Air Shows & Events

King Schools announced at the 2022 Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo that it is now offering a “concierge” service to assist flight schools with new training initiatives. The service is designed for flight schools developing FAA-approved Part 141 training programs and is available to the schools at no cost. According to the company, the King […]

More than 80 students attended the Legacy Flight Academy’s (LFA) Eyes Above the Horizon event at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Alabama, last month. The one-day outreach program was last held at Moton Field in 2019. LFA’s Eyes Above the Horizon, which is free to all participants, is aimed at developing and fostering youth interest in […]

Expanding its line of headset-friendly eyeglasses for aviators, Texas-based Flying Eyes came to Sun ‘n Fun 2022 with its new Ophthalmic series eyeglasses. Aviation Consumer Magazine Editor Larry Anglisano spent some time with founder Dean Siracusa at the Flying Eyes booth at the show for an overview.

Whelen Aerospace Technologies (WAT) introduced the newest addition to the Parmetheus product family at Sun ‘n Fun this year. In this video, WAT director of business development Matt Dondoneau talks to AVweb about the G3 PAR 36 and G3 PAR 46 landing lights.

An airplane-loving design student’s senior project gave rise to a family business dedicated to building scaled replica fighters “the right way.” ScaleBirds is a Groton, Connecticut-based company with plans to offer affordable kits for radial- and inline-engined mini-fighters—engineered as sport planes with a high “fun” quotient.

Airshow goers like gadgets, and this year at Sun ‘n Fun Garmin brought two new aviator smartwatches at two price points—the $550 D2 Air X10 and the $1300 flagship D2 Mach 1. For this video, Aviation Consumer Magazine Editor Larry Anglisano stopped by the Garmin booth and got an overview from Garmin’s Pat Coleman.

Daher and Pratt & Whitney Canada were excited to debut their joint project, Daher’s TBM 960 powered by Pratt & Whitney’s PT6E-66XT turboprop. AVweb spoke with Daher’s Nicolas Chabbert and Nick Kanellias at this year’s Sun ‘n Fun Expo.

Craig Barnett’s crazy idea two and a half decades ago has turned into a long-lasting aviation service. In 1997, when Barnett started offering professional design services to aircraft builders and owners, it was something of a novelty. Airframe manufacturers had their own design staffs, of course, but homebuilders were left to go it alone, or […]