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Quicksilver Aircraft, which has sold more than 15,000 ultralight aircraft around the world, will close its California factory and is working to reorganize the business, according to a report at ByDanJohnson.com. After a couple of years of increasing sales, the company saw a dip in 2015. “Tremendous efforts were placed in order to reduce costs […]

Ken Hyde, whose painstaking reproductions of early Wright aircraft are known for their historical accuracy and attention to detail, has put seven of his custom-built aircraft on the market, representing a variety of models that originally flew from 1902 to 1911. “I hope to keep them together,” he told AVweb this week, but will sell […]

Every year, the Lightspeed Aviation Foundation chooses five aviation charities to support based on the results of online voting, providing grants of $2,000 to $10,000. This year’s top vote winners were Pilots N Paws, the Ninety-Nines, and Civil Air Patrol. Grants also went to NTM (New Tribes Mission) Aviation, to help them buy a new […]

A task force comprising 25 to 30 representatives from industry and government will be formed to develop a registration process for drones, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta announced today in Washington. The group will advise the department regarding which drones would be exempt from registration due to a low safety […]

The one-of-a-kind Bugatti 100p is back in the air for the second time, after the first flight, in August, ended in an off-runway excursion anddamage to the props and spinner. The airplane, equipped with two new custom-built propellers, took off Saturday at the Clinton-Sherman Airport in Clinton, Oklahoma, flew the pattern, and returned for a […]

Britain’s Paul Bonhomme won his third Red Bull Air Race championship with a second-place finish at the final race of the season at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Sunday. The championship is decided by the accumulation of points over the season and Australia’s Matt Hall, who won the Vegas race, ended up second overall. Austria’s […]

About six months ago we brought you a long-distance video of a “hoverboard” being flown over a remote Canadian lake and there were plenty of skeptics. Last week, inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru invited Canada’s public broadcaster, the CBC, along for a flight demo that should mute, if not silence, those skeptics. Duru appeared to be […]

The legal profession is keeping an eye on a case in Pennsylvania that might limit litigation in aviation product liability cases. The Third Circuit Court is expected to issue a ruling in the case of Sikkelee v. Precision Airmotive, in which the wife of the pilot who died in a plane crash alleges that fuel […]

The U.S. Department of Transportation will soon require registration of all drones, including hobby models, according to various reports. The ruling is expected to come down Oct. 19 and will cover every type of unmanned aerial system. The DOT issued advance notice to major media outlets by saying it will “make an important safety announcement […]

Tecnam will build three of its models in China for the growing training and travel markets there, the Italian company announced early Saturday. Under an agreement with Liaoning United Aviation, Shenyang Aircraft Co., manufacturing will start with the twin-engine Tecnam P2006T, which has been certified by China’s Civil Aviation Authority. Other models to follow are […]