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Solar Impulse 2 departed Hawaii Thursday morning bound for Mountain View, California, with one of the team’s two pilots, Bertrand Piccard,at the controls of the single-seat aircraft. This leg is expected to last about two and a half days. The four-motor, single-seat airplane took a nine-month hiatus in Hawaii, where battery overheating issues from its […]

As Cirrus tends to the final details of its certification of the SF50 Vision Jet, the first production model is within days if not hours of its first flight, according to Pat Waddick, Cirrus president. Speaking at the Aero show in Friedrichshafen, Germany, Thursday, Waddick said four test aircraft have accumulated some 1700 hours and […]

The Hawker jet that crashed in Akron, Ohio, in November, killing all nine aboard, was not flying a stabilized approach, as indicated by the cockpit conversation just before the accident. The NTSB released its investigation records this week as the probe into the cause of the crash continues. The voice recorder indicates the copilot was […]

At Aero in Friedrichshafen, Germany, this week, Eclipse, under its One Aviation banner, was showing the first completely certified-for-Europe 550, a new-production aircraft that CEO Alan Klapmeier flew from the U.S. Before the show, Klapmeier told us about something we’re hearing more and more: Regulators in both Europe and the U.S. have become much more […]

Powered by a custom-mixed 50-50-blend of aviation biofuel and Jet A, schoolteacher Ross McCurdy, his 12-year-old son Aedan and a rotating crew of second pilots are spending school break flying across the U.S. east to west in a diesel-powered Cessna 182, to promote the potential of eco-friendly fuels. “We achieved a milestone for the flight […]

After years of patient waiting, Continental Motors announced Wednesday at Aero what many diesel owners have been hoping for: significantly longer replacement cycles for its four-cylinder diesel engines. The new longer TBRs (time between replacement) extend to 2100 hours for both the CD-135 and CD-155 Continental diesels. Moreover, according to Continental CEO Rhett Ross, the […]

With nearly five months of certification behind it and production ramping up, Honda announced at Aero Wednesday that is has delivered the first HA-420 HondaJet to Europe. Although the airplane has appeared previously at Aero in mockup form, this week’s announcement marked the first time the actual aircraft has appeared at Aero. The airplane will […]

Piper Aircraft announced several price rollbacks and a large trainer order from the University of North Dakota on the opening days of theAero exposition in Friedrichshafen, Germany, on Wednesday morning. Piper CEO Simon Caldecott told the press that some 100 aircraft have been ordered by UND, one of the largest single trainer orders during the […]

As the Aero shows opens today in Friedrichshafen, Germany, organizers are looking for a smaller show—down about 40 exhibitors—but a busy one. AVweb’s preview of the show schedule Tuesday revealed a full day of conferences and announcements, including new product information from Continental Motors, Daher, Jeppesen and Siemens. Aero’s Roland Bosch told AVweb Tuesday that […]

A 1997 Citation X owned by Donald Trump has been flying with an expired FAA registration since Jan. 31, according to a story in today’s New York Times. Flying with a lapsed registration — which costs $5 for three years — could be a problem in the case of an accident, and also can subject […]