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A twin-engine Swearingen Merlin III that crashed last week in the mountains near Vancouver may have broken up in flight, officials have said. The aircraft, which was carrying cargo, was flown by a two-pilot crew. “The radar track showed a very steep descent,” Bill Yearwood, an investigator with Canada’s Transportation Safety Board, told reporters last […]

Superior Air Parts says it will launch a full line of diesel aircraft engines starting with a 100-horsepower unit aimed at the LSA market and scaling up to as much as 600 horsepower. In a news conference at Sun ‘n Fun, company representatives said they acquired the rights to a liquid-cooled two-stroke diesel design developed […]

The FAA has published a list of 736 NDB and VOR/DME instrument approaches (PDF) it wants to shut down starting this year as it moves to satellite-based navigation. In a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) published April 13 the agency says the approaches facing the axe are “redundant or underutilized” based on criteria it established […]

The pilot of a new Mooney Acclaim with only a few hours on the airframe escaped serious injury Monday afternoon when the aircraft lost power and crashed during a landing attempt at Lakeland Linder Airport. Mooney COO Tom Bowen told AVweb Monday evening that the aircraft was completed during the past month and had been […]

Aviators headed to Sun ‘n Fun in Lakeland, Florida, this week can expect all the usual … daily airshows, thousands of airplanes to look at, forums and workshops, tents and hangars filled with new technology to buy … but they’ll also find an expanded focus on education and careers. The second-annual career fair is sold […]

Competition in ADS-B is clearly heating up and anyone looking for discounts on mandate-ready equipment will find them at Sun ‘n Fun from at least one vendor. Aspen Avionics announced today that it’s reducing the price on two of its ADS-B products, the ATX100 and ATX100G. The ATX100, which provides ADS-B In and Out capability […]

The idea of a nationwide aircraft rental network has faced significant headwinds in the past, but the latest iteration of it, OpenAirplane, appears to be gaining traction. At Sun ‘n Fun this week, OpenAirplane’s Rod Rakic told AVweb that the network of participating rental operators continues to grow and now totals 83. Rakic said OpenAirplane, […]

With almost 34,000 visitors from 60 countries, officials at Aero Friedrichshafen said attendance showed a “marked increase” over previous years. “International visitors in particular generated strong momentum for the aviation show,” according to the news release sent out on Monday. The number of exhibitors, 645 from 38 countries, and the number of new products presented, […]

The Royal Canadian Air Force’s Snowbirds air demonstration team has taken remote camera video to a new level with their “Tank Cam.” The team, officially 431 Air Demonstration Squadron, has mounted a gimbaled, remote-controlled plexiglass-protected camera to the back of the small external centerline fuel tank on the team lead’s aircraft. We’ll let you judge […]

The FAA has told its field inspectors that a video on the Internet is not enough to prove that someone has violated its rules against commercial operation of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). In a notice (PDF)to its enforcement personnel, the agency says that while video that appears to have been shot from a UAS might […]