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Diamond’s actual D-Jet will be coming to Oshkosh this week, but people are already checking out the mockup. The D-Jet interior isn’t much bigger than most single-engine piston airplanes, but the view from the front is quite different. The mock-up has the full, three-screen G1000 with two audio panels, FMS-style keypad, and autopilot controls under […]

While the TwinStar was Diamond’s big draw at last year’s show, the star attraction this year will be the appearance of the D-Jet, the single-engine personal jet that may find work in the air taxi business. Although details haven’t been released, Diamond and Point2Point Airways, a North Dakota-based air taxi company, will be holding a […]

Aviation news tends to be made in the press area, a long way from the tie-down area at the west end of Wittman Regional Airport, but a couple of German pilots may have quietly made history when they touched down in a DA42 TwinStar (serial number 16) on Friday. Aircraft owner Wolfgang Daiser and his […]

While the GPSMAP 496 we reported on Thursday was already old news by the conference, seeing it in action was cool. The new SafeTaxi system places the symbolic aircraft on high-resolution airport diagrams for over 600 airports. Smart Airspace automatically highlights airspace when the pilot might fly through it and automatically deemphasizes it when the […]

The bigger announcement was that Garmin is going after the retrofit market in three ways. The full G1000 system will be made available on select aircraft, one at a time, with the first instance being late-model King Air C-90s. No firm price is set but the estimate is $350,000. If you wish you could put […]

Garmin couldn’t keep the cat in the bag about its new GPSMAP 496, but it still had a few surprises up its sleeve for its Sunday afternoon press conference. The WAAS-capable GNS 430W and GNS 530W (W for WAAS, get it?) will be available this fall for $10,750 and $16,495 respectively. Garmin is sticking with […]

Of course, not every airplane company has the budget to claim half an acre of prime real estate (this week) at Oshkosh, but that doesn’t mean they don’t stand out. For instance, a patch of grass between two exhibit hangars, can be seen from all over the grounds for the bright yellow copy Cub hoisted […]

True or rumor (we’ll know soon) — scuttlebutt around the Honda display yesterday imagined that the decision has been made to go into production with the HondaJet at a price in the current (rather broad) VLJ range — now that the show’s begun we’ll soon see if that’s fantasy or reality. For now, local lore […]

If size means anything, manufacturers displaying their wares at EAA AirVenture are exploiting its full potential. Many of the displays are noticeably larger, grander and more spectacle-oriented (which may just be an indication that, in the absence of anything really new, they’ve had time to hype up the hype). Of anticipated news, it’s expected that […]

Try as it might, Garmin couldnt keep the cat in the bag. The company had hoped to embargo news of its new GPSMAP 496 until EAA AirVenture. But as it always seems to, the news leaked out into cyberspace and Garmin threw in the towel on Wednesday, with a press release on its Web site. […]