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The accident rate in Light Sport Aircraft is “horrid” but it’s getting better according to an insurance industry executive. Mike Adams, vice president of underwriting for Avemco Insurance told AVweb in a podcast interview that experienced pilots continue to underestimate the challenges of putting lightweight, draggy and low-powered airplanes on the pavement and the majority […]

Among the dozens of light sport aircraft that will be on exhibit this week at the annual Sebring U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Florida will be the Roko Aero NG IV, making its U.S. debut. The airplane, designed by Milan Bristela, who also designed the CZAW SportCruiser, has been purpose-built to be “the ultimate training […]

Last week, the NTSB released its probable-cause reports on four of the nine helicopter emergency-medical-services flights involving 35 fatalities that occurred since Dec. 2007, an event that quickly became somewhat overshadowed, as an A320 ditched in the Hudson River that very same day. The safety board said that flying at night in bad weather was […]

The NTSB on Wednesday afternoon released new factual information in connection with its continuing investigation of US Airways Flight 1549, the Airbus 320 that ditched into the Hudson River in New York on Jan. 15. Factual updates from the board are generally considered preliminary information and no conclusions are drawn from the findings. The right […]

Along with about 2 million other people who spent Wednesday in Washington, D.C., Captain Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who just last week deftly steered a crippled Airbus to a safe landing in New York’s Hudson River, made his way to the Capitol for Inauguration Day. Capt. Sullenberger and his family were there at the invitation […]

If you’re looking for a home with your own runway, this house for sale in the Normandy region of France has it — plus 100 acres of land, nine buildings, a six-hole golf course, stables for 20 horses, and more. And as an added attraction, the grass runway itself, nicely mowed and over 3,000 feet […]

Many AVwebreaders first heard about the possibilities of online search-and-rescue techniques when Steve Fossett vanished over a year ago, and thousands pitched in to scrutinize aerial imagery in search of clues. Some of the folks who helped coordinate that effort formed InternetSAR, a nonprofit group working to develop online search-and-rescue techniques, and currently they need […]

The latest type group to form is perhaps a sign of the times in business aviation. Citation Jet Pilots was formed last November for owner-pilots of Cessna Citation jets. Membership is climbing (CJ3 owner and AOPA President Craig Fuller just joined) and the organization is planning its first gathering at the Light Business Airplane Conference […]

AVweb has teamed up with one of Europe’s most important general and business aviation shows. AVweb is partnering with Eur-Avia Cannes 2009 at the International Airport of Cannes Mandelieu from April 30 to May 2.”Eur-Avia Cannes exhibition brings together the leading protagonists in general and business aviation in order to offer the possibility to a […]

A Delaware bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of the assets of Eclipse Aviation to EclipseJet Aviation International, a subsidiary of ETIRC Aviation, which is owned by current Eclipse CEO Roel Pieper and is the largest single investor in Eclipse. Judge Mary Walrath, of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, made her decision Tuesday after hearing two […]