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At AirVenture this week, Textron Aviation proved that the Cessna Denali single-engine turboprop is getting closer to flight testing, displaying a full-scale mockup of the entire passenger cabin and cockpit. The mockup, which had a fully assembled executive interior with aft seats removed to accommodate a motorcycle, also had Garmin’s G3000 integrated avionics. Initially introduced […]

Two new courses for drone pilots and several for aircraft mechanics are joining the lineup of online aviation training resources at King Schools. John and Martha King announced at AirVenture 2018 that they will be offering recurrent drone training and Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) courses beginning this August. The LAANC course will […]

Aviation enthusiasts who aren’t in Oshkosh this week — or who may be passing through Colorado on their way home — have a new destination to visit, with the official opening of the Exploration of Flight campus on the south side of Centennial Airport. The 19,000-square-foot Boeing Blue Sky Aviation Gallery, a project of the […]

Construction on the hangar that will become B-29 Doc’s permanent home is on time and under budget, director of Doc’s Friends Josh Wells announced at AirVenture 2018 on Thursday. Doc is one of only two B-29s still flying. The B-29 Doc Hangar and Education Center, located in Wichita, Kansas, is expected to be completed this […]

The FAA has “exclusive authority” over the nation’s airspace and air traffic control, the agency asserted last week, responding to efforts by cities and towns to regulate drone use. “State and local governments are not permitted to regulate any type of aircraft operations, such as flight paths or altitudes, or the navigable airspace,” the FAA […]

An inexperienced pilot flying on a dark night probably thought the Cessna 525’s autopilot was engaged, but it wasn’t, the NTSB has concluded in its final report on last year’s fatal crash in Lake Erie. The pilot had logged a total of 56.5 hours in Cessna 525 jets, with 8.7 hours as pilot in command, […]

On Wednesday, the European Aviation Safety Agency published new safety rules that aim to better support the mental fitness of air crew. The new rules mandate that all pilots working for European airlines will have access to support programs to help them recognize, cope with and overcome problems that might degrade their ability to safely […]

A former pilot for Alaska Airlines was sentenced on Wednesday to a year and a day in federal prison, for flying two flights in 2014 with a blood alcohol level more than three times the legal limit. David Arntson, 63, pleaded guilty in February to one felony count of operating a common carrier while under […]

In 2013, Jack Pelton first took the helm at AirVenture, marking the first time the show was not led by a member of the founding Poberezny family. He acted as chairman of the board from 2012 until 2015, when he was officially named CEO. Terrafugia flew its Transition flying car in public for the first […]

After years snagged in the certification process, the BendixKing AeroVue retrofit flight deck has been approved for installation in B200 King Air models. At AirVenture 2018 at Oshkosh, the company had the AeroVue system on display in its pavilion and also brought its B200 test bed for media flights (look for a video soon on […]