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Redbird Skyport’s unique offer to sell avgas at $1 a gallon for the month of October already has drawn almost 500 takers, company spokesman Josh Harnagel told AVweb on Tuesday. “We’ve been a little busier than even we expected,” Harnagel said. Every pilot who flies in to the field at San Marcos, Texas, is asked […]

In a letter sent to members of Congress and President Obama, NBAA said on Tuesday the ongoing federal shutdown has “grave repercussions” on the general aviation industry, forcing a “halt in the purchase, sale and production of all new general aviation airplane parts or aircraft.” NBAA says none of those things can occur without the […]

For 13 years, a team of warbird enthusiasts in Melbourne, Australia, has been trying to learn the fate of dozens of Spitfires abandoned at a military airfield after World War II — according to local legend, some of the airplanes may have been buried in fields or hidden in mineshafts to save them from being […]

AOPA says it will file its formal response Monday to a $66 million patent infringement suit launched by SD Holdings LLC, a Washington company that holds two patents on online flight planning tools. As we reported extensively in 2010 and 2011, the patents were awarded to Kyle Everson and Roger Stenbock, who at the time […]

Compared to two years ago, aircraft owners and operators say theyre more confident in future supplies of 100-octane gasoline of some kind-no thanks to the FAA-and fewer owners are delaying purchases or upgrades due to worries about fuel supplies. Nonetheless, many owners also report theyre flying fewer hours, due in part to the cost of […]

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has agreed by consensus to address the contribution aviation makes to climate change by 2016. However, the somewhat nebulous resolution, adopted in the closing hours of the ICAO’s once-every-three-years general assembly in Montreal last week, apparently doesn’t guarantee that any concrete measures will result, nor does it satisfy the […]

Aircraft sales can’t be completed during the government’s partial shutdown because the FAA’s registry office is not considered an essential function and has been closed, the Wichita Eagle reported Friday. The Eagle says the General Aircraft Manufacturers Association (GAMA) has polled its members and deliveries of 12 new airplanes scheduled for the first two days […]

Personal Electronic Devices (PEDs) are safe for use in all phases of flight on almost all aircraft, according to information soon to be released by an FAA advisory committee and made available to The Wall Street Journal. The committee’s conclusions reportedly include scores of recommendations that include lifting current restrictions on WiFi use below 10,000 […]

Dynon has introduced the D2, a small portable MEMS-based AHRS true artificial horizon with WiFi suitable for use by all pilots but not certified for aircraft flown outside of the experimental and light sport categories. The WiFi connectivity can be used to transmit real-time attitude, GPS ground speed, G’s, track, and altitude to an aviation […]

Furlough of FAA aviation safety inspectors and NTSB accident investigators may put the country in default of its obligations under an aviation treaty that sets standards for safety for ICAO, former FAA lawyer Loretta Alkalay told Forbes magazine this week. The U.S. failure to approve a federal budget and subsequent partial government shutdown has furloughed […]