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This year at Sun ‘n Fun, Textron Aviation introduced several upgrades for its Cessna piston aircraft along with the Beechcraft Baron and Beechcraft Bonanza. Also on display was a cabin mock-up of the new Beechcraft Denali single-engine turboprop. Textron Aviation vice president for piston sales Christopher Crow gives AVweb an overview of both programs in […]

The avionics portion of a homebuilt aircraft project can be both time-consuming and intimidating to some builders, but Dynon has set out to tame that dragon with new prefabricated hardware. The FastTrack hardware—which is also available for the HDX Certified version—takes part of the guesswork out of the critical process of determining where to mount […]

At Sun ‘n Fun 2022, an Australian company called TurbAero was showing off a mock-up of a new, light turboprop engine it proposes to fit into airplanes requiring about 200 HP. Turboprops aren’t known for fuel efficiency, of course, but the company is using recuperative heating to deliver fuel specifics somewhere between a piston engine […]

Flight Design USA brought the first certified production F2 LSA to Sun ‘n Fun 2022, and in this show video Aviation Consumer Editor Larry Anglisano caught up with Tom Peghini for a look at the improvements in the airplane since Larry flew the prototype last year.

Space-based ADS-B compliance is back on the table for Canadian airspace, and (just in time for Sun ‘n Fun this year) uAvionix earned STC and TSO approval for its tailBeaconX Diversity ADS-B external transponder. Aviation Consumer’s Editor Larry Anglisano stopped by the uAvionix booth at the show and caught up with Shane Woodson for a […]

The Piper Navajo is a workhorse in the world of piston twins, and Mike Jones Aircraft in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, has a rather thorough refurb program called the Lock & Key Navajo. Aviation Consumer’s Larry Anglisano took a close look at one of the latest Lock & Key refurbs at Sun ‘n Fun 2022 in Lakeland, […]

Sun ‘n Fun 2022 opens up on Tuesday, April 5. In this pre-show opener, AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli takes a look at what’s going on during the show and scopes out the week’s news coverage.

Almost overnight, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the sanctions it ignited have upended international aviation. Russia is bearing the brunt of the chaos and it may only get worse. In this in-depth exploration of the issues, Wendover Productions, well known for its explainers of everything from industrial logistics to the utility industry, shows how an […]