Sun ‘N Fun

The FAA on Monday released additional tapes of the conversations between air traffic controllers and Doug White, the low-time private pilot who successfully landed a twin-engine King Air in Florida last week after the pilot died at the controls. The new tape documents the first 14 minutes of radio calls, starting with White’s first transmission, […]

Cessna is showing off a bright purple mockup of its SkyCatcher LSA front and center at its exhibit, and the company reiterated this week that it intends to continue with the program despite the crashes of two test aircraft during spin testing. In the coming weeks, Cessna said, it will gather additional wind tunnel data, […]

The clouds have parted, the threat of rain seems to be past and the forecast for the rest of the week is for blue skies and sunshine here in Lakeland, Fla. The show site is busy, with the usual mix of turboprops and sport planes, jets and ultralights, kit aircraft, and long lines of homebuilts […]

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The air show season “officially” starts on April 21 as Sun ‘n Fun kicks off in Lakeland, Fla. for five days of showcasing the best in general aviation. If you’re a company with something new to introduce at the show, we’d like to hear from you. We’ll gladly accept your news releases in advance, on […]

AVweb‘s Liz Moscrop is enjoying the sights and sounds of Farnborough this week, and she’s been kind enough to share a few photos from her trip. CLICK FOR LARGE IMAGES EACH IMAGE WILL OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW

Warner Aerocraft is offering a unique concept in Light Sport Aircraft design with a three-way convertible cockpit. The Sportster can be flown single or tandem with or without a canopy. The company says it only takes five minutes to reconfigure the plane. It’s powered by a Continental 0200 and has a top speed of 130 […]

Antilles Seaplanes made its first appearance at Sun ‘n Fun 2008 and the company says it hopes to be delivering newly-manufactured modern versions of the venerable Grumman Goose in the next year or two. The company has the type certificate for the aircraft and has been developing the manufacturing processes at its plant in Gibsonville, […]

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 […]