Aircraft Upgrades

Continental Motors is apparently wasting little time in investing in improvements to increase TBRs and gearbox replacement intervals on the Centurion diesel line. With its deal to acquire the former assets of Thielert Aircraft Engines not even two weeks old, Continental said this week at AirVenture that it will field an improved gearbox for the […]

What can you do to bring the venerable C-172 to an even wider audience at a more affordable price? If you’re Redbird (the simulator folks), you consider putting a new Continental turbodiesel into it and completely retrofit the panel to create a Redhawk — which may be coming soon to a flight school near you. […]

With the ink barely dry on Continentals agreement to buy Thielert Aircraft Engines, the company already has one customer commitment from an unlikely quarter: Redbird Simulations. On Sunday at AirVenture, Redbird announced a new initiative to convert Cessna Skyhawks to diesel power using Continentals 135-hp Centurion 2.0. The project is called Redhawk and will be […]

Levil Technology is well known for its line of portable ADS-B products. At AirVenture 2013, they introduced a new model called the iLevil AW, and in this AVweb Product Minute, Ananda Leon describes the details and demonstrates some cool new apps. view on YouTube

Garmin brought their new GTR200 communications radio to AirVenture 2013. In this AVweb Product Minute video, Garmin’s Jim Alpiser gives a tour of the product that’s designed for LSA and experimental aircraft. view on YouTube

At AirVenture 2013, AVweb sponsor Sagetech was showing off some improvements to its Clarity ADS-B product. view on YouTube

If Continental Motors ever had any doubts about the aerodiesel market, it erased them in the stroke of a pen with the companys acquisition of the bankrupt assets of Thielert aircraft Engines GmbH. Despite a rocky ending for Thielert culminating in the jailing of its founder, Thielert (and Diamond) put aircraft diesels on the map […]

Levil Technology is out with a new portable ADS-B unit that included air data input, making it the industry’s first portable ADAHRS unit. It sell for $1,395. AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli recently flew it in his Cub. view on YouTube

New legislation passed through the House Tuesday (by a 411-0 vote) calling for a restructuring of the FAA’s Part 23 certification requirements for the purpose of expediting approvals for safety improvements. The Small Airplane Revitalization Act aims to remove bureaucratic barriers to evolutionary progress within the industry (for the introduction of new designs and the […]

The assets of Precision Airmotive have been acquired but it will continue under the same name and maintain its production facilities in Marysville, Wash. The company, which makes aircraft fuel injection systems, has been purchased by Turn and Bank Holdings, of North Carolina. Precision Airmotive filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last December citing product liability […]