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click for larger image Piper Aircraft says it’s going back to its roots with a Czech-built light sport aircraft it’s calling the PiperSport. In its first appearance at the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Fla. today, the company unveiled the aircraft, which was previously sold as a SportCruiser by Czech Sport Aircraft. The two […]

With continuing aftershocks and seemingly endless misery to cope with, responders and residents in Haiti face overwhelming challenges, and general aviation is stepping up to help ease that burden. While access is still limited at the main airport at Port au Prince, some smaller outlying fields are now open and GA pilots are delivering supplies […]

Visitors to the Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Fla., this week will find plenty of new products to look at, climb into, salivate over, and even go flying in. American Legend Aircraft Co. will be there with their new Legend AmphibCub, which started deliveries just last week. With aluminum floats, Garmin avionics, and a useful […]

It’s the first general aviation show of the year, so lots of eyes are on the sixth annual Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Fla., this week, hoping to get a sense of how 2010 will go. The last two months of 2009 were unexpectedly slow, Dan Johnson, president of the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association, told […]

The Garmin folks are at the Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Fla., this week with two announcements — add-on capabilities for the G3X glass panel that was introduced last year, and a new app for the iPhone that overlays your flight route directly onto weather information. Users of the G3X now can add an engine […]

The wreck has been stripped of its engines, and it’s a bit the worse for wear, with extensive water damage and impact damage to the underside, but the remains of the Airbus A320 that was made famous in last year’s Hudson ditching are about to go on the auction block. Interested parties can contact Chartis […]

Cessna is telling 162 Skycatcher position holders that their order will be delayed six to 10 months because of design changes that resulted from the flight test program. “We did find a few things during our flight tests,” Cessna spokesman Doug Oliver told AVweb. Most of the changes were needed to fix spin-recovery issues. Cessna […]

Two big aviation events are coming up on the calendar — the Singapore Airshow, Feb. 2 to 7, is the biggest show of its kind in Asia, and this week the first Bahrain International Airshow launches. The three-day Bahrain show is produced by the same folks who put on the well-known Farnborough event in Great […]

Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner has reached the end of its initial airworthiness test phase, the company said last week, which means more crew members and engineers now can fly in the cabin and additional aircraft will be added to the program. “This is an important step forward,” said Scott Fancher, general manager of the 787 program […]

The aircraft was registered to Mitts Corp., of Gainseville, and was approaching Lorain County Airport in Elyria, Ohio, when it went down. It’s not clear what stage of flight it was in. On board and believed dead were two pilots and two passengers. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries issued a statement within hours of the crash, pointing […]