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The FAA says if airlines get a break on the timing of ADS-B compliance, it won’t spread to GA. In a statement issued to AVweb late Thursday, the agency confirmed it’s considering an application from Airlines for America (A4A) to allow an extra five years for full compliance by the operators of up to 6,000 […]

The FAA may be considering some kind of extension on the 2020 deadline for equipage with ADS-B-Out but it’s not been confirmed by the FAA whether it’s in fact being considered and what form it might take. If some relief is in the works, it will be at the request of the airlines. Aviation Week […]

The Super Legend HP, the new top-of-the-line model for American Legend’s stable of Cub aircraft, now is available with a 180-hp Titan O-340 engine, the company said on Tuesday. The engine expands the Cub’s performance, producing a ground roll on takeoff of 35 feet and climbout at 2,000 feet per minute. Distance to clear a […]

Cessna’s admission this week that it now has no definite timeline for its diesel 182 JT-A invites speculation. Or maybe I’m the only one who can’t resist asking what’s going on in Wichita. Earlier this week, we got an email from a reader trying to snag some hangar space at Independence, Kansas, where Cessna builds […]

Pawing back through the archives, I can confidently declare that 2002 was the summer of the VLJ—the very light jet. Some were practically swooning over the notion of sub-$1 million jets and there was a thundering herd of them, led by the rock star of VLJs, the Eclipse. During a round of interviewing that year […]

Is nosewheel shimmy bugging you? It’s a continuing problem for many aircraft owners. With the following, we offer suggestions to minimize the effects of, or even solve this annoying problem. In order to correct nose wheel shimmy problems we must understand what causes the nose wheel to shimmy in the first place. Without getting too […]

Continental Motors Group said today that it will purchase Danbury Aerospace, a group of aviation manufacturing companies that includes Engine Components International, the San Antonio, Texas-based manufacturer of PMA engine parts. Danbury is a privately held company and the dollar amount of the deal wasn’t disclosed by Continental. Because Continental is itself owned by the […]

At the Electric Aircraft Symposium in Santa Rosa, California, on Saturday, I scribbled in my notebook a wry comment from Tine Tomazic of Pipistrel Aircraft, the innovative Slovenian company that’s an unabashed supporter—and maker—of electric airplanes. Tomazic said he hoped the era of electric conversions was coming to an end and he pointedly noted that […]

Vitatoe Aviation’s turbonormalized P210 conversion may just have turned the Cessna P210 into the airplane it should have been all along. I’ve liked the P210 ever since I first flew it in 1979. It’s fast, carries a good load, has honest handling and the pressurization spoiled me. However, the first part of any flight always […]

With few moving parts compared to an aircraft piston engine, electric motors are thought to be far more reliable. But when the systems that control them are factored in, the reliability picture is far less rosy, according to Mike Ricci, who says electric propulsion in general has some distance to cover before it will be […]