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With Cirrus reaching 10,000 aircraft delivered, that means there are plenty of aging SR20 and SR22 models in need of refurbishment, including modern avionics upgrades. One well-regarded avionics shop—Nexair Avionics in Plymouth, Massachusetts—has been specializing in avionics retrofits for Cirrus models for years and this year it brought one to AirVenture. It’s a 2007 SR22T […]

Always on the prowl for interesting machines at AirVenture, AVweb contributor Larry Anglisano spotted Volar’s Lightning—a two-thirds scale TTP-38 Lightning meticulously built by the late Jim O’Hara. A one-of-a-kind work of art, William Pressler (O’Hara’s nephew) offered a look at the aircraft parked in the homebuilts area by AirVenture’s Brown Arch.

Photos by Mariano Rosales

AirVenture is a great place to shop for hangar tugs because you can usually get a good hands-on demo. That’s important because not all electric tugs have the same feature set, but you really don’t know how the tug will perform until you try it on your airplane in its intended environment. In the electric […]

Photos by Mariano Rosales

Remember when flying was for fun? The organizers of Flite Fest haven’t forgotten and the contraptions enabled and created at the annual electric aircraft event show ingenuity and occasional brilliance.

The sound of freedom will be shattering eardrums across North America for the next few months, but Norway gets a different kind of act from its air force. The Royal Norwegian Air Force’s display team, the Yellow Sparrows, performed in the strong and gusty wind at Sola Airshow 2024. The six SAAB Safari MFI-17 aircraft […]