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Growth Looks Good For Next 10 Years Next year, over 800 business jets are expected to ship, a new record, according to a report by Honeywell that was released on Tuesday. “The industry is in great shape right now,” Charles Park, Honeywell Aerospace’s director of market analysis, told The Wichita Eagle. By 2013, bizjet deliveries […]

“Accessibility” was a common theme in the sessions but it meant different things to different sectors. For Raburn and Eclipse, it’s about what he views as the necessary conversion of general aviation to turbine engines. “The military did it in the 50s, the airlines did it in the 60s and business aviation did it in […]

Klapmeier, Raburn And Johnson Speak What do those building piston singles, very light jets (VLJs) and light sport aircraft (LSA) have in common? Everything … and nothing … and that’s why it’s so important they pull in the same direction. During a general session at AOPA Expo (followed by a news conference) in Tampa on […]

Cirrus Design CEO Alan Klapmeier spoke a little about the personal jet his company intends to build. Although coy about timelines, design and price, Klapmeier left little doubt that the jet, if not a physical reality yet, is a conceptual given and it’s also clear that he can’t wait. “It’s going to be so cool,” […]

Light Jets Abound Diamond hopes to fly its D-Jet to EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh next summer for its North American debut, according to a company representative we spoke with over the weekend at AOPA’s convention in Tampa. Actually the folks around London, Ontario, will likely be the first to see it in flight as Diamond […]

Far from resting on its laurels in rallying pilots to protest the permanence of the ADIZ, AOPA has actually ramped up its efforts to get even more pilots involved. There are now more than 18,000 comments posted on the NPRM and with another 90 days in which to gather input on docket # 17005, the […]

Although the immediate urgency lies with the ADIZ controversy, perhaps the most important (and jubilantly received) statement by Mineta was that he believes a fuel tax, and not user fees for GA, is the way to increase and stabilize revenue for the FAA. “I can tell you right now from my perspective [the solution] will […]

Secretary Soft, AOPA Vigilant AOPA President Phil Boyer says the organization cannot afford to let down its guard, despite the apparent progress on two key issues it’s been pouring much of its resources into in the last couple of years. “I ain’t letting any grass grow and stand in the way of our continuing work,” […]

Avidyne and Ryan International will today make a series of announcements including a merger agreement that translates to the coming addition of active traffic surveillance to Avidyne’s product lines. The merger will transform Ryan’s Ohio headquarters into Safety Systems Group, to be maintained by Avidyne. Paul Ryan, who invented the Stormscope weather system and collision […]

The probable cause, says the NTSB, was improper manufacturing of a crankshaft bolt that was supplied by Champion Bolt Corp. About two weeks after the crash, Lycoming issued a Service Bulletin to replace bolts on certain 540-series engines, and in October 2002, the FAA issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive to also replace the bolts. An […]