Video of the Week

At AirVenture 2024, Champion Aerospace announced the Lightning Series Magneto for Continental and Lycoming four- and six-cylinder engines. Sy Pinkert and AVweb sat down with Thomas Justice and Alan Woods for a look.

Oshkosh during AirVenture isn’t just about the airshow itself, it’s an entire experience. Pilots show up, pitch a tent and rough it under the wing of their plane for a week in the North or South 40. Friendships are formed and the camaraderie can’t be matched.

At AirVenture 2024, Continental announced it plans to certify the CD-300 Jet-A-burning turbocharged piston engine for retrofit in existing select Cessna 206 Stationair models. Aviation Consumer magazine Editor Larry Anglisano spent some time at the Continental tent with James Foster for a walk-around tour of the engine.

Avidyne is at AirVenture a few steps closer to certification with the Vantage retrofit integrated avionics for Cirrus models. It’s intended as a modern and streamlined upgrade for Avidyne Entegra-equipped Cirrus models, sporting large touchscreen displays and tight integration with Avidyne’s DFC90 autopilot and IFD-series navigators. Aviation Consumer Editor Larry Anglisano spend some time at […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

Today is Canada Day and this year is also the 100th Anniversary of the Royal Canadian Air Force. To mark those occasions, the RCAF will fly 45 current and historic aircraft over the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa and the Snowbirds will be joined by the Italian Frecce Tricolori in an 18-plane formation demonstration. The rehearsal […]