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In its second-quarter general aviation aircraft shipment report, released this week at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, GAMA said shipments increased 4.8 percent to 1,110 units, and billings rose 4.5 percent, to $10.9 billion, compared to the same period last year. “Deliveries of turboprops this quarter were flat, but the encouraging numbers in the piston airplane […]

A notice of proposed rulemaking to change the third-class medical rules for pilots will be published by the end of this year, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta told a forum crowd at EAA AirVenture on Thursday. He said he has already reviewed and signed a draft of the proposal, which now is going through an executive […]

As of Friday morning there was still a steady stream of AirVenture visitors coming to the pavilion where volunteers are determined to assemble and taxi test a Zenith CH 750 kitplane before the convention wraps up on Sunday. Nick Heintz of Zenith Aircraft said that assembly is on schedule: The panel has been installed and […]

The pilot who died on Thursday from his injuries in the crash of a Breezy aircraft at Oshkosh has been identified as James Oeffinger, 75, of Versailles, Kentucky. His passenger, Jennifer Woloszyk, 21, of Elmhurst, Illinois, remains in serious condition. The crash of the custom-built airplane occurred at 9 a.m. on Thursday while attempting to […]

Adept Airmotive says it’s about to embark on a certification plan for its V-6 engine, which it’s showing in the AirVenture Innovation Center at Oshkosh this week. “The certification timeline for us is roughly two years and we hope to have the first certified aircraft out in 2017,” said Adept Airmotive’s Richard Schulz, in this […]

NTSB Board member Earl Weener sat outside at a caf at AirVenture with AVwebs Rick Durden to talk about what the NTSB does, his background in aviation and some of his thoughts on improving aviation safety. Weener holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, one of three degrees he earned at that institution while […]

A Mooney M-20L crashed in the parking lot of a shopping center in San Diego on Wednesday, after clipping the top of a Target store. The single passenger, an 80-year-old woman, was killed, and the pilot, age 52, was seriously hurt but is expected to survive, according to local officials. The airplane caught fire, but […]

The FAA said on Thursday it will revise the rules that govern helicopter certification, Parts 27 and 29, in a way similar to the effort now underway to revise Part 23 for airplanes. Part 27 addresses certification for rotorcraft weighing 7,000 pounds or less with nine passenger seats or less; anything larger falls under Part […]

Kitplanes magazine has introduced a monthly online newsletter aimed at those thinking about building or buying a homebuilt aircraft. The Homebuilders’ Portal will assemble archival material from 30 years of Kitplanes articles and columns and organize them into themes for each month’s issue. Editor Louise Hose said the idea is to give prospective entrants to […]

The first thing this morning, we visited the One Day Wonder pavilion in the middle of AirVenture 2014 and checked on the project to build and do initial taxi testing of a Zenith CH 750 kitplane before the convention wraps up Sunday afternoon. Charlie Becker, EAAs manager of homebuilt programs, told us that assembly is […]