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EAA is organizing a competition to help inspire the general aviation community to develop new ideas to reduce loss-of-control accidents, with a top prize of $25,000, Sean Elliott, EAA vice president for advocacy and safety, announced at AirVenture on Tuesday. “The Founder’s Innovation Prize represents the spirit of our founder, Paul Poberezny, a spirit of […]

Five people were taken to the hospital after the crash of a Piper Malibu landing at AirVenture Oshkosh early Wednesday. EAA spokesman Dick Knapinski said the aircraft was landing on Runway 27 when it crashed just before 8 a.m. There was smoke reported but firefighters were on the scene in one minute and any fire […]

The FAA on Tuesday announced an end to its four-year moratorium on considering new petitions to conduct “living history flight experiences” in historic aircraft, and detailed the procedures for requesting an exemption. Lifting of the moratorium means new applications can be finalized that would allow flight experiences in airplanes such as World War II warbirds, […]

Boeing says the world will need more than half a million pilots over the next 20 years and it’s ramping up its efforts to fill the training gap. At a news conference at EAA AirVenture, Sherry Carbary, VP of Boeing Flight Services, said aerospace will generate $5.6 trillion in revenues in that time as more […]

Flight Design is moving along with its work on its four-seat aircraft, the C4, company leaders said at EAA AirVenture on Tuesday. Since the first flight,in April, the proof-of-concept aircraft has flown several more times, performing tests at weights up to 2,640 pounds gross. The aircraft has demonstrated a rate of climb of more than […]

Every year, the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association polls its 800 members to choose a winner of the President’s Award, and this year the honor went posthumously to Jeremy Monnett, the CEO of Sonex, who died in a plane crash last month. The award, which was announced by LAMA President Dan Johnson Tuesday morning at EAA […]

Italian aircraft maker Tecnam announced this week its single-engine P2010 is nearing FAA certification. The four-place, high-wing airplane first flew in 2012 and received its European certification in September 2014. According to the company, it’s the first four-place single-engine with the high-wing configuration to be certified in recent decades. More than 25 of the airplanes […]

The IMC Club, which has been growing with chapters across the country and the world since its launch about five years ago, may become an official EAA program, the two organizations announced this week at EAA AirVenture. “Our discussions with the IMC Club began as all of us looked for a way to give long-term […]

Five sets of kit wings under assembly on the AirVenture grounds this week will go to five EAA chapters across North America after they’re completed. The wing-building program, Give Flight, partners EAA with three kitplane makers – Sonex Aircraft, Van’s Aircraft and Zenith Aircraft, along with Aircraft Spruce and Specialty, which is donating tools for […]

For at least a year, Rotax has been hinting at a new higher horsepower engine and on Tuesday at AirVenture, it delivered. The new, 135-hp turbocharged 915 iS is a follow-up to the 912 iS introduced in 2012. Although the new engine shares similarities with the 912 iS, it has a reinforced crankshaft, newly designed […]