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The members of the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association will work with EAA to produce a new website where safety alerts — the LSA equivalent of airworthiness directives — will be posted to ensure that all owners, mechanics and pilots have timely access to the information, LAMA announced at EAA AirVenture on Wednesday. The site will […]

Icon Aircraft has announced that structural composite assemblies for the folding-wing amphib LSA will be provided by Liberty Aerospace of Melbourne, Fla., and Flytech, a Hungarian company. Icon plans to outsource the major composite work then assemble the airplanes and install all the systems at their facilities in southern California. The company also announced some […]

Despite the name, the Skycar is not trying to be a flying car — it’s an all-new twin-pusher GA utility aircraft now being manufactured by the Italian company Oma Sud. The multipurpose airplane can be equipped for executive use, medevac, or cargo, company President Valter Proietti said at EAA AirVenture on Tuesday. Oma Sud has […]

Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. FAA administrator Randy Babbitt appeared to contradict Tuesday’s statement by the EPA that it doesn’t have the authority to regulate or control the use of tetraethyl lead in avgas. In answering a question […]

FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt said at EAA AirVenture on Wednesday that the homebuilt community needs to do a better job of preventing accidents. “Last year, amateur-built aircraft accounted for 25 percent of all general aviation accidents,” he said. “But the troubling number here is that they represent only 10 percent of GA aircraft. We’re trying […]

On Tuesday morning, about 20 representatives of various public benefit flying groups met with representatives of the NTSB at EAA AirVenture to talk about how they plan to address the concerns expressed by the safety board in a letter issued last month. Rol Murrow, chairman of the Air Care Alliance, told AVweb the meeting was […]

It takes a couple of days to shake off the jetlag from all the packing and and checkpoints of getting to Oshkosh by commercial flights. Fortunately, Mariano Rosales knows just how to shake the dirt off his boots and get into the spirit of AirVenture – with a trip to check out the ultralights. CLICK […]

Adept Airmotive reports that its new V-6 aircraft engine took its maiden flight last week in South Africa in a Ravin 500 experimental aircraft. In a podcast earlier this year, Adept’s Richard Schulz gave us a detailed rundown on the engine, a sophisticated 120-degree V-6 design with electronic controls and exceptionally light weight. Although the […]

Click for larger version NASCAR team owner and veteran pilot and aircraft collector Jack Roush, 68, is in serious but stable condition after his Beechcraft Premier pancaked on the airport and slid across the grass at Wittman Regional Airport. His passenger Brenda Strickland, 61, was also taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. EAA is […]

The Environmental Protection Agency told GA’s Avgas Coalition that the agency “has not established or proposed any date by which lead emissions from aircraft operating on leaded avgas would need to be reduced. In fact, the EPA does not have authority to control aviation fuels.” The EPA’s statement came in a response to a request […]