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When it got nearly impossible for Kevin Butler to face another day sweating it out in the kitchen, the 41-year-old cook knew it was past time for a change. The Los Angeles resident’s father was an aeronautical engineer so he grew up around airplanes and had always wanted to be a pilot so he squared […]

The uAvionix booths at this year’s Airventure were packed layers deep with last-minute ADS-B buyers, while the 2020 mandate is T-minus 28 weeks. But high on the list of ADS-B equipage concerns is the developing ADS-B space-based Aireon tech in Canada (and the U.S. aircraft that will fly there), which looks to require diversity systems, […]

There’s still a need for two important devices in a radio stack: a VHF comm radio and an audio control panel. PS Engineering’s new PAR200B handles both, but focuses on saving space with a remote-mount VHF radio that’s channeled and displayed directly on the audio panel. Shown at AirVenture this week, the PAR200B has a […]

President and CEO of Women in Aviation International (WAI) Dr. Peggy Chabrian announced at AirVenture 2019 that she will be retiring from the position as of April 2020. Chabrian has served as president of WAI since its formal establishment as a non-profit organization in 1994. She also launched the annual WAI conferences, the first of […]

A Cessna 172 will be the centerpiece of the National Air and Space Museum’s  refurbished “How Things Fly” exhibit at its main facility in downtown Washington, D.C. Textron donated $10 million to the museum and the exhibit will officially be known as the “Textron How Things Fly Gallery.” It’s located in the east end of […]

Boeing signed an agreement with Tecnam at AirVenture 2019 to be the sole provider of aftermarket spare parts and distribution services for the Tecnam P2012 Traveller. The announcement comes as the first Traveller deliveries are getting underway, with Cape Air, the U.S launch customer for the P2012, officially accepting its first two P2012s last week. […]

It’s one thing to make a 700-plus mile journey to the big show at Oshkosh in an ultralight, but when a single-seat Aerolite 103 flown by a 14-year-old makes the trip it’s impressive. That’s just what Henry Scott did this year at AirVenture and AVweb’s Ashley Anglisano caught up with him and his father to […]

Among the rarest of the rare restored aircraft is Tom Reilly’s XP82 Twin Mustang. It debuted at AirVenture 2019 and was a crowd favorite. In this AVweb news video, Reilly tells what was involved in the restoration and it’s a pretty incredible story.

A pilot for the French air force’s Patrouille de France demo team is safe after his aircraft went down near Perpignan-Rivesaltes Airport in the south of France on Thursday. The aircraft was one of nine flying a practice routine ahead of an airshow at the airport when something went wrong with the No. 2 Alphajet. […]

Seven years ago, AirVenture was occasionally stormy and the crowds seemed less dense than some years. Then-Acting FAA Administrator Michael Huerta took questions from the audience at his first open forum at AirVenture (his nomination for the top job at the FAA was just coming up before the Senate). EAA launched Eagle Flights, a spinoff […]