The WAM diesel-powered IndUs Thorpedo LSA arrived on schedule to a packed news conference at Sun ‘n Fun on Saturday and there was a cluster of people around it most of the day. With the numbers IndUS is reporting, it’s no wonder. The supercharged and turbocharged three-cylinder, two-cycle inverted cylinder diesel puts out 120 hp. […]

In an industry built on superlatives there can only be one fastest, and Mooney’s recently certified Type S model now holds the crown as the fastest production single. It’ll do 242 knots at 25,000 feet and it doesn’t use extra power to get to those lofty numbers. “There have been a lot of subtle enhancements,” […]

For the sport flyer who enjoys local fun flights and $100 hamburgers, Electraflyer’s new battery-powered airplane may be just right — and with no fuel to burn, it can cut the cost of that hamburger down to about 60 cents. That’s how much it costs to fully charge the lithium-polymer battery pack, says Randall Fishman, […]

Legendary pilot Dick Rutan stars in the first volume of the Aviator Series training videos, a new project by Fly Right Films. “Dick tells such great stories, and we use those as a starting point to teach the viewer about safe flying techniques,” producer Chris Jules told AVweb at Sun ‘n Fun on Saturday. In […]

Carol Ann Garratt has flown around the world in a Mooney before — taking her time, on a seven-month trip that she wrote about in a book, “Upon Silver Wings.” This time, she is taking a co-pilot and aiming to break the round-the-world record for single-engine aircraft, by making the flight start-to-finish in just seven […]