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Bye Energy says its electric-powered Cessna 172 will be much more than an airshow curiosity. In fact, the company told AVweb that it hopes to revolutionize the Part 23 training market with the aircraft. “Our clear focus is mainstream aviation,” company President George Bye said. “It’s ideal for training.” Bye said the aircraft will be […]

The AVweb staff have packed their bags and are on their way home from the first AOPA Summit in Tampa, Florida – and guess what editor Mary Grady found on her digital camera? If you said “a bunch of great photos that AVweb didn’t get a chance to share with us during the show,” you’d […]

“This is what every pilot is dreaming of, when they go to the airport to learn to fly,” said John McKenna, as he watched one slide after another of beautiful wilderness views scroll by on the wall of his group’s new display at AOPA Aviation Summit in Tampa this week. McKenna is one the pilots […]

Everyone can participate in this week’s AOPA Summit in Tampa via the Internet, with a slew of new online features being tried out for the first time. Folks with interests in common can meet up via AOPALive.org, or use the meet-up function to connect with live people at the show. David Allen, webmaster for mytransponder.com, […]

The SR-71 Blackbird was one of the most distinctive and powerful aircraft ever built, and one of the select group of pilots who flew it visited AOPA Summit in Tampa this week to tell the story of the airplane and its place in history. Brian Shul, a retired Air Force pilot, has written a book […]

Many aviation advocacy groups share a goal to work toward diversifying the pilot population, and in an effort to encourage more women to consider aviation careers, Women in Aviation International teamed up with AOPA this week to create a Women’s Wing for the Aviation Summit in Tampa. “We offered seminars and mini-forums about careers, about […]

When the filmmakers at Fox Searchlight needed a Lockheed Electra for their movie about Amelia Earhart, it took only a couple of phone calls to lead them to Joe Shepherd, a retired airline pilot with a beauty of an Electra gleaming in his custom-built hangar in Fayatteville, Ga. “There were 130 of these that were […]

The first owner of a Cessna Skycatcher won’t have far to turn if she has a complaint. Cessna announced at AOPA Summit that Rose Pelton, wife of Cessna CEO Jack Pelton will get the first 162. “When I first saw the Skycatcher mockup at Oshkosh in 2007, I knew that was the aircraft I wanted […]

The folks with the Lindbergh Foundation have been working for a few years now to provide support to the pilots of the Kenya Wildlife Service, who fly under extreme conditions in their effort to protect wild animals from poachers, and on Thursday at AOPA Summit, Foundation chairman Larry Williams announced the group will donate a […]

The LSA sector may still be young and wet behind the ears compared to the industry stalwarts, but on Thursday at AOPA Aviation Summit, AOPA got on board with the LSA movement, choosing an LSA as their annual Sweepstakes airplane for the first time ever. The shiny new Remos GX LSA is a carbon-fiber airplane […]