Air Shows & Events

Pratt & Whitney Canada introduced its new PW545D turbofan engine this week at the 2023 European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, Switzerland. The latest addition to the company’s PW500 family, the PW545D was designed to offer improved specific fuel consumption (SFC), thrust and time between overhauls (TBO). It will power the Cessna […]

Bombardier has completed the first phase of testing on its EcoJet blended-wing-body aircraft research project. The company reported that it has seen positive results during the “design optimization loops and initial flight test campaign,” which used a small-scale model approximately 7 percent the size of a large business jet. The second phase of the EcoJet […]

Textron Aviation officially introduced the new Cessna Citation Ascend business jet on Monday ahead of the 2023 European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, Switzerland. The next in the Citation 560XL series, the Ascend adds new cockpit and cabin designs along with a number of performance improvements. The model is currently slated to […]

The FAA has published the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2023 Notice (formerly known as the AirVenture NOTAM) and is urging anyone flying to the big show to study it carefully. Changes for this year (other than the name change, which is an FAA internal thing) include: a change in the AirVenture ultralight pattern at Wittman Regional […]

Avionics guru Larry Anglisano was at the Aircraft Electronics Association show last week and caught up with DMC Tools for a demo of the LaceLok. It’s a combination of zip ties and conventional lacing methods in a prefabricated form. A trigger tool tightens and then snips the ends of special lacing bundles that use a […]

Thanks to advanced software and new lighting tech, the possibilities are endless for modernizing the cabin lighting in high-end cabins. One company on the cutting edge of cabin smart-lighting solutions is Illinois-based Prizm Aircraft Lighting. It can highly customize a lighting solution for a wide variety of cabins and various price points. Aviation Consumer Editor-in-Chief […]

Bell officially introduced its 407M special mission aircraft at the 2023 Army Aviation Association of America Mission Solutions Summit. A variant of the Bell 407 civil utility helicopter, the 407M is designed for military operations such as light attack, special operations, anti-piracy and armed reconnaissance. Bell noted that it is also planning to offer special […]

PlaneSync is Garmin’s new wireless system for remotely communicating with its onboard avionics. It utilizes the new GDL 60 LTE/Wi-Fi/Bluetooth unit and the Garmin Pilot app for loading nav databases, checking fuel and aircraft voltage, offloading engine data and viewing the aircraft’s location on the airfield. It was showing the system at the Aircraft Electronics […]

At the Aircraft Electronics Association’s International Convention and Trade Show in Florida, Avidyne was showing its dealer network several replacement options for aging avionics. This includes the IFD series slide-in navigators for existing Garmin GNS 430 and 530 systems, plus the Vantage flight displays, which replace vintage Entegra PFD and MFD systems. Aviation Consumer Editor-in-Chief […]

Continental announced at Aero 2023 that its CD series of jet-fuel burning piston engines has reached 10 million flight hours. In addition, the newest CD model, the CD-170, has received a time between replacement (TBR) extension from 1,200 to 1,800 hours. In this podcast, Oliver Leber, Continental vice president for global sales and applications engineering, […]