Sun ‘N Fun

Tuesday was the first day the show was officially open to the public, and we sent staff photographer Mariano Rosales off to check our the Sport Plane area. CLICK FOR LARGER INDIVIDUAL IMAGES EACH IMAGE WILL OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW

Cirrus said this week that it has suspended for now its work on bringing an LSA to market. “Our interest in the project hasn’t changed,” Patrick Waddick, Cirrus vp of operations, told AVweb on Wednesday. “We are still very interested in the LSA market, and we will keep coming back to re-evaluate that decision.” The […]

From now on kids who take a Young Eagles flight will leave the airport with more than a cherished memory. Sporty’s Pilot Shop has teamed up with EAA to ensure that all of the approximately 100,000 youth who take a Young Eagles flight with an EAA volunteer pilot get a logbook and access to Sporty’s […]

Rick Schrameck, CEO of Epic Aircraft, launched back-to-back news conferences this week — one on Tuesday and another on Wednesday — to show off a handful of new designs available to the experimental market. On Tuesday, he unveiled a scale model of a twin-engine turboprop named Elegance that he called a “next-generation King Air,” which […]

Ah, Sun ‘n Fun! Despite the name, it seems – at least for the past few years – that this show always starts off with storm clouds and just a hint of rain. Not that the weather dampens our spirits! AVweb‘s Mary Grady wandered the grounds as the show was preparing to open and brought […]

The real estate market is tough everywhere but while airpark sales are feeling the crunch, lots are still selling in projects like Big South Fork Airpark in Tennessee. In a podcast interview with AVweb, Bill Armstrong, one of the partners in the project, says sales have dropped but the developers are convinced that luxury “second […]

This week’s Sun ‘n Fun show overlaps Earth Day, and the fact has not been lost on the aviation community. Tuesday night, the Lindbergh Foundation debuted a new documentary film by Miles O’Brien, formerly of CNN, who accompanied Patty Wagstaff to Kenya to report on her work training pilots for the Kenya Wildlife Service. On […]

Brian Cable, from the FAA’s AIR-240 office, reported on Tuesday at Sun ‘n Fun that the agency has completed initial interviews of 30 Light Sport Aircraft manufacturers and importers for the audit program that began last September. While the agency is still crunching the numbers, Cable reported that it found “good” levels of compliance with […]

Nothing to see here, move along. At noon on Tuesday at Sun ‘n Fun, FAA’s Don Lausman provided an update on the agency’s progress overhauling the so-called “51% Rule.” However, Lausman said, “The talk I intended to give and the one I’m about to give are two different things.” Since the FAA is about to […]

It was known to be imminent, and we already have heard all the details about the new Cirrus TKS system for flight into known icing (FIKI), but on Tuesday at Sun ‘n Fun the Cirrus folks made it official — the FAA has issued final approval for the design, which is available on the SR22 […]