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If you’re about to buy a legacy LSA – a Cub, Champ, or Luscombe, say – will you be able to support a 60-year-old airplane with spare parts? Actually – yes, according to Aurora, Colorado-based Univair, one of the leading suppliers of parts and accessories for classic aircraft. As part of a major report in […]

Some of the biggest news in U.S. aviaition has come out of China in the last couple of weeks. A week after Cessna announced it was building its 162 SkyCatcher there, Liberty Aerospace announced a deal to build 600 copies of its XL-2 two-place touring and training aircraft in a plant to be built by […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive Before you ask: Yes, we have been watching a lot of radio-controlled airplane videos lately. When you see the one we’ve selected as the “Video of the Week,” we think you’ll agree that it’s paying off. Courtesy of YouTube user cavemodels, we give you what may be the world’s first […]

In a recent AVweb story, we learned that the Coalition for an Airline Passengers’ Bill of Rights (CAPBOR) is encouraging airline passengers to keep their video and still cameras handy on board to document any horror stories that may occur during the upcoming busy holiday travel period. In this interview with Kate Hanni, the group’s […]

After 150,000 takeoffs and landings in a 43-year cropdusting career, Don Taylor of Emmett, Idaho – who was the subject of a recent story in The Idaho Statesman newspaper – shares the secret of his longevity in the nations third-most-dangerous occupation. Mike Blakeney talks with Don and his wife Charlene to get her perspective about […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive It’s autumn at AVweb world headquarters, and we’re already opining the passage of air show season. We’ve shared lots of great air show clips in the last few weeks, but today we’ll shift our scale back just a bit and marvel at the radio-controlled aerobatics of a B-29 bomber at […]

Build A Plane has opened a new eBay Store for aviation just in time for your Christmas shopping. AVweb‘s Mike Blakeney talks with Executive Director Katrina Bradshaw about the new eBay site and gets an update on some of Build A Plane’s recent success stories. Duration: File Size: download here

In last Monday’s AVwebAudio podcast, we spoke with aviation analyst Richard Aboulafia, whose consistent message has been that very light jets and the air taxi business they are helping to spawn will not be the market explosion that some are claiming. Well, as you might expect, there are differing opinions on that topic, and Joe […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive Last week, we showed you an A310 from FlyboyTV and promised more big-iron videos in the weeks to come – and since we mislabelled the A310 as an A380 on the home page, this might be a good opportunity to show you a real A380 doing some interesting testing. In […]

AVweb‘s Mike Blakeney speaks with Cessna CEO Jack Pelton hours after returning from a trip to Bend, Oregon, where Pelton announced to former Columbia Aircraft employees and the local media that Cessna will be taking over the facility that manufactures the popular Columbia 350 and 400 in the next few weeks. Pelton also responds to […]