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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 […]

Undertaking the development of a light jet is a project “not for the faint of heart,” Cirrus CEO Brent Wouters said at AOPA’s Aviation Summit on Thursday, but he assured the press who had gathered for his update that Cirrus is up to the task. “We are making progress,” he said. The team working on […]

Avidyne Corp. announced a new EX600 Multi-Function Display for GA airplanes and helicopters, at AOPA Aviation Summit in Tampa on Thursday. The new model features a larger display and the addition of Map Planning, a highly-requested feature, according to Avidyne, which makes it more user-friendly. The MFD can be used in aircraft that have never […]

AOPA launches its new version of the former AOPA Expo in Tampa this week, and despite the stubbornly down economy, organizers expect a full exhibit hall and attendance close to what it was for the last Tampa event, four years ago. “The AOPA Aviation Summit will still have the wide variety of exhibitors and aircraft […]