Air Shows & Events

With the annual Oshkosh AirVenture fly-in around the corner, the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) is highlighting some changes to the show-related Notice to Airmen (NOTAM). The 2021 AirVenture NOTAM includes new ATC-assignable transition points approaching Wittman Regional Airport (KOSH) from the west along with noting that VORs FAH and IKK have been decommissioned. In addition, […]

The Flight School Association of North America (FSANA) has announced that it will host a Designated Pilot Examiners Symposium for the flight examiner community. The organization plans to hold the event annually with the first symposium scheduled to take place Oct. 27, 2021, in Nashville, Tennessee. Pre-event activities, including a session for people aiming to […]

A TBM Avenger from the Valiant Air Command performing at the Cocoa Beach Air Show in Florida put on a show for some people on the beach on Saturday when the pilot set it down in the surf for a textbook ditching. Audio in the accompanying video features the staccato notes of a dying radial […]

King Schools introduced a new free video course on aircraft marshalling at the annual Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo on Friday. The online course, titled Understanding Aircraft Marshalling, covers topics including marshalling signals used on arrival, shutdown, startup and departure along with specialty and seldom-used signals. In addition, it goes over what signals to give […]

The students of the Lakeland Aero Club are building a Patriot Aircraft PA-18R Recruit Cub this week at the Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo at Florida’s Lakeland Linder International Airport (KLAL). The club, whose members are between the ages of 14 and 24, is hoping to complete the fuselage, wings and 118-HP O-200 powerplant by […]

Aerospace Center for Excellence and Sun ‘n Fun President John “Lites” Leenhouts officially opened the organization’s new mobile airshow command center on Tuesday. The three-story modular facility can simultaneously serve as a control tower, airshow announcers’ box and air-ground safety center. Sun ‘n Fun also plans to rent out the building, which was constructed from […]

Aviation Safety Resources (ASR) has reached an agreement to acquire parachute company Strong Enterprises, ASR announced at the Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo on Tuesday. Strong, which designs, engineers, tests and manufactures parachute systems, has customers in the general aviation and military segments. The acquisition is effective immediately. “The acquisition of Strong Enterprises adds a […]

Larry Anglisano caught up with Dynon’s Michael Schofield on the company’s plans for both in-person and virtual booth displays around Sun ‘n Fun 2021.

At Sun ‘n Fun 2021 in Lakeland, Florida, Garmin isn’t announcing major new products, but it has plenty of enhancements to its existing line of top-selling aftermarket avionics. In this video, Garmin’s Pat Coleman gave Aviation Consumer an exclusive kiosk tour.

Following last year’s cancellation due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the annual Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo opened its doors to high ticket sales and sizable crowds on Tuesday. According to Sun ‘n Fun and Aerospace Center for Excellence (ACE) president John “Lites” Leenhouts, event ticket sales had reached around $1.2 million by Tuesday morning, […]